Design of Voltage control Oscillator using Nonlinear Composite Right/Left-Handed Transmission Line

• Main Authors: H. J. El-Khozondar, M. Abu-Marasa, R. J. El-Khozondar, M. Elbahri, S. Zouhdi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Advanced Electromagnetics 2016-03-01
• Series: Advanced Electromagnetics
• Subjects: VCO; metamaterials
• Online Access: https://aemjournal.org/index.php/AEM/article/view/342

In the present work, we propose a voltage control oscillator (VCO) at high frequency consists of nonlinear composite right/left-handed transmission line (CRLH-TL) loaded with Resonant Tunneling Diode (RTD). We designed three prototype device examples. The first one consists of one cell with short circuit at the beginning of the cell between ground and patch, and 50 Ω load resistance were added at the end of the cell between ground and patch. The second one is similar to the first prototype but with open circuit at the beginning of the cell instated of short circuit. The third prototype consists of one cell with two 50 Ω load resistances added between ground and patch at the beginning and at the end of the cell. The proposed VCO models are capable of generating oscillations at frequencies between 4.87- 14.9 GHz. In our simulations, we used OrCAD and ADS software to analyze the proposed circuit.