Passive tunable liquid crystal finline phase shifter for millimeterwaves

35th European Microwave Conference 2005 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 297-300

  Mueller, Stefan ^a   Felber, Christoph ^a   Scheele, Patrick ^a   Wittek, Michael ^b   Hock, Christian ^b   Jakoby, Rolf ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MERCK KGAA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Liquid crystal devices; Liquid crystals; Passive circuits; Phase shifters; Reconfigurable architectures; Tunable circuits and devices

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC LOSSES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; PASSIVE NETWORKS; TUNERS; WAVEGUIDES;

BROADBAND TRANSITION; LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICES; RECONFIGURABLE ARCHITECTURES; TUNABLE CIRCUITS;

PHASE SHIFTERS;

EID: 33847165870     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EUMC.2005.1608852     Document Type: Conference Paper

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