Title
Electrically Tunable Liquid Crystal Coplanar Waveguide Stepped-Impedance Resonator
Abstract
A tunable stepped-impedance resonator using liquid crystal is demonstrated. Two resonant frequencies at 3.367 and 7.198 GHz are realized and can be continuously tuned by external applied voltages. Continuous tunable ranges of 52 and 210 MHz have been achieved at a particularly low driving voltage of 14 V, which shows good agreement with the simulation results. The voltage-induced hysteresis phenomenon is also investigated. This device also has a low insertion loss of -2.9 and -4 dB for the two resonant frequencies and the return losses are less than -21.5 dB. This work provides a new protocol to realize a tunable frequency for communication systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1631/FITEE.2000278
FRONTIERS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Tunable stepped-impedance resonator (SIR), Liquid crystal, Coplanar waveguide (CPW), TN99
Journal
22
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
9
2095-9184
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xingye Fan100.34
Ruozhou Li200.34
Jing Yan300.34
Yuming Fang400.34
Ying Yu500.34