A VCO with Harmonic Suppressed and Output Power Improved Using Defected Ground Structure.pdfVIP

Active and Passive Elec. Comp., December 2003, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 205–211 A VCO WITH HARMONIC SUPPRESSED AND OUTPUT POWER IMPROVED USING DEFECTED GROUND STRUCTURE HAIWEN LIUa,b,*, XIAOWEI SUNb and ZHENGFAN LIa aDepartment of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200030, China; bShanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China (Received 14 January 2003; In final form 21 March 2003) In this paper, a novel defected ground structure (DGS) is proposed for suppressing harmonic and increasing the output power of a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) in microwave circuits. The DGS is formed with connecting in parallel two periodic structures which have different center frequencies (in a ratio of 2:3) of the stopband and provides the bandgap characteristic in certain frequency bands. Simulated and experimental results show that the microstrip line with DGS has a wide low-pass band for the fundamental frequency and a stopband for the second harmonic with good performance. To evaluate the effects of DGS on microwave VCOs, two GaAs field-effect transistor (FET) VCOs have been designed and fabricated. One of them has a 50 O microstrip line with DGS at the output section, while the other has only a 50 O straight line. Measured results show that DGS suppresses the second harmonic more than 20 dBm at the output and yields improved output power by 3–5%. Keywords: Voltage-controlled oscillator; Harmonic suppressed; Defected ground structure 1 INTRODUCTION Recently, there has been an increasing interest in studying the microstrip line with various periodic structures including photonic bandgap (PBG) [1–4] and defected ground structure (DGS) [5–9] in the design of microwave c