Compact, low-loss, wideband, and high-power handling phase shifters with piezoelectric transducer-controlled metallic perturber

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 60, Issue 6 PART 1, 2012, Pages 1587-1594

  Wu, Jing ^a   Lou, Jing ^a   Li, Ming ^a   Yang, Guomin ^b   Yang, Xi ^a   Adams, Jason ^a   Sun, Nian X ^a  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Meander line; perturber; phase shifter; piezoelectric transducers (PETs)

Indexed keywords

COMPACT SIZE; CONTROL VOLTAGES; HIGH-POWER; LOW INSERTION LOSS; MEANDER LINE; OPERATION FREQUENCY; PERTURBER; WIDE-BAND;

PHASE SHIFT; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS;

PHASE SHIFTERS;

EID: 84861810239     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2012.2189240     Document Type: Article

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