In the microwave frequency band the conductivity of graphene can be varied to design a number of tunable components. A tunable phase shifter based on commercial graphene nanoplatelets is introduced. The proposed configuration consists of a microstrip line with two stubs connected with a taper. On each side of the stubs there is a gap, short circuited through a via, where the commercial graphene nanoplatelets are drop casted. By applying a DC bias voltage that alters the graphene resistance the phase of the transmitted signal through the microstrip line can be varied. In order to maximize the phase shift of the transmitted signal and minimize the insertion loss, the length of the taper and the stubs are optimized by the help of circuit model and full-wave simulations. A prototype working at 4GHz is fabricated and measured. A phase variation of 33 degrees is acquired with an amplitude variation of less than 0.4dB.
Dynamically tunable phase shifter with commercial graphene nanoplatelets / Yasir, M.; Savi, Patrizia. - In: MICROMACHINES. - ISSN 2072-666X. - ELETTRONICO. - (2020), pp. 1-11. [10.3390/mi11060600]
Titolo: | Dynamically tunable phase shifter with commercial graphene nanoplatelets | |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2020 | |
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi11060600 | |
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