Low-Loss Ku-Band Artificial Transmission Line With MEMS Tuning Capability

Author

Perruisseau-Carrier, Julien ; Topalli, Kagan ; Akin, Tayfun

Author_Institution

Centre Tecnol. de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Barcelona

Volume

19

Issue

6

fYear

2009

fDate

6/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

377

Lastpage

379

Abstract

An artificial transmission line unit cell is presented based on the so-called composite right/left handed transmission line. It is implemented on a microelectromechanical system process on glass, and is suitable for applications such as reconfigurable leaky-wave antennas and series feed networks. The device presents state-of-the-art performance in terms of differential phase shift over losses (38^deg/dB at 14 GHz) and quasi-zero drive power consumption. It is monolithic and has a total footprint of 4 mm².

Keywords

circuit tuning; low-power electronics; micromechanical devices; transmission lines; MEMS tuning capability; composite right-left handed transmission line; differential phase shift; frequency 14 GHz; low-loss Ku-band artificial transmission line; microelectromechanical system; quasizero drive power consumption; reconfigurable leaky-wave antennas; series feed networks; Artificial transmission line; composite right/left-handed (CRLH); metamaterial; microelectromechanical system (MEMS); reconfigurable;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1531-1309

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LMWC.2009.2020022

Filename

4967847