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2021-10-20
Design and Fabrication of a Liquid Crystal-Based 94 GHz 360° Phase Shifter for Reflectarray Antennas
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Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters, Vol. 100, 145-150, 2021
Abstract
In this work, we propose a liquid crystal (LC)-based double-dipole phase shifter. By manipulating the electric field, we change the resonant frequency and phase of the electromagnetic wave by deflecting the orientation of LC molecules. We made the LC-based device with a 30 × 30 array of two parallel unequal dipoles on a Quartz substrate. The substrate has an area and thickness of 4×4 cm2 and 480 μm, respectively. The experimental results show that the phase shift of 0°-385.4° is achieved at 94 GHz by changing the applied bias voltage on the LC layer from 0 V to 8.4 V. The phase shift is greater than 360° in the range 91.75-94.85 GHz. When the LC molecules are most significantly affected by the electric field, the maximum precision of phase shift is 4.08° with a bias voltage of 2 mV.
Citation
Rongxin Mao, Junjie Xu, Xianping Li, Shuangyuan Sun, Xiangxiang Li, Jun Yang, Zhiping Yin, Guangsheng Deng, and Hongbo Lu, "Design and Fabrication of a Liquid Crystal-Based 94 GHz 360° Phase Shifter for Reflectarray Antennas," Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters, Vol. 100, 145-150, 2021.
doi:10.2528/PIERL21071301
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