• DocumentCode
    1108204
  • Title

    Tunable liquid crystal phase shifter for microwave frequencies

  • Author

    Goelden, F. ; Gaebler, A. ; Goebel, M. ; Manabe, A. ; Mueller, S. ; Jakoby, R.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Microwave Eng., Tech. Univ. Darmstadt, Darmstadt
  • Volume
    45
  • Issue
    13
  • fYear
    2009
  • Firstpage
    686
  • Lastpage
    687
  • Abstract
    A tunable phase shifter using liquid crystal (LC) is presented. The device is fabricated in a fashion similar to LC displays which makes fabrication very simple compared, for example, to MEMS approaches. At the targeted operation frequency of 20 GHz the device offers a performance of above 60 differential phase shift per dB insertion loss and a minimum tuning speed of 340 ms.
  • Keywords
    liquid crystal devices; losses; microwave phase shifters; microwave photonics; LC device fabrication; differential phase shift; frequency 20 GHz; insertion loss; microwave frequency; targeted operation frequency; time 340 ms; tunable liquid crystal phase shifter; tuning speed;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el.2009.1168
  • Filename
    5117394
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1108204