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Constructing Complete Radio Frequency Receiver for LTE TDD Transceiver

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Dalia Sadek, Heba A. Shawkey, Abdelhalim Zekry. Published in Signal Processing.

Constructing Complete Radio Frequency Receiver for LTE TDD Transceiver
Communications on Applied Electronics
Year of Publication: 2015
Publisher: Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Series: Volume 3 Number 2
Authors: Dalia Sadek, Heba A. Shawkey, Abdelhalim Zekry
10.5120/cae2015651882
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Dalia Sadek, Heba A Shawkey and Abdelhalim Zekry. Article: Constructing Complete Radio Frequency Receiver for LTE TDD Transceiver. Communications on Applied Electronics 3(2):27-33, October 2015. Published by Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA. BibTeX

@article{key:article,
	author = {Dalia Sadek and Heba A. Shawkey and Abdelhalim Zekry},
	title = {Article: Constructing Complete Radio Frequency Receiver for LTE TDD Transceiver},
	journal = {Communications on Applied Electronics},
	year = {2015},
	volume = {3},
	number = {2},
	pages = {27-33},
	month = {October},
	note = {Published by Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA}
}

Abstract

In this paper, the design, implementation and testing of the Zero IF receiver for Long Term Evolution (LTE) band 36 extending from 1930MHz to 1990MHz for TDD mode of transmission. Comprising a passive part and active part. The passive part consists of a microstrip patch antenna and a Hairpin BPF filter which are fabricated with a total area of 43x36mm2 for the antenna and 38.6x32.16mm2 for the filter. The proposed devices are fabricated using FR-4 material substrate with dielectric constant of Ɛr=4.4, thickens h =1.6, and Loss tangent of 0.025.

The active part includes Low noise amplifier, IQ demodulator and frequency synthesizer. Which are a real made component selected off-shelf to satisfy the standards for LTE receiver characteristics.

The proposed RF front-end receiver achieves a 4.022 dB NF, 2.65 dBm IIP3.

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Keywords

LTE, TDD, band 36, Zero IF receiver, Micro-strip, Patch antenna, filter, FR-4 material, LNA, Frequency Synthesizer and Demodulator