Affiliation:
1. Department of Electrical Electronics Engineering, Laboratory of Wave-Arrays and Display Engineering (WADE Group), Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 37673, Gyeongbuk, Republic of Korea
Abstract
A novel technique to enhance the phase shifting range of a liquid crystal (LC)-based, substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW) phase shifter by inserting inductive posts (IPs) is presented for the first time. The IPs inserted in the LC-based SIW phase shifter produce a phase advance based on the relative permittivity of the LC, resulting in an additional differential phase shift. At 28 GHz, the proposed structure with IPs achieves a ratio of maximum differential phase shift (∆ϕmax) to maximum insertion loss (ILmax) (FoM1) = 52.82 °/dB and ratio of maximum differential phase shift to length (FoM2) = 2.62 °/mm. Compared with conventional LC-based SIW phase shifters that lack an IP and use the same amount of LC, the FoM1 increased by 16% and the FoM2 increased by 55%. In addition, compared to the typical structure that uses additional LCs instead of IPs, the FoM1 decreased by 7%, and FoM2 increased by 21%. Therefore, inserting IPs into the LC-based SIW phase shifter can reduce the dimensions of the phase shifter and the amount of LCs required to achieve the desired differential phase shift. We believe this work can contribute to the design of compact and efficient SIW phase shifters for future telecommunication systems.
Funder
Nepes in South Korea
JNC Corporation in Japan
Samsung Research Funding Center of Samsung Electronics
Subject
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes,Computer Science Applications,Process Chemistry and Technology,General Engineering,Instrumentation,General Materials Science
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