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ArticleScientific reports2021

Air-bridged Schottky diodes for dynamically tunable millimeter-wave metamaterial phase shifters.

Evangelos Vassos, James Churm, Jeff Powell, Colin Viegas, Byron Alderman, Alexandros Feresidis

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Evangelos VassosDepartment of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2SA, UK. exv762@student.bham.ac.uk.
James ChurmDepartment of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2SA, UK.
Jeff PowellDepartment of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2SA, UK.
Colin ViegasTeratech Components Ltd., STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, Oxford, OX11 0QX, UK.
Byron AldermanTeratech Components Ltd., STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, Oxford, OX11 0QX, UK.
Alexandros FeresidisDepartment of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2SA, UK.

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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/S007903/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A low loss metamaterial unit cell is presented with an integrated GaAs air-bridged Schottky diode to produce a dynamically tunable reflective phase shifter that is capable of up to 250° phase shift with an experimentally measured average loss of 6.2 dB at V-band. The air-bridged Schottky diode provides a tuneable capacitance in the range between 30 and 50 fF under an applied reverse voltage bias. This can be used to alter the resonant frequency and phase response of a split patch unit cell of a periodic metasurface. The air-bridged diode die, which is flip-chip soldered to the patch, has ultra-low parasitic capacitance and resistance. Simulated and measured results are presented which verify the potential for the attainment of diode switching speeds with acceptable losses at mmWave frequencies. Furthermore the study shows that this diode-based unit cell can be integrated into metamaterial components, which have potential applications in future mmWave antenna beam-steering, intelligent reflecting surfaces for 6G communications, reflect-arrays, transmit-arrays or holographic antennas.

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PMCPMC7971036

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