Liquid crystals for signal processing applications in the microwave and millimeter wave frequency ranges

R Camley, Z Celinski, Y Garbovskiy… - Liquid Crystals …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Liquid crystal technology has a long well-established history of applications in visible light,
primarily in the display industry. In contrast, applications at lower frequencies (microwave …

Electrically tunable materials for microwave applications

A Ahmed, IA Goldthorpe, AK Khandani - Applied Physics Reviews, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Microwave devices based on tunable materials are of vigorous current interest. Typical
applications include phase shifters, antenna beam steering, filters, voltage controlled …

Liquid crystal phase shifters at millimeter wave frequencies

Y Garbovskiy, V Zagorodnii, P Krivosik… - Journal of Applied …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate an on-wafer liquid crystal phase shifter which has a tunable 0–300/cm
phase shift at 110 GHz. The results show no dispersion over the entire frequency range …

Design of new super-high birefringent isothiocyanato bistolanes–synthesis and properties

J Herman, P Kula - Liquid Crystals, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
We report the synthesis of new laterally ethyl-substituted high birefringent
phenylethynyltolane liquid crystals with alkylsulphanyl chain and isothiocyanate terminal …

High figure-of-merit compact phase shifters based on liquid crystal material for 1–10 GHz applications

L Cai, H Xu, J Li, D Chu - Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
A liquid crystal (LC) based tunable microstrip line (ML) phase shifter featuring high
performance is presented. The experimental results show an electrically tunable differential …

Liquid crystal-based wideband reconfigurable leaky wave X-band antenna

D Jiang, X Li, Z Fu, P Ran, G Wang, Z Zheng… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a pattern and frequency reconfigurable leaky wave X-band antenna based on
liquid crystal is designed. The frequency sweep characteristics of traditional leaky wave …

A circular patch resonator for the measurement of microwave permittivity of nematic liquid crystal

DE Schaub, DR Oliver - IEEE Transactions on Microwave …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a method of performing microwave characterizations of nematic liquid
crystals using a circular patch resonator and finite-element software. This technique, which …

Synthesis and properties of chosen 4-butyl-phenyltolane derivatives–on the influence of core substitution on birefringence, mesomorphic and dielectric properties

J Herman, P Harmata, O Strzeżysz… - Journal of Molecular …, 2018 - Elsevier
The synthesis and characterization of new liquid crystal (LC) compounds based on 4-[(4-
butyl-2, 6-difluorophenyl) ethynyl] biphenyl core are described. New family of dielectrically …

Multiphase LLC DC-Link Converter with Current Equalization Based on CM Voltage-Controlled Capacitor

YL Lee, KI Hwu - Energies, 2024 - mdpi.com
In this study, a current-equalization technology utilizing a variable-capacitance technique for
a multiphase inductor–inductor–capacitor (LLC) converter is studied. Accordingly, the …

Identifying dielectric and resistive electrode losses in high-density capacitors at radio frequencies

MPJ Tiggelman, K Reimann, J Liu… - 2008 IEEE …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A regression-based technique is presented which distinguishes the dielectric loss from the
resistive loss of high density planar capacitors in a very wide bandwidth of 0.1–8 GHz …