Designing YIG drivers
Abstract
Design aspects of a linear, stabilized voltage to current transducer for driving YIG tuned microwave devices are analysed. Typical circuits with OP AMP interfacial input and bipolar/VMOS current amplifier outputs are sketched. Attention is drawn to such circuit refinements as (1) augmenting differentiator for minimising sweep delay; (2) linearizer to compensate for nonlinearity due to core saturation; and (3) low noise, low drift and minimal voltage pushing options.
- Publication:
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Defense Science Journal
- Pub Date:
- July 1982
- Bibcode:
- 1982DSJ....32..189N
- Keywords:
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- Amplifier Design;
- Microwave Circuits;
- Yttrium-Iron Garnet;
- Circuit Diagrams;
- Field Effect Transistors;
- Metal Oxide Semiconductors;
- Nonlinearity;
- Thermal Stability;
- V Grooves;
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering