Varactor Diode

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VARACTOR DIODE
-Also known as Varicap Diode -Is a device whose reactance can be varied in a controlled manner with a bias voltage. -It is a p-n junction with a special impurity profile, and its capacitance variation is very sensitive to reverse-biased voltage.

Continuation Varactor Diode

-Are widely used in parametric amplification, harmonic generation, mixing, detection, and voltagevariable tuning -It was established that there is a region of uncovered charge on either side of the junction that together the regions makes up the duplication region and define the depletion width Wd.

The transmission capacitance (Ct) established by the isolated uncovered charges is determined by

CT= ______ Wd
Where is the permitivity of the semiconductor materials, A the p-n junction area and Wd the depletion width.

The characteristics of a typical commercially available varicap diode.

C(pF)
C(0)
80

60

40

20 -2 0 -4 -6 -8 -10 -12 -14

VR(V)

(VR = applied reverse bias)

In terms of the applied reversed bias, the transition capacitance is given approximately

K
CT =
Where
and construction technique VT = knee potential VR = magnitude of the applied reverse-bias potential n = for alloy junctions and for diffused junction

(VT + VR)n

K = constant determined by the semiconductor material

In terms of the capacitance at the zero-bias condition C(0), the capacitance as a function of VR.

CT(VR) =

C(0)
(1 + |VR/VT|)n

The symbols most commonly used for the varactor diode and a first approximation for its equivalent circuit in the reverse-bias region.

CT = f (VR)

Rs RR 1M (0.1 - 12)

LS (1 5nH)

This is an Example of Varactor Diode

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