In this article, a wideband quasi-circulator (QC) with the low noise figure (NF) and high 1-dB compression point (P 1 dB ) is proposed. The slotline-based 180 • hybrid is introduced to achieve the wideband high transmitter-receiver (TX-RX) isolation. Meanwhile, the bidirectional in-phase stage and the nonreciprocal out-of-phase stage are utilized to obtain specific power-split ratios for the low insertion loss and high antenna-transmitter (ANT-TX) isolation. By using the unequal power split, the proposed QC is without the fundamental 3-dB loss seen in reciprocal ANT interfaces. Besides, to further enhance the TX-RX isolation within a wideband, a reconfigurable inter-stage matching network based on a varactor-tuned capacitor is implemented. To verify the mechanisms mentioned above, a reconfigurable wideband QC operating at 1.75-2.9 GHz is implemented and fabricated. The total power consumption is 224 mW. The measurement exhibits in-band TX-RX isolation of 27-58 dB. The TX-ANT and ANT-RX insertion losses are 4.3-5.0 dB and 1.0-1.9 dB, respectively. The QC also achieves the minimum in-band ANT-RX NF of 3.4 dB. Meanwhile, the measured TX-ANT and ANT-RX IIP3s are 39.4 and 32.5 dBm, respectively. The TX input P 1 dB is greater than 28.78 dBm, while the RX input P 1 dB is 23 dBm. The TX-induced ANT-RX P 1 dB is measured to be 28 dBm. Index Terms-180 • hybrid full-duplex (FD), quasi-circulator (QC), reconfigurable circuits, wideband.
I. INTRODUCTIONW ITH the ever-increasing demand for high data rates in modern wireless communications, there are urgent requirements of wireless channels with large capacity and high spectral efficiency in recent years. To satisfy the practical requirements, either time or frequency division duplexing systems are employed [1], [2]. However, all these systems are exclusively half-duplex, which limits the maximum transmission rate to only half of the network capacity. For this reason, the full-duplex (FD) system is introduced to double the Manuscript