scholarly journals Bending Limit Tests for Ultra-Thin Liquid Crystal Polymer Substrate Based on Flexible Microwave Components

Micromachines ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 531
Author(s):  
Yu Lan ◽  
Yuehang Xu

In this paper, bending limit tests for one ultra-thin liquid crystal polymer (LCP) substrate (Rogers 3850) based on the mechanical properties of flexible microwave microstrip components are presented. First, a set of 50 Ω microstrip lines, a band-pass filter, and a stepped impedance filter in X-band, are designed by using double clapped LCPs with 50 μm thickness of substrate and 18 μm thickness of copper, which is fabricated by conventional photolithography. Then, the limit tests of the flexibility of the LCP microwave microstrip components are presented, and the range of the bending limit radius, from 1 mm to 0.75 mm, is demonstrated from the testing results. It is found that the cause for component failure is fracture of the copper (18 μm thickness) laminate, according to the bending limit test experiments. Finally, the analysis of the reasons for the collapse of the microwave components, under bending situations, is explored. The results from this work would be useful for further designs of the flexible microwave devices and systems on LCP substrates, with compact sizes and good performance.

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Li ◽  
Xinyu Zhang ◽  
Tianxu Zhang ◽  
Xubang Shen

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (1) ◽  
pp. 000078-000082 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohd Ifwat Mohd Ghazali ◽  
Kyoung Youl Park ◽  
Vincens Gjokaj ◽  
Amanpreet Kaur ◽  
Premjeet Chahal

Abstract This paper investigates the design and fabrication of 3D printed waveguide and their application for the design of microwave passive components. This includes a simple waveguide structure, a band pass filter, and a leaky wave. A Lego-like approach is used to assemble together different 3D printed sub-sections after metal coating. These allow the structure to be fabricated in multiple layers. Simulation and measured results match closely. Details of modeling, fabrication and measurement are presented for these three passive components.


Frequenz ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (7-8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Weiping Cao ◽  
Di Jiang ◽  
Yupeng Liu ◽  
Yuanwang Yang ◽  
Baichuan Gan

AbstractIn this paper, a novel microwave continuously tunable band-pass filter, based on nematic liquid crystals (LCs), is proposed. It uses liquid crystal (LC) as the electro-optic material to mainly realize frequency shift at microwave band by changing the dielectric anisotropy, when applying the bias voltage. According to simulation results, it achieves 840 MHz offset. Comparing to the existing tunable filter, it has many advantages, such as continuously tunable, miniaturization, low processing costs, low tuning voltage, etc. Thus, it has shown great potentials in frequency domain and practical applications in modern communication.


Optik ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 127 (20) ◽  
pp. 8374-8378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Di Jiang ◽  
Yupeng Liu ◽  
Weiping Cao ◽  
Zhiyong Guo

IEEE Access ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 1339-1346
Author(s):  
Di Jiang ◽  
Xiaoyu Li ◽  
Zihao Fu ◽  
Guofu Wang ◽  
Zhi Zheng ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yupeng Liu ◽  
Di Jiang ◽  
Lei Xia ◽  
Ruimin Xu

This paper proposes a novel microwave continuous adjustable band-pass filter integrated power divider based on nematic liquid crystals (LCs). The proposed power divider uses liquid crystal (LC) as the dielectric material. It can realize phase shift by changing the dielectric anisotropy, when biasing the high anisotropy nematic liquid crystal. It is mainly used in microwave frequencies. It has a large number of advantages compared to conventional filter integrated power divider, such as low loss, multifunction integration, continuous adjustable, miniaturization, low processing costs, low operating voltage, high phase shift, and convenient manufacture. Therefore, it has shown great potential for application.


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