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Design of 4-Pole Low Noise Active Bandpass Filter Improving Amplitude Flatness of Passband  

방인대 (삼성전자)
전영훈 (동국대학교 밀리미터파 신기술 연구센)
이재룡 (삼성전)
윤상원 (서강대학교 전자공학과)
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Abstract
An active capacitance circuit which employs series feedback network for the implement of negative resistance and low noise operation is analyzed in depth and its application to low noise active RF BPF's is discussed. Whereas many authors reported a lot of circuits that embody negative resistance circuit most of them have concerns for the equivalent resistance and reactance value at the center frequency. In this case, it could be possible to face a problem that the negative resistance circuit becomes unstable, or have poor flatness in passband because of insufficient forecast for the negative resistance values as the frequency goes higher or lower. In this paper, we extracted the exact equivalent values of this circuit and analyzed the RF characteristics with the varying the values of active devices and feedback circuits and presented the method that the flatness of passband can be improved. We have designed a 4-pole active BPF, which has the bandwidth of 60 ㎒, 0.67 ㏈ insertion loss, 0.3 ㏈ ripple, and noise figure of 3.0 ㏈ at 1.99 ㎓ band.
Keywords
Active Capacitance; Flatness of Passband; Negative Resistance; Filter Noise; Common-Source Series Feedback Circuits;
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