Abstract
This letter presents a gap-waveguide phase shifter based on ridged unit
cells with glide-symmetric configuration. The proposed unit cell design
provides a higher stable phase shift compared to a conventional ridged
unit cell whose ridge height and waveguide width are tuned to achieve a
stable phase shift. Through the insertion of glide-symmetric holes with
semi-circle base in the ridged waveguide, a stable phase shift in a wide
frequency range is achieved. Depending on the radii of the holes, the
operating frequency range of the phase shifter can be tuned. A
90o phase shifter in millimeter-wave range is designed
and manufactured to validate the analysis. The experimental results
reveal a 85o +- 5o phase shift from
33 GHz to 43 GHz (26.3% bandwidth). In this bandwidth, the reflection
coefficient is below -10 dB with a maximum insertion loss of 0.7 dB.