期刊名称:International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA)
印刷版ISSN:2158-107X
电子版ISSN:2156-5570
出版年度:2018
卷号:9
期号:11
DOI:10.14569/IJACSA.2018.091178
出版社:Science and Information Society (SAI)
摘要:An electronically reconfigurable phase shifter using two Schiffman sections is performed for beam steering applications in Ku band. The proposed phase shifter consists of only two cascaded coupled-line sections with the reference line removed. This circuit is loaded by varactor diodes that ensure its tunability over a wide bandwidth. By supplying these varactor diodes with suitable bias voltages, a phase shift is continuously adjusted and reached up to 168° at 12.7 GHz with low insertion losses according to the simulations. Thus, the proposed two-stage phase shifter is able to reach a beam steering angle of 28.6° at 12.7 GHz with only one control voltage. The proposed structure exhibits that our phase shifter has a compact size and a large phase shifting range throughout the Ku band. The tunable phase shifter is prototyped and the measurement results are presented.