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| | Thermoelectric compensation for voltage control devices - Patent 4097829 |
 | | A tuning compensation device to reduce post-tuning frequency drift in voltage controlled oscillators, comprising a thermoelectric element, such as a wafer of doped semiconductor material, in contact with the junction of a tuning element, such as a varactor diode, to produce a correction to the control voltage and thereby compensate for thermally induced frequency drift. |
 | | In the usual operation of a voltage controlled oscillator, a back-bias voltage, such as the back-bias voltage 3, is applied to the varactor diode to set the oscillator at a desired frequency F.sub.2. |
 | | This voltage is, in effect, a feedback voltage controlled by the junction temperature, which acts to oppose thermally induced changes in the varactor diode capacitance characteristic, such as occur in voltage controlled oscillators whenever the frequency is changed. |
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