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2018-04-12
A Compact Ka-Band TDD Transceiver System Module with Attractive Temperature Characteristic
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Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, Vol. 83, 113-124, 2018
Abstract
This paper presents a Ka-band TDD transceiver system module for the secondary surveillance radar application with attractive temperature characteristic. Four multifunction chips and a MEMS filter are designed and fabricated in GaAs pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor (pHEMT) process and MEMS technology in this work, respectively. These multifunction chips and MEMS filter with some other commercial chips are assembled in a compact cavity to form the transceiver system. The temperature characteristics of the designed chips and the whole transceiver module are measured respectively in this work. Benefiting from the designed temperature compensation circuits on the chips, the transceiver is able to work from -55˚C to +75˚C with little performance fluctuation. The noise figure of the receiver is less than 3.7 dB in the 400 MHz working bandwidth. Its dynamic range is more than 59 dB with more than 23.9 dB power gain. The maximum output power of the transmitter is larger than 30.3 dBm. The system only has two input/output ports and one control bus, which is suitable for the large-scale system integration.
Citation
Yin Tian, Tao Dang, Guang-Ming Wang, Jie Yang, Wei Tong, Zhigang Wang, Yuehang Xu, Yu Cao, Yijun Chen, Lei Han, Dong Chen, and Yexi Song, "A Compact Ka-Band TDD Transceiver System Module with Attractive Temperature Characteristic," Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, Vol. 83, 113-124, 2018.
doi:10.2528/PIERC18020606
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