A liquid-crystal, tunable, ultra-thin Fabry-Perot resonator in Ka band

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages 701-704

  Tentillier, N ^a   Krasinski, F ^a   Sauleau, R ^b   Splingart, B ^a   Lhermite, H ^b   Coquet, Ph ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU LITTORAL CÔTE D OPALE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c INSTITUT D ELECTRONIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Fabry Perot (FP) resonator; Liquid crystal (LC); Subwavelength resonator

Indexed keywords

DRIVING FIELD; FABRY-PEROT RESONATORS; FILLING RATIO; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATION; FREQUENCY SHIFT; GHZ BAND; HIGH REFLECTIVITY; KA BAND; NEGATIVE PHASE; NEMATIC LC; PERMITTIVITY VALUES; REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUB-WAVELENGTH RESONATORS; TUNABILITIES; ULTRA-THIN; FINITE DIFFERENCE; TIME DOMAIN;

FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MIRRORS; PERMITTIVITY; REFLECTION;

RESONATORS;

EID: 77956210636     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2009.2025150     Document Type: Article

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