A tunable amplifier using reconfigurable liquid-metal double-stub tuners
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Morishita, Andy M.; Dang, Jonathan H.; Gough, Ryan C.; Ohta, Aaron T.; Shiroma, Wayne A.
- Source
- 2015 Texas Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems (WMCS) Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems (WMCS), 2015 Texas Symposium on. :1-4 Apr, 2015
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Photonics and Electrooptics
Liquids
Tuners
Copper
Microstrip
Transistors
Polyimides
Reconfigurable amplifier
liquid metal
continuous electrowetting
- Language
A tunable amplifier using reconfigurable liquid-metal double-stub tuners is presented. The impedance tuners are implemented using liquid-metal slugs that are electrically actuated using continuous electrowetting. The amplifier can be configured to multiple frequency states from 3.37 to 6.02 GHz by adjusting the physical lengths of the liquid-metal double-stub tuners.