A Partially Magnetized Ferrite LTCC-Based SIW Phase Shifter for Phased Array Applications
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Ghaffar, Farhan A.
Shamim, Atif

KAUST Department
Electrical Engineering ProgramComputer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division
Integrated Microwave Packaging Antennas and Circuits Technology (IMPACT) Lab
Applied Mathematics and Computational Science Program
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2015-06Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/564183
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The theory and design of a half-mode substrate-integrated waveguide ferrite low-temperature cofired ceramic-based phase shifter are presented in this paper. Unlike typical ferrite-based designs, the biasing is done through embedded windings in a multi-layer substrate that not only obviates the requirement of bulky electromagnets, but also prevents loss of bias fields at the air-to-ferrite interface. The phase shifter is operated in the partially magnetized state of ferrite substrate. Through the combined effect of embedded windings, half-mode waveguide operation, and partially magnetized state, the required bias fields have been reduced by 90% as compared with conventional ferrite-based designs employing electromagnets. A complete analytical model, backed up by electromagnetic simulations and measured results from a prototype, is presented in this paper. The fabricated prototype demonstrates a phase shift of 83.2° at a center frequency of 13.1 GHz and a figure of merit of 83.2°/dB. As a proof-of-concept, the proposed phase shifter design is monolithically integrated with a two-element antenna array to demonstrate a measured beam steering of 30°. The phase shifter design is highly efficient in terms of required bias fields, and it has a small form factor and can be easily integrated with other electronic components and systems. © 1965-2012 IEEE.Citation
Ghaffar, F. A., & Shamim, A. (2015). A Partially Magnetized Ferrite LTCC-Based SIW Phase Shifter for Phased Array Applications. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 51(6), 1–8. doi:10.1109/tmag.2015.2404303Journal
IEEE Transactions on Magneticsae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1109/TMAG.2015.2404303