Abstract
Abstract
A liquid-crystal (LC)-based floating electrode-free (FE-free) coplanar waveguide (CPW) phase shifter with an additional LC layer is demonstrated for the first time. An LC layer is overlain on the electrodes of the original model; this change increases the amount of electric flux that the proposed structure can confine in the tunable region, and thereby greatly increases the figure-of-merit (FoM) while maintaining the benefits of the simple coplanar structure. We simulated the variations in the phase shifter’s FoM, characteristic impedance, and driving voltage while sweeping the additional LC layer thickness up to 300 μm with each electrode condition at 28 GHz. In the case of electrode thickness variation, the FoM increased as electrode thickness increased, regardless of the presence of the additional LC layer. However, in the case of the signal electrode width variation, we obtained an opposite FoM tendency depending on the presence of the additional LC layer. This work shows the possibility of an efficient LC-based FE-free CPW phase shifter design for a given LC layer and electrode conditions.
Subject
Surfaces, Coatings and Films,Acoustics and Ultrasonics,Condensed Matter Physics,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
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