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A strain engineered voltage tunable millimeter-wave ferrite phase shifter

✍ Scribed by A. S. Tatarenko; G. Srinivasan


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
409 KB
Volume
53
Category
Article
ISSN
0895-2477

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Abstract

A 50‐GHz electric field tunable ferrite‐piezoelectric phase shifter based on a bilayer of single crystal M‐type hexagonal barium ferrite (BaM) and lead zirconate titanate (PZT) is discussed.A dc voltage applied to PZT results in a piezoelectric strain that manifests as an anisotropy field in BaM. A change in the voltage applied to PZT gives rise to variations in the anisotropy field and permeability of BaM and, therefore, a differential phase shift. A phase shift of 45° is measured when the voltage is increased from 0 to 400 V across a 0.5‐mm thick PZT. Theoretical estimates of the phase shift are in agreement with the data. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 53:261–264, 2011; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com. DOI 10.1002/mop.25725