Tunable liquid crystal phase shifter for microwave frequencies
- 1 January 2009
- journal article
- Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters
- Vol. 45 (13), 686-687
- https://doi.org/10.1049/el.2009.1168
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
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