Broadband Eight-Port Forward-Wave Directional Couplers and Four-Way Differential Phase Shifter

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (5) ◽  
pp. 2161-2169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui-Ling Ting ◽  
Sen-Kuei Hsu ◽  
Tzong-Lin Wu
Keyword(s):  
Phase Shifter ◽  
Forward Wave ◽  
Directional Couplers ◽  
Differential Phase

scholarly journals Temperature Characterization of Liquid Crystal Dielectric Image Line Phase Shifter for Millimeter-Wave Applications

Crystals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Henning Tesmer ◽  
Rani Razzouk ◽  
Ersin Polat ◽  
Dongwei Wang ◽  
Rolf Jakoby ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Millimeter Wave ◽  
Insertion Loss ◽  
Phase Shifter ◽  
Ground Plane ◽  
Temperature Dependent ◽  
Differential Phase ◽  
Dependent Behavior ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Temperature Dependent Behavior

In this paper we investigate the temperature dependent behavior of a liquid crystal (LC) loaded tunable dielectric image guide (DIG) phase shifter at millimeter-wave frequencies from 80 GHz to 110 GHz for future high data rate communications. The adhesive, necessary for precise fabrication, is analyzed before temperature dependent behavior of the component is shown, using the nematic LC-mixture GT7-29001. The temperature characterization is conducted by changing the temperature of the LC DIG’s ground plane between −10∘C and 80 ∘C. The orientation of the LC molecules, and therefore the effective macroscopic relative permittivity of the DIG, is changed by inserting the temperature setup in a fixture with rotatable magnets. Temperature independent matching can be observed, while the insertion loss gradually increases with temperature for both highest and lowest permittivity of the LC. At 80 ∘C the insertion loss is up to 1.3dB higher and at −10∘C it is 0.6dB lower than the insertion loss present at 20 ∘C. In addition, the achievable differential phase is reduced with increasing temperature. The impact of molecule alignment to this reduction is shown for the phase shifter and an estimated 85% of the anisotropy is still usable with an LC DIG phase shifter when increasing the temperature from 20 ∘C to 80 ∘C. Higher reduction of differential phase is present at higher frequencies as the electrical length of the phase shifter increases. A maximum difference in differential phase of 72∘ is present at 110 GHz, when increasing the temperature from 20 ∘C to 80 ∘C. Nevertheless, a well predictable, quasi-linear behavior can be observed at the covered temperature range, highlighting the potential of LC-based dielectric components at millimeter wave frequencies.

scholarly journals Novel design for differential phase shifter structure by using multi‐section coupled lines

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (11) ◽  
pp. 553-556
Author(s):  
M.D. Geyikoglu ◽  
H. Koc Polat ◽  
B. Cavusoglu
Keyword(s):  
Phase Shifter ◽  
Differential Phase ◽  
Coupled Lines ◽  
Novel Design

scholarly journals Acoustic Wave Reflection Control Based on Broadband Differential Phase Shifters

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zifu Qin ◽  
Xiaohan Liu ◽  
Chu Ma
Keyword(s):  
Phase Shift ◽  
Acoustic Waves ◽  
Phase Shifter ◽  
Wave Reflection ◽  
Phase Shifters ◽  
Complex Phase ◽  
Reflected Waves ◽  
Differential Phase ◽  
Location Patterns ◽  
Working Frequency

Controlling the flow of acoustic waves has broad applications in acoustic imaging, communication, energy harvesting, audio systems, etc. Metasurfaces have been developed for wave control. In this work we propose the design of broadband differential phase shifters for acoustic reflected waves, which can achieve nearly constant phase shift values over a broad frequency ranges. We further demonstrate the design of a broadband differential π phase shifter that works in the frequency range of (10 kHz, 16 KHz) and its applications in acoustic metasurfaces for steering and focusing of reflected acoustic waves. The metasurfaces we designed have the following advantages: 1) The metasurface is formed with binary patterns instead of more complex phase discretization steps, thus the metasurface realization is less complex for fabrication and assembly. 2) The phase shift values of the two basic phase shifter elements are broadband, thus we do not need to fabricate new elements for each frequency. Rearranging the same elements into different location patterns would allow us to tune the working frequency of the metasurfaces.

Microwave Phase Shifters Using Ferroelectric (Ba,Sr)TiO3 Films

2002 ◽  
Vol 720 ◽  
Author(s):  
Won-Jeong Kim ◽  
Eun-Kyoung Kim ◽  
Seung-Eon Moon ◽  
Seok-Kil Han ◽  
Su-Jae Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phase Angle ◽  
Phase Shifter ◽  
Metal Layer ◽  
Bias Field ◽  
Phase Shifters ◽  
Metal Loss ◽  
Differential Phase ◽  
Bst Films ◽  
Dc Bias ◽  
Dc Bias Field

AbstractThe ferroelectric (Ba0.6Sr0.4)TiO3 (BST) films were prepared on (001) MgO single crystals by pulsed laser deposition. Coplanar waveguide (CPW) type phase shifters controlled by external dc bias field were fabricated on BST films using a 2 μm thick metal layer to reduce metal loss. Microwave properties of the CPW phase shifter were measured using a HP 8510C vector network analyzer from 0.1 – 20 GHz. The fabricated CPW phase shifters (8 mm long) exhibited differential phase angle of 100 ° at 10 GHz with a dc bias field of less than 80 kV/cm between center and ground conductors. Furthermore, a stable differential phase angle (102 ± 3.5 o) was observed from another CPW while changing the power of incident microwave from -10 to +30 dBm. Gap size dependent dielectric constant of the BST film was observed and a simple correction method was suggested in the paper. These results demonstrate the possible application of ferroelectric tunable devices on a high power tunable wireless telecommunication.

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