학술논문

Metamaterial tunable filter with liquid metal
Document Type
Conference
Source
2013 IEEE 26th International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), 2013 IEEE 26th International Conference on. :725-728 Jan, 2013
Subject
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Metamaterials
Metals
Liquids
Magnetic materials
Optical filters
Tuning
Acceleration
Language
ISSN
1084-6999
Abstract
In this paper, we demonstrate a metamaterial tunable filter with liquid metal, which can be tuned by adjusting the size and position of the air gap within the liquid metal. In experiment, it measures a 2.3 GHz tuning range for the tunable metmaterial unit with the working wavelength of 8.9 GHz. The tuning of 5 × 5 unit array is also demonstrated. Different from traditional metamaterials [1, 2], the metal patterns of the tunable metamaterial filter are liquid state which can be reshaped once fabricated. The liquid state metal pattern not only advances in flexible tuning method, but also results in large tuning range for vast applications, such as tunable filter, accelerometer and optical switch.