LAB NO.

14 08/11/2022

DESIGN OF MICROWAVE COMPONENTS TO BE INTEGRATED IN A

TRASMITTER (OEL)
Lab outcomes:
After completing this lab, students will be able to;
 Design components required for a transmitter.
 Evaluate the scattering parameters of components to meet the desired specification.
Corresponding CLO and PLO:
 CLO-2, PLO-3 (Design and Development of Solutions)
Equipment:
Consider the block diagram of the microwave transmitter operating at 2 GHz shown in Figure
14.1. The transmitter consists of IF amplifier, mixer, local oscillator, filter, microwave amplifier,
matching network (MN) and antenna. The mixer generates the desired RF signal (at 2 GHz with
bandwidth 0.5 GHz) with unwanted harmonics. A bandpass filter is needed to suppress the
unwanted harmonics. Due to the loss of the filter, a microwave amplifier is required to boost the
signal before transmitting through antenna. The optimum load impedance (150+j15 Ω) of the
amplifier of the is shown in Figure 14.1, which needs to be matched with the input impedance of
antenna (75+j15 Ω).

Figure 14.1 Block diagram of the Transmitter operating at 2 GHz.

1) Design a bandpass filter operating at 2 GHz with a bandwidth of 0.5 GHz. The filter should be design using
microstrip transmission lines and it should be matched to 50 Ω at the input and output. The filter should
have rejection of at-least 30 dB at 1 GHz and 3 GHz. Moreover, the passband ripples should be under 0.1

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 dB. Obtain the layout of the filter and simulate its scattering parameters to verify that the desired
specifications are met.
2) Design a matching network to transform the optimum load impedance of the amplifier to the conjugate of
the input impedance of the antenna at 2 GHz, which will insure maximum power transfer from AMP to
antenna. The matching network network should be design using microstrip transmission lines. Obtain the
layout of the matching network and simulate its scattering parameters to verify that the desired
specifications are met.

Microstrip Transmission Line Characteristics

thickness, th = 1.575 mm, relative dielectric constant, ε r = 4.5, and the loss tangent, tanδ = 0.003.

Task 1:
First we make band pass filter using filter design in ads

Figure 14.2 Band pass filter design

Figure 14.3 schematic of band pass filter

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 Figure 14.4 result for s parameter for non micro strip circuit

Figure 14.5 micro strip band pass filter

Figure 14.6 micro strip band pass results

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Task 2:
For impedance matching we use smith chart of ads an obtain the circuit and tune to get desired
scattering parameters

Figure 14.7 impedance matching using smith chart using ads

Figure 14.8 matching circuit using smith chart

Figure 14.9 impedance matching result

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 Figure 14.10 impedance matching micro strip circuit

Figure 14.11 impedance matching micro strip circuit result

Observations:
Impedance matching is essential for transferring maximum power from the amplifier stages to
the load. Impedance matching is also a solution to reduce distortions and noise coupling in
amplifier stages. The low impedances in the load side draw excessive power from the active
devices to meet load requirements.

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Conclusion:

By using ADS we can easily match the amplifier and we can also make the matching network
and we can also transform the network in micro strip

References:

https://edadocs.software.keysight.com/display/ads2009/Introducing+the+Smith+Chart+Utility

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