DocumentCode
2862776
Title
A liquid-metal reconfigurable double-stub tuner
Author
Lei, Bao Jun ; Hu, Wenqi ; Ohta, Aaron T. ; Shiroma, Wayne A.
Author_Institution
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, 96822 USA
fYear
2012
fDate
17-22 June 2012
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
A liquid-metal reconfigurable double-stub tuner is presented. The double-stub tuner consists of two fluidic channels whose stub lengths L1 and L2 can be tuned with Galinstan liquid metal using pressure-driven flow. The measured input impedance of this tuner shows wide Smith Chart coverage.
Keywords
Impedance measurement; Length measurement; Liquids; Metals; Pumps; Tuners; Impedance matching; liquid metals; reconfigurable tuner;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Microwave Symposium Digest (MTT), 2012 IEEE MTT-S International
Conference_Location
Montreal, QC, Canada
ISSN
0149-645X
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-1085-7
Electronic_ISBN
0149-645X
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/MWSYM.2012.6259372
Filename
6259372
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