T. LaRocca, Sai-Wang Tam, Daquan Huang, Qun Gu, E. Socher, W. Hant, Frank Chang
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Abstract
Digital control of the effective dielectric constant of a differential mode transmission line is shown up to 60GHz in standard CMOS technology. The effective dielectric constant is shown to increase from 5 to over 50 for the fixed artificial dielectric case. The digital controlled artificial dielectric transmission line (DiCAD) uses MOS switches to dynamically control the phase. DiCAD achieves 50% of the physically available tuning range with effective dielectric constants varying between 7 and 28. Measured results favorably agree with full-wave electromagnetic simulations.