Novel Electrically Tunable Microwave Solenoid Inductor and Compact Phase Shifter Utilizing Permaloy and PZT Thin Films

doi:10.1109/TMTT.2017.2731765

Title: Novel Electrically Tunable Microwave Solenoid Inductor and Compact Phase Shifter Utilizing Permaloy and PZT Thin Films

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A Permalloy (Py) thin film enabled tunable 3-D solenoid inductor is designed and fabricated. The special configuration of magnetic core is discussed and by selectively patterning Py thin film, the proposed tunable inductor can work at frequency up to several GHz range. The inductance of the solenoid inductor can be electrically tuned by dc current and the tunability is above 10%. Utilizing the implemented Py enabled tunable solenoid inductor and Lead Zirconate Titanate (PZT) thin film enabled metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor, a compact fully electrically tunable lumped elements phase shifter is achieved. The tunable phase shifter has both inductive and capacitive tunability and the dual tunability significantly improves the tuning range and design flexibility. Moreover, the dual tunability is able to retain the equivalent characteristic impedance of the device in the process of the phase being tuned. Here, the phase of the device can be tuned by fully electrical methods and when dc current and dc voltage are provided, the length normalized phase tunability is up to 210°/cm

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; Jiang, Wei ^[1] ; Divan, Ralu ^[2] ; Rosenmann, Daniel ^[2] ; Ocola, Leonidas E. ^[2] ; Peng, Yujia ^[1] ; Wang, Guoan ^[1]

Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)

Publication Date:: 2017-08-03

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 65; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 0018-9480

Publisher:: IEEE

Research Org:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Org:: National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; dual tunability; lead zirconate titanate; PZT; permalloy (Py); phase shifter; solenoid inductor

OSTI Identifier:: 1402468


                    Wang, Tengxing, Jiang, Wei, Divan, Ralu, Rosenmann, Daniel, Ocola, Leonidas E., Peng, Yujia, and Wang, Guoan. Novel Electrically Tunable Microwave Solenoid Inductor and Compact Phase Shifter Utilizing Permaloy and PZT Thin Films.  United States: N. p.,  
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                    Wang, Tengxing, Jiang, Wei, Divan, Ralu, Rosenmann, Daniel, Ocola, Leonidas E., Peng, Yujia, & Wang, Guoan. Novel Electrically Tunable Microwave Solenoid Inductor and Compact Phase Shifter Utilizing Permaloy and PZT Thin Films.  United States.  doi:10.1109/TMTT.2017.2731765.

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                    Wang, Tengxing, Jiang, Wei, Divan, Ralu, Rosenmann, Daniel, Ocola, Leonidas E., Peng, Yujia, and Wang, Guoan. 2017.  
        "Novel Electrically Tunable Microwave Solenoid Inductor and Compact Phase Shifter Utilizing Permaloy and PZT Thin Films".  United States.  
        doi:10.1109/TMTT.2017.2731765.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1402468.

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@article{osti_1402468,

  title        = {Novel Electrically Tunable Microwave Solenoid Inductor and Compact Phase Shifter Utilizing Permaloy and PZT Thin Films},

  author       = {Wang, Tengxing and Jiang, Wei and Divan, Ralu and Rosenmann, Daniel and Ocola, Leonidas E. and Peng, Yujia and Wang, Guoan},

  abstractNote = {A Permalloy (Py) thin film enabled tunable 3-D solenoid inductor is designed and fabricated. The special configuration of magnetic core is discussed and by selectively patterning Py thin film, the proposed tunable inductor can work at frequency up to several GHz range. The inductance of the solenoid inductor can be electrically tuned by dc current and the tunability is above 10%. Utilizing the implemented Py enabled tunable solenoid inductor and Lead Zirconate Titanate (PZT) thin film enabled metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor, a compact fully electrically tunable lumped elements phase shifter is achieved. The tunable phase shifter has both inductive and capacitive tunability and the dual tunability significantly improves the tuning range and design flexibility. Moreover, the dual tunability is able to retain the equivalent characteristic impedance of the device in the process of the phase being tuned. Here, the phase of the device can be tuned by fully electrical methods and when dc current and dc voltage are provided, the length normalized phase tunability is up to 210°/cm},

  doi          = {10.1109/TMTT.2017.2731765},

  journal      = {IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques},

  number       = 10,

  volume       = 65,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2017},

  month        = {8}

}

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