IEEE Access (Jan 2021)

Innovative Transient Study of Tri-Bandpass Negative Group Delay Applied to Microstrip Barcode-Circuit

  • Lili Wu,
  • Fayu Wan,
  • Rym Assila Belhadj Mefteh,
  • Remy Vauche,
  • George Chan,
  • Xiang Zhou,
  • Fayrouz Haddad,
  • Wenceslas Rahajandraibe,
  • Blaise Ravelo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3105040
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9
pp. 115030 – 115041

Abstract

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A transient study of bandpass (BP) negative group delay (NGD) function is devoted in this paper. The transient analysis is applied to an original topology of NGD barcode-shape microstrip circuit. The performed investigation explains how to realize the transient analysis of tri-band NGD circuit. The time-domain (TD) parametrization of the test is established from the BP-NGD specifications of the circuit under test (CUT) based on the S-parameter model. The input signal is a Gaussian pulse characterized in function of the NGD bandwidth (BW) and center frequency. The feasibility of the BP-NGD transient study is illustrated with experimentation based on ultra-wide band (UWB) pulse generator. As proof-of-concept, barcode NGD circuit exhibiting tri-band NGD value-center frequency-bandwidth, (−5.9 ns, 2.128 GHz, 20 MHz), (−7.4 ns, 2.3 GHz, 14 MHz) and (−4.8 ns, 2.42 GHz, 14 MHz) has been fabricated and tested. The transient simulations and experiences confirm that the output signal envelopes of the barcode NGD prototype present leading and tailing edges in time-advance of input ones when the carrier frequency is set equal to the NGD center frequency.

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