Abstract
This work presents a liquid crystal (LC) based phase shifter in a dielectric waveguide (DW) topology consisting of core and cladding for the W-band. For continuous tunability, a part of the core material is replaced by liquid crystal. Furthermore, suggestions of materials for designing such a DW, i.e. for core and cladding, are given in this paper. In comparison to other topologies, the advantage of this topology is that the necessary electric biasing can be realized easily, by placing electrodes directly on the cladding. With an electric biasing of ±550 V, a maximum differential phase shift of 430°, accompanied with insertion losses between 2.8 to 5.5 dB with standard WR10 connections, could be achieved. The maximum figure of merit is around 100 °/dB at 102 GHz.
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