Design and Implementation of highly efficient Reflective type phase shifters (RTPS) at 60GHz has been proposed in this work. Low loss cost effective design which utilizes less chip area is proposed. At high frequencies, to improve the efficiency of the communication system highly directional high gain antennas have to be used. Phase shifters are one of the most important elements in phased arra...

This paper is aimed at demonstrating the high capabilities of KTa0.5Nb0.5O3 thin films for microwave agility applications. Tunable capacitors, resonators and phase shifters were realized with KTN materials. Their high frequency measurements showed, in particular, the very high tuning factors of these films under quite low electric field. Index Terms Ferroelectrics, Interdigital Capacitors, Phas...

Linac accelerators based on independently phased resonators require precise phase shifters to setup the reference phase of each cavity with respect to the master oscillator. In a linac like ALPI, that has more than 80 resonators in operation (including those of the new PIAVE injector), the cost of such phase shifters represents a significant fraction of the cost of the overall RF control system...

We present a comprehensive study on how to design and fabricate low loss electro-optic phase shifters based on an electro-optic polymer and the silicon nitride and silicon oxynitride waveguide material systems. The loss mechanisms of phase shifters with an electro-optic (EO) polymer cladding are analyzed in detail and design solutions to achieve lowest losses are presented. In order to verify t...

A scheme to achieve a wideband linearized silicon Mach-Zehnder (MZ) modulator is proposed. The modulator consists of a single MZ interferometer with identical reverse-biased silicon diode phase shifters in both arms, driven in a push-pull configuration. It is shown that the 3rd order nonlinearity of the modulator can be eliminated by canceling the nonlinearities from the silicon phase shifters ...

This article presents a phased array antenna employing MEMS phase shifter. The proposed phased array antenna consists of eight square patch antennas operating at 10.4 GHz with a bandwidth of 400 MHz. Feed line for each patch passes through a MEMS phase shifter realized by a series of bridges above the transmission line. The distance between the bridge and the transmission line underneath it is ...

We present reflective phase shifters based on high contrast gratings resting on a low-index spacer backed by a metallic mirror. The guided resonance of the grating combined with the reflection from the metallic mirror leads to an all-pass filter with 2π phase shift variation and unity reflectivity across the resonance. We present simulations, fabrication and measurement of passive devices fabri...

In this paper, two novel hybrid beamforming methods are proposed to reduce the cost and power consumption of hybrid beamformers with subconnected phase shifter network structure in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. This is achieved by replacing some of the phase shifters with switches which, in general, are cheaper and have lower power consumption compared to phase shifters...

Coplanar waveguide transmission lines have been used to show that the temperature dependent properties of Ba 0.5 Sr 0.5 TiO 3 thin films used for microwave phase shifters in the frequency range 45 MHz– 50 GHz are correlated strongly with the microstructure of the films. The highest tunability and figure of merit of the phase shifters were obtained for films with the narrowest ferroelectric-para...