Application of Defected Ground Structures in MEMS Based Reflection Type RF Phase Shifter Using Ratrace Coupler

Avanish Bhadauria1, Sonia Sharma2

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Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI), (Council of scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Pilani -333031, INDIA

University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, INDIA Email:avanishbhadauria@yahoo.com

Phase shifters are important components in many microwave subsystems used for radar and communication. Current technology makes phase shifters very costly, and inhibits widespread adoption of devices such as phased-array antennas. There are several methods for designing digital phase shifters at microwave frequencies. Reflection type phase shifters are one of the commonly used phase shifters which are widely used due to its wide-band performance. These phase shifters are used to provide both large as well as small phase shifts. Such phase shifters have several advantages like low complexity, easy to control and fabricate. The reflection-type phase shifter utilizes a 3-dB hybrid coupler and a pair of reflective termination circuits with impedance transformers. This paper presents an application of Defected Ground Structures (DGS) in MEMS based reflection type RF phase shifter using coplanar rat race coupler. A reflection type RF phase shifter can be realized by making open and short creating by MEM switch fabricated at the end of its controlling port. The application of defected ground structure in such phase shifter leads to an improvement in the performance and size reduction. An electromagnetic simulation has been carried out to study the transmission behavior of proposed structure using IE3D software tool. The simulation results show that the size reduction and harmonic suppression can be achieved significantly using DGS in such phase shifters.

(a) (b) Fig 1: Schematic of (a) Reflection type phase shifter and (b) implementation of DGS

(a) (b) Simulated results (a) Reflection type phase shifter without DGS and (b) with DGS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The financial support from CSIR-EMPOWER is acknowledged.

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