Abstract

This Letter presents a novel continuously tunable microwave resonator based on liquid crystal (LC) material. The reconfigurable device is implemented in Decoupled Empty Substrate Integrated Waveguide (DESIW) technology. DESIW technology allows both magnetic and electric DC (or low frequency) biasing of the LC. The resonator is continuously tunable in a range of 600 MHz, resulting in a measured tunability range of 8.5% around a centre frequency of 7 GHz. Moreover, the measured insertion loss of the reconfigurable device is between 4.3 and 6.8 dB, thus obtaining a Q-factor of 190-172.

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