Miniaturisation and high quality factor of spiral meander spurline resonator for microwave oscillator

Abstract

The spiral meander spurline structure is an optimal solution for a reduced resonator size and a high Quality factor (Q-factor) compared to other conventional spurline structures. The spiral meander spurline resonator shows not only 38% reduced dimensional effect, but also 16% improved Q-factor compared with conventional meander spurline resonator. Moreover, in order to get more high quality factor, we analysed spurline slot width variation and designed the symmetric dual spiral meander structure, which has a 46.87% improved Q-factor compare with a single spiral meander. The symmetric dual spiral meander structure resonator performance results are shown in a return loss of −0.76 dB, an insertion loss of −46.32 dB, and a quality factor of 235 at 6.4 GHz C-band application. In addition, according to the design and performance of the resonator, we can derive from this performance a low phase noise oscillator. The oscillators using symmetric dual spiral meander structure resonator shows good phase noise performances of −104.43 dBc/Hz at a 100 kHz offset from the carrier frequencies of 6.38 GHz at output powers of 12.2 dBm, respectively.