A Linearity Improvement Technique for Thin-film Barium Strontium Titanate Capacitors

A device architecture is proposed to improve the linearity of barium strontium titanate (BST) capacitors while maintaining the tunability and the quality factor. Thin-film parallel plate capacitors are fabricated utilizing the proposed architecture. The measurement results successfully demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach. Up to 14 dB of improvement on IIP3 is observed

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