Millimeter-wave phase shifter based on waveguide-mounted RF-MEMS

被引:11
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作者
Psychogiou, Dimitra [1 ]
Li, Yunjia [2 ]
Hesselbarth, Jan [3 ]
Kuehne, Stephane [2 ]
Peroulis, Dimitrios [4 ]
Hierold, Christofer [2 ]
Hafner, Christian [1 ]
机构
[1] ETH, Lab Electromagnet Fields & Microwave Elect, Dept Informat Technol & Elect Engn, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
[2] ETH, Grp Micro & Nanosyst, Dept Mech & Proc Engn, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
[3] Univ Stuttgart, Inst Radio Frequency Technol, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
[4] Purdue Univ, Sch Elect & Comp Engn, Birck Nanotechnol Ctr, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
基金
瑞士国家科学基金会; 美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
phase shifter; RF-MEMS; resonator; analog tuning;
D O I
10.1002/mop.27390
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
A continuously variable transmission type W-band phase shifter based on a single pole bandpass filter tuned by MEMS actuated fingers is reported. Tuning is achieved by means of two half-wavelength long conductive fingers that synchronously rotate upwards in an antiparallel fashion. The fingers deflection results in a distributed variable shunt capacitance which in turn leads to a variable analog phase shift. For an applied DC bias voltage between 0 and 26 V, the transmission phase can be continuously varied up to 46.4 degrees at a frequency of 106 GHz with an insertion loss of less than 3.4 dB. (C) 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 54:465468, 2013; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com. DOI 10.1002/mop.27390
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页码:465 / 468
页数:4
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