Abstract: A phase shifter and a method of making a phase shifter are disclosed herein. The phase shifter may include a housing, a dielectric, an electrode, and a liquid crystal layer. The housing includes first, second, third, and fourth conductive walls, each conductive wall being opposite one of the other walls. The dielectric is situated within the housing and defines a compartment within the housing. The electrode is aligned with the compartment. The liquid crystal layer fills the space of the compartment. A bias line is coupled to the electrode. The phase shifter may be integrated with as substrate integrated waveguide.

Abstract: A method and apparatus forming an efficient and compact waveguide feed with all components for processing signals in multi-frequency band antenna feeds with single/dual linear/circular polarizations with/without tracking. This layout results in a very compact feed, which has excellent electrical characteristics, is mechanically robust, eliminates flange connections between components, and is very cost effective. The new layout eliminates the dummy ports and bends at least one filter element is bent to an acute angle, thereby enabling a high density packaging of the microwave feed network; and wherein a plurality of single sided corrugations are located along the bent filter element. In this design high density arrays of feeds can be realized for satellite communication.

Abstract: Metallization layer structures for reduced changes in radio frequency characteristics due to registration error and associated methods are provided herein. An example resonator includes a first conductive layer defining an error limiting feature and a second conductive layer. The resonator further includes at least one communication feature configured to electrically couple the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer at a communication position. The error limiting feature is configured to reduce changes in radio frequency characteristics of the resonator due to registration error. Methods of manufacturing resonators are also provided herein.

Abstract: An information handling system includes a stripline transmission line, the stripline transmission line including a plurality of conductors, each one of the conductors having a mitigation conductor section and a non-mitigation conductor section. The mitigation conductor section includes a first linear section having a first side surface and a second side surface, and a plurality of substantially semi-circular stubs extending from the first side surface of the first liner section. The mitigation conductor section is configured to mitigate near end cross talk between the mitigation conductor section and adjacent conductors.

Abstract: Embodiments of a Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) resonator in which an outer region of the BAW resonator is engineered in such a manner that lateral leakage of mechanical energy from an active region of the BAW resonator is reduced, and methods of fabrication thereof, are disclosed. In some embodiments, a BAW resonator includes a piezoelectric layer, a first electrode on a first surface of the piezoelectric layer, a second electrode on a second surface of the piezoelectric layer opposite the first electrode, and a passivation layer on a surface of the second electrode opposite the piezoelectric layer, the passivation layer having a thickness (TPA). The BAW resonator also includes a material on the second surface of the piezoelectric layer adjacent to the second electrode in an outer region of the BAW resonator. The additional material has a thickness that is n times the thickness (TPA) of the passivation layer.

Abstract: A circuit for blocking undesired input direct current of AC-coupled broadband circuits. The circuit includes a capacitor coupled to an input port and a common node. The input port receives a RF input signal. Additionally, the circuit includes a current source supplying a DC current to the common node leading a bias current to an output port. Further, the circuit includes a variable voltage source through an internal load and a close loop with an application circuit having an input load coupled to the output port to determine various bias voltages to control the bias current at the output port in association with a RF output signal that is substantially free of any input direct current originated from the RF input signal and is associated with an inherent low cut-off frequency independent of the various bias voltages.

Abstract: A power splitter comprises at least two mutually parallel lateral waveguides with rectangular cross-section and a transverse waveguide with rectangular cross-section comprising two opposite ends respectively connected to the two lateral waveguides. The two lateral waveguides are oriented along a direction Y and mounted flat with their large side parallel to a plane XY, the transverse waveguide is oriented along a direction X perpendicular to the direction Y and mounted edgewise with its small side parallel to the plane XY, and each lateral waveguide is coupled to the transverse waveguide by a tee coupler in the E-plane with embedded junction, the two ends of the transverse waveguide being respectively embedded in each lateral waveguide, at the center of the said respective lateral waveguide.

Abstract: An EMI filter network may be used to provide interference filtering for multiple loads (referred to collectively as a dynamic load). In one aspect, the EMI filter network includes electrical switches that establish different configurations or arrangements of passive circuit elements (e.g., inductors and capacitors) where each configuration generates a different filter value. The EMI filter network may be communicatively coupled to a controller which changes the configuration of the EMI filter network using the switches in response to the dynamic load changing operational states. For example, each configuration of the EMI filter network may correspond to one of the operational states of the dynamic load. Thus, as the operational state of the dynamic load changes—e.g., different motors become operational—the controller alters the configuration of the EMI filter network to provide a filter value that corresponds to the current operational state of the dynamic load.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to the field of amplifiers for multi-level optical communication and more particularly to techniques for trans-impedance amplifiers (TIA) with gain control. The claimed embodiments address the problem of implementing a low cost TIA that exhibits high linearity, low noise, low power, and wide bandwidth. More specifically, some claims are directed to approaches for providing TIA gain control using a plurality of inverter-based replica gain control cells controlled by a feedback loop to manage the current into the amplifying output stage and thereby the TIA output voltage.

Abstract: The present application relates to a harmonic oscillator. The harmonic oscillator includes a dielectric body and at least one responding unit attached onto a surface of the dielectric body, where the responding unit is a conductive structure having a geometrical pattern. The application further relates to a cavity filter having the harmonic oscillator and an electromagnetic wave device. By using the harmonic oscillator in the application, a permittivity can be effectively increased and a resonance frequency of a cavity filter can be decreased, thereby implementing miniaturization. Moreover, for an electromagnetic wave in a TM mode, a frequency can be decreased and an electromagnetic loss is not affected.

Abstract: An acoustic wave filter includes series resonators and parallel resonators that have a piezoelectric film on an identical substrate and have a lower electrode and an upper electrode, wherein: one of the series resonators and the parallel resonators have a temperature compensation film on a face of the lower electrode or the upper electrode that is opposite to the piezoelectric film in a resonance region, the compensation film having an elastic constant of a temperature coefficient of which sign is opposite to a sign of a temperature coefficient of an elastic constant of the piezoelectric film; and the other have an added film on the same side as the temperature compensation film on the lower electrode side or the upper electrode side compared to the piezoelectric film in the resonance region in the one of the series resonators and the parallel resonators.

Abstract: A power combiner has at least two uncommon ports and at least one common port. Isolation between the uncommon ports over a broad band is achieved through a lossy band response circuit having a phase and amplitude response effective to compensate for changes in phase and amplitude between the uncommon ports with change in frequency of an input signal. The lossy band response circuit may have a resistance approximating a resistance effective to isolate the uncommon ports over a bandwidth at a center frequency. A coupler may likewise increase the band for which an input port is isolated from the isolated port by coupling a lossy circuit between the input port and isolated port. The lossy circuit may be embodied as a lossy band response circuit.

Abstract: A resonant circuit comprises an input terminal and an output terminal and at least: a group of N resonators, where N?1, the resonators having the same resonance frequency and the same antiresonance frequency; a first and a second impedance matching element having a non-zero reactance, the first element being in series with the group of resonators, and the second element being in parallel with the group of resonators, the resonant circuit comprising: first means for controlling the group of resonators, enabling the static capacitance of the group to be fixed at a first value; second control means, enabling the impedance of the first impedance matching element and that of the second element to be fixed at second values; the first and second values being such that the triplet of values composed of the static capacitance of the group, the impedance of the first element, and the impedance of the second element can be used to determine the following triplet of parameters: the characteristic impedance Zc of the ass

Abstract: One end of a bus bar for leading an output voltage output from a switching power supply to the outside is a connection terminal connected to an output end associated with the switching power supply, while the other end is an output terminal VO. A ferrite core has a through-hole through which the bus bar is disposed. Electromagnetic coupling from the switching power supply is suppressed between the output terminal VO of the bus bar and at least a part of the ferrite core on the output terminal VO side along the bus bar. In this way, electromagnetic coupling of a part of a choke coil including the ferrite core with the bus bar penetrating therethrough on the output terminal VO side and the switching power supply is suppressed, whereby propagation of noise to the output terminal VO is suppressed.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a 1×2 waveguide-based power divider. The 1×2 waveguide-based power divider includes a 1×2 waveguide coupler, two primary transmission lines, two three-port waveguide couplers, and a series. The series includes one or more secondary transmission lines. Each primary transmission line connects a corresponding output of the 1×2 waveguide coupler to a first port of a corresponding one of the three-port waveguide couplers. The series connects a second ports of the three-port waveguide couplers.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to realize a loop through circuit, in an active connector, securely having a preferable mismatching attenuation characteristic and having a preferable signal transmission characteristic, with respect to an input port, an output port, and an internal port, without providing a special circuit outside the connector. A connector base part has the input port inputting an external signal, the output port outputting a loop through signal, and the internal port outputting a signal into a device. First and second matching circuits, an equalizer circuit, a dividing circuit, and a driving circuit are stored in the connector base part. The matching circuit is supplied with an external signal input from the input port. The dividing circuit divides a signal to be input to generate first and second divided signals, and outputs them to the internal port and the output port. The equalizer circuit compensates for a frequency characteristic and/or loss of a signal to be input.

Abstract: An impedance matching device is presented. The device includes an input terminal configured to receive a radio frequency signal, and an output terminal configured to couple to an amplifier. The device includes an impedance prematch network coupled to the input terminal and the output terminal. The impedance prematch network includes a first inductor, such as a first wire bond. The device includes a resonator structure including a second inductor, such as a wire bond, inductively coupled to the first inductor.

Abstract: A transmission line is provided with a line portion with a first relative permittivity which is composed of a first dielectric and a conductor filler dispersed in the first dielectric, and a surrounding dielectric portion composed of a second dielectric with a second relative permittivity, wherein, the surrounding dielectric portion exists around the line portion in a cross section perpendicular to a direction in which electromagnetic waves transmit in the line portion, the first relative permittivity is 600 or more, and the second relative permittivity is smaller than the first relative permittivity. An electronic component has the transmission line. Further, an electronic component is provided with a resonator having a resonant frequency ranging from 1 GHz to 10 GHz, wherein, the resonator is formed by using the transmission line.

Abstract: RF multiplexer circuitry includes a first signal path coupled between a first intermediate node and a common node, a second signal path coupled between a second intermediate node and the common node, first resonator circuitry coupled between the first signal path and ground, and second resonator circuitry coupled between the second signal path and ground. The first resonator circuitry is configured to allow signals within a first frequency pass band to pass between the first intermediate node and the common node, while attenuating signals outside of the first frequency pass band. The first resonator circuitry includes a first LC resonator. The second resonator circuitry is configured to allow signals within a second frequency pass band to pass between the second intermediate node and the common node, while attenuating signals outside of the second frequency pass band.

Abstract: A laterally coupled resonator filter device includes a bottom electrode, a piezoelectric layer disposed on the bottom electrode, and a top contour electrode disposed on the piezoelectric layer. The top contour electrode includes first and second top comb electrodes. The first top comb electrode include a first top bus bar and multiple first top fingers extending in a first direction from the first top bus bar. The second top comb electrode includes a second top bus bar and multiple second top fingers extending in a second direction from the second top bus bar, the second direction being substantially opposite to the first direction such that the first and second top fingers form a top interleaving pattern providing an acoustic filter having an apodized shape.