• 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