Phase shifter

Abstract

Abstract PURPOSE:To obtain a variable phase shifter circuit comprising a GaAs monolithic IC by forming an FET circuit which serves equivalently as a resistor and a capacitor on a GaAs substrate and changing the gate voltage of the FET serving as the resistor. CONSTITUTION:A differential amplifier is constituted of FETs 1-4, a terminal (a) is connected to a gate (c) of an output FET via the FET6 serving equivalently as the resistor and a terminal (b) is connected thereto via the FETs 7, 8 serving equivalently as the capacitors to constitute a phase shifter circuit equivalently comprising the resistor and the capacitors. A control voltage Vcont is applied to a gate of the FET6 serving equivalently as the resistor to control the resistance value. Since the FET circuit is constituted on the GaAs substrate, the phase shifter circuit comprising a monolithic IC circuit possible for the use in the microwave millimeter wave band is realized.

Inventors

• 👤 Yukio Takeda
• 👤 幸雄 武田
• 👤 Masafumi Shigaki
• 👤 雅文 志垣
• 👤 Yoshimasa Ohora
• 👤 喜正 大洞

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