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A Colpitts Oscillator Using SAW Device For Greater Temperature and Frequency Range
Swati Yadav, Neelabh Tiwari Electronics and Communication Department, Babu Banarasi Das University, Lucknow, India er.sylko@gmail.com, neelabh1988@gmail.com Abstract- The latest researches have cleared that the high
stability is required to improve the efficiency in the high frequency range. The Colpitts oscillator is designed for generation of high frequency sustained oscillations. The Colpitts type of oscillators is widely used for commercial purposes. In this paper we have proposed a new design of a Colpitts type oscillator using the SAW device in the feedback network for higher frequency range and greater temperature stability. High frequency oscillators are required for the development of mobile, radio communication and other equipment and sensor. The proposed oscillator circuit can operate from lower frequency range to higher frequency range with greater temperature stability. The oscillator circuitry composed of a common emitter amplifier and SAW device in the feedback loop to achieve the sustained oscillations at higher frequency and greater stability for large temperature range. This paper presents design and simulation of the SAW based Colpitts oscillator which can be used for high frequency range with higher stability for larger temperature range. amplitude that decays exponentially with the depth into the substrate. Saw device can perform for high frequency range from few MHz to several GHz. SAW devices have greater stability, high SNR value, and can be mass produced, so the cost of the SAW devices is low than other oscillators. SAW oscillators are superior in output power than crystal and LC oscillator. The SAW oscillator can operate easily up to several GHz range. The Saw oscillator here introduced have high temperature characteristic with absolute accuracy within the range between 20C to 80C. The SAW oscillator is been designed to improve the performance for wide frequency and temperature range. The oscillator here used is the Colpitts type of oscillator. Colpitts oscillator is similar to the Hartley oscillator but instead using the tapped inductance it uses the tapped capacitance. The Colpitts oscillator is used in commercial applications and where the high frequency range is required. The characteristic of the SAW Colpitts oscillator is that its frequency shifts towards the higher frequency with temperature, but the performance of the oscillator is stable for large temperature range. It shows a parabolic characteristic for the given temperature range.

Keywords- Colpitts oscillator, SAW, Greater temperature

range, High frequency Colpitts oscillator.

II. CIRCUIT DESIGN

The Colpitts oscillator is composed of the common emitter based amplifier circuit and in the feedback network a SAW device is used instead of the LC tank circuit to achieve the higher frequency and greater temperature stability. The figure (1) shows the common emitter amplifier circuit. The Colpitts oscillator without feedback network. It consists of a transistor Q, an indicator L1 and capacitors Cin and Cout which are the coupling capacitor. Ce in the bypass capacitor, Rc is the collector resistor which is for used for controlling the collector current. The input coupling capacitor in used for coupling the ac input voltage to the base of the transistor. As the capacitor Cin blocks the dc, and couples the ac component of the input signal. This Cin capacitor also ensures that the dc biasing condition of the transistor remains unchanged even after application of input signal. The Cout capacitor couples the amplifier output. Re is

I. INTRODUCTION
Greater stability, high frequency, low power consumption and low cost are the requirements of todays communication industry like in mobile communication, wireless communication, radio communication etc. Earlier the crystal oscillators were used for the high stability clock source in various types of equipments and many applications for greater temperature range. The SAW (surface acoustic wave) device which is being introduced in this paper can perform better than the crystal oscillators which were used for high temperature range, greater temperature range and greater stability. Surface acoustic wave are the acoustic wave that travel along the surface of the material exhibiting elasticity and the

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connected in the circuit which stabilizes the circuit against the temperature variations. Capacitor Ce is connected to parallel to Re to provided low reactive path to the amplified ac signal.

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Fig (2) SAW Colpitts oscillator circuit

III. EXPERIMENT
The proposed SAW Colpitts oscillator is designed for the higher frequency and greater stability, which achieved by using the SAW devices because they are highly stable in nature. Another requirement which we want to achieve by designed this Colpitts oscillator is to use this oscillator is to use this oscillator for larger temperature range so-that it can with stand in low as well as at higher temperature. An experiment is been performed to get the frequency response of the designed oscillator with respect to the temperature. The temperature range for with the designed oscillator perform accurately is -20C to 80C. The designed SAW Colpitts oscillator is placed in a PID controlled constant temperature chamber. The frequency response is taken through the spectrum analyser, which shows almost symmetrical parabolic curve for the given temperature range. The experimental values are given in table 1.

Fig (1) Common Emitter amplifier circuit

The figure (2) shows the schematic diagram to show the Colpitts oscillator in the circuit using the SAW device in the feedback path. This SAW device increases the frequency, temperature range and stability of the Colpitts oscillator. The output of the CE amplifier is fed back to the input through the SAW device which is used in the feedback path to give the required phase shift for sustained oscillations.

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TABLE 1.

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Temperature -20C -15C -10C -5C 0C 5C 10C 15C 20C 25C 30C 35C 40C 45C 50C 55C 60C 65C 70C 75C

Frequency 433.571 MHz 433.681 MHz 433.749 MHz 433.782 MHz 433.801 MHz 433.802 MHz 433.827 MHz 433.842 MHz 433.847 MHz 433.863 MHz 433.872 MHz 433.868 MHz 433.851 MHz 433.845 MHz 433.834 MHz 433.821 MHz 433.808 MHz 433.786 MHz 433.745 MHz 433.689 MHz

The oscillator is designed at 433 MHz and its performance is examined by simulation. The simulation is made by NI multism. The figure (4) shows the simulation of the common emitter amplifier whose frequency is of range 25 KHz. When we use SAW device then it gives the oscillator at the frequency equals to 433 MHz.

The experimental values of table 2. is plotted in the graph. The graph shows the parabolic property of the SAW based colpitts oscillator. It shows the behaviour of the oscillator for the given temperature range is symmetrical.

Fig (4) Simulation of CE amplifier circuit

Circuit parameters of the SAW based Colpitts oscillator used are show in table2. TABLE 2. L1 R1 Rc Re C1 C2 C3 C4 Ce Fig (3) Characteristics curve between frequency and temperature 47nH 150K 330K 470 1nF 1nF 1pf 0.47pF 8.2pF

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The simulation of the SAW Colpitts oscillator cannot be done on the frequency analyser to the frequency response of the SAW Colpitts oscillator is shown in figure (5). The simulation of the Colpitts oscillator shows that the designed of highly stable at a particular temperature. The characteristic of this SAW oscillator is that the frequency of this oscillator shifts towards right for high temperature and toward left for low temperature.

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Fig (5) Frequency response of the SAW Colpitts oscillator

V. CONCLUSION
In this paper, we have proposed a new design of Colpitts oscillator circuit using the SAW device in the feedback path instead of any tank circuit. The oscillator circuit is designed at 433 MHz frequency, which is highly stable at a given temperature and is evaluated by simulation. The designed Colpitts oscillator is better than other Saw oscillator because of its temperature stability. From the results, the proposed oscillator circuit is thought to be very useful for the application in the high frequency requirement. The designed SAW can also be used as the different type of sensors example temperature sensor, because the SAW device used in the circuit is highly sensitive to the perturbations and the SAW device directly senses from its surface.

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