Radio frequency antenna switch

• US 9,960,765 B2
• Filed: 10/18/2016
• Issued: 05/01/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Yang, Jinger, Chi, Yusong, Fan, Jinhan
• Primary Examiner(s): LIAO, HSINCHUN
• Application Number:
  US15/296,451
• Publication Number:
  US 20170040997A1
• Time in Patent Office: 560 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/102 in field-effect transistor switches
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/145 in field-effect transistor switches
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/6871 the output circuit comprising more than one controlled field-effect transistor
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/693 Switching arrangements with several input- or output-terminals, e.g. multiplexers, distributors logic circuits H03K19/00; code converters H03M5/00, H03M7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/48 in circuits for connecting transmitter and receiver to a common transmission path, e.g. by energy of transmitter H04B1/46 takes precedence

Abstract

A radio frequency antenna switch includes an antenna port, a radio frequency signal port, and at least one branch connected to the antenna port or the radio frequency signal port, where each branch includes multiple transistors which are connected in a stack manner; channel width to length ratios of a preset number of transistors in the multiple transistors progressively decrease in a direction away from the antenna port, where the preset number is less than or equal to the total number of the multiple transistors. With the radio frequency antenna switch, capacitances of the preset number of transistors close to the antenna port increase, and distributed voltages that these transistors close to an antenna end in an off state need to bear are reduced.

Claims

1. A radio frequency antenna switch, comprising:

an antenna port configured to receive or transmit a radio frequency signal;

a radio frequency signal port configured to receive the radio frequency signal from the antenna port or send the radio frequency signal to the antenna port; and

at least one branch connected to the antenna port or the radio frequency signal port,

wherein each branch in the at least one branch comprises multiple transistors,

wherein the multiple transistors are connected in a stack manner,

wherein each branch selectively couples or decouples the antenna port with the radio frequency signal port under the action of a control signal,

wherein metal wires that do not affect an electrical connection relationship among the transistors separately cover a preset number of transistors in the multiple transistors,

wherein coverage areas of the metal wires progressively decrease in a direction away from the antenna port, and

wherein the preset number is less than or equal to the total number of the multiple transistors.

2. The switch according to claim 1, wherein each metal wire covers a gate or at least one of a source and a drain of a transistor corresponding to the metal wire.

3. The switch according to claim 1, wherein when the preset number is less than the total number of the multiple transistors, metal wires with same coverage areas are disposed above at least one other transistor except the preset number of transistors in the multiple transistors and a transistor that is in the multiple transistors and is the farthest away from the antenna port.

4. The switch according to claim 1, wherein when the preset number is less than the total number of the multiple transistors, no metal wires cover the at least one other transistor except the preset number of transistors in the multiple transistors.

5. The switch according to claim 1, wherein a gate of each transistor in the multiple transistors is connected to a gate resistor corresponding to the gate, and a body of each transistor is connected to a body resistor corresponding to the body, and wherein resistance values of the gate resistors and the body resistors that correspond to the preset number of transistors progressively decrease in the direction away from the antenna port.

6. The switch according to claim 1, wherein a decreasing degree of the coverage areas of the metal wires increases with an increase in the number of the at least one branch.