Tunable Liquid Crystal Filter in Nonradiative Dielectric Waveguide Technology at 60 GHz
- 13 December 2018
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters
- Vol. 29 (1), 44-46
- https://doi.org/10.1109/lmwc.2018.2884152
Abstract
This letter presents a continuously tunable nonradiative dielectric waveguide three-pole bandpass filter based on liquid crystal (LC) technology at 60 GHz. LC is used as tunable material to obtain a continuous tunable center frequency. For the LC's orientation, an electrode network with parasitic mode suppressive structure is realized. The measurements are performed with magnetic and electric biasing to verify the performance of the filter design. A maximum fractional bandwidth of 1% and a tunability of 2.5% were measured with electrical biasing. Furthermore, the filter's insertion loss is between 4.9 and 6.2 dB over the tuning range. The extracted unloaded quality factor for electrical biasing ranges from 96 to 141.Keywords
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