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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2015
Filed:
May. 03, 2012
David Bowie Cruickshank, Rockville, MD (US);
Brian Murray, Cork, IE;
David Bowie Cruickshank, Rockville, MD (US);
Brian Murray, Cork, IE;
Skyworks Solutions, Inc., Woburn, MA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and methods related to ferrite based circulators are disclosed. A ferrite disk used in a circulator can be configured to reduce intermodulation distortion when routing radio-frequency signals having closely spaced frequencies. Such a reduction in intermodulation distortion can be achieved by adjusting magnetization at the edge portion of the ferrite disk. By way of an example, a ferrite disk with a reduced saturation magnetization (4 PiMs) edge portion can reduce intermodulation distortion. Example configurations with such a reduced 4 PiMs edge portions are disclosed.