Barium Strontium Titanate Thick Films for Tunable Software-Defined Radio Front-Ends

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In this paper, the samples preparation, experimental details, and characterization of the Electrophoretic Deposition (EPD) of a thick film Barium Strontium Titanate (BST) capacitor intended for radio-frequency applications are reported. With a bias voltage from 0 V to 20 V, the Ba0:7Sr0:3TiO3 capacitor fabricated demonstrates 49% of tunability. The quality factor and the microwave (MW) loss tangent are calculated from 500 MHz to 5 GHz. Using an one-tone measurement setup, the small signal S-parameters measurements for the BST thick film capacitor are also presented by applying input signals from -20 dBm to 4 dBm. The linearity and loss tangent are analyzed considering a comparison of two different bias voltages, 0 V and 10 V. For the first time, the BST thick films fabricated with EPD are implemented and measured in the MW regime.

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Patrícia Bouça, Ricardo Figueiredo, Anna Włódarkiewicz, Alexander Tkach, João Nuno Matos, Paula M. Vilarinho, Nuno Borges de Carvalho

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The work of Patrícia Bouça was supported by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (F.C.T.) under Ph.D. Grant 2020.05679.BD. And it is also funded by FCT/MCTES through national funds and when applicable co-funded EU funds under the project UIDB/50008/2020-UIDP/50008/2020.

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