Feasibility of a low-cost hybrid tunable
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Akil Jrad; Raffi Bourtoutian; Philippe Ferrari; Amer El Helwani
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract This paper presents the realization of a hybrid tunable phase shifter. The principle advantage of the hybrid approach is the low cost of the varactor diodes. The phase shifter employs a variable‐velocity transmission line obtained by periodically loading a coplanar waveguide (CPW) with