Liquid crystal millimeter wave electronic phase shifter

Abstract

The birefringence of two common nematic liquid crystals were measured in the millimeter wave range, and were found to be in the range of 0.19–0.22 at room temperature. Using liquid crystal electro- and magneto-optical effects, we present the first experimental data of a novel liquid crystal millimeter wave electronic phase shifter. Our experiments show that liquid crystals could play an important role in future millimeter wave device technologies.