Digitally tuned capacitors with tapered and reconfigurable quality factors
US9293262B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Aug 15, 2012 |
| Grant date | Mar 22, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 27, 2033 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH03M1/804
- WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The present disclosure describes tuning capacitors with tapered and reconfigurable quality factors. Digitally tuned capacitors (DTCs) that provide a variable quality factor (Q) while maintaining a constant or near constant capacitance as well as DTCs that provide one or more Q values in a tapered distribution while maintaining a constant or near constant capacitance are described. The present disclosure also describes DTCs that provide one or more capacitances in a tapered distribution and one or more Q values in a tapered distribution.
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