The present disclosure provides a phase shifter and a manufacturing method thereof, and an antenna. The phase shifter includes a first substrate and a second substrate, and a medium layer arranged between them. The first substrate includes a reference electrode arranged on a side of a first base substrate close to the medium layer, and the second substrate includes a delay line arranged on a side of a second base substrate close to the medium layer. An orthographic projection on the first substrate of the delay line at least partially overlaps with that of the reference electrode. A line spacing and/or a line width of the delay line is enable to make a cell thickness between the first substrate and the second substrate be 20 μm-75 μm.

The present disclosure relates to coupled slow-wave transmission lines. In this regard, a transmission line structure is provided. The transmission line structure includes a first undulating signal path formed from first loop structures. The transmission line structure also includes a second undulating signal path formed from second loop structures. The second undulating signal path is disposed alongside of the first undulating signal path. Further, a first ground structure is disposed above or below either one or both of the first undulating signal path and the second undulating signal path.

The present disclosure relates to a tunable slow-wave transmission line. The tunable slow-wave transmission line is formed in a multi-layer substrate and includes an undulating signal path. The undulating signal path includes at least two loop structures, wherein each loop structure includes at least two via structures connected by at least one intra-loop trace. The undulating signal path further includes at least one inter-loop trace connecting the at least two loop structures. The tunable slow-wave transmission line includes a first ground structure disposed along the undulating signal path. Further, the tunable slow-wave transmission line includes one or more circuits that may alter a signal transmitted in the tunable slow-wave transmission line so as to tune a frequency of the signal.

The present disclosure relates to a slow-wave transmission line for transmitting slow-wave signals with reduced loss. In this regard, the slow-wave transmission line is formed in a multi-layer substrate and includes an undulating signal path. The undulating signal path includes at least two loop structures, wherein each loop structure includes at least two via structures connected by at least one intra-loop trace. The undulating signal path further includes at least one inter-loop trace connecting the at least two loop structures. Additionally, the slow-wave transmission line includes a first ground structure disposed along the undulating signal path. In this manner, a loop inductance is formed by each of the at least two loop structures, while a first distributed capacitance is formed between the undulating signal path and the ground structure.

The suprastructure over a substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) can provide for beam scanning utilizing a reconfigurable metasurface. The reconfigurable metasurface will have a plurality of PIN diode arrays that can be turned ON and OFF. In one design, the length of the reconfigurable metasurface is effectively enlarged or reduced in size to achieve beam scanning. In another design the tilt angle of the reconfigurable metasurface is adjusted to achieve beam scanning. The suprastructure also can be modified with metallic offset wings, where two or more pairs of offset wing can form a horn shaped element. The presence of the wings or horn, as well as control of the size and number of the wings can improve the gain of the SIW. These two suprastructure improvements may be used in combination, and they may be used over classical slotted SIWs or over an SIW with curved sections between consecutive slots.

An electronic stripline circuit includes a flexible dielectric film having a three-dimensional coiled shape that defines a spiraled inner core. At least one electrically conductive signal trace is formed on a first surface of the flexible dielectric film. The signal trace extends along a signal path to define a trace length configured to control a time delay of a coiled time delay unit.

A liquid crystal antenna includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and liquid crystals arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate. First protrusions and second protrusions are arranged at a surface of the second substrate facing the first substrate, a size of each first protrusion in a first direction is substantially greater than a size of each second protrusion in the first direction, and the first direction is a direction perpendicularly from the second substrate to the first substrate. A run-through labyrinth-type gap is defined by the first protrusions at a surface of the second substrate, and each second protrusion is arranged in the labyrinth-type gap.

Provided is a liquid crystal phase shifting device including: a first substrate and a second substrate that are opposite to each other, wherein first protrusions is provided on a surface of the first substrate facing towards the second substrate, second protrusions is provided on a surface of the second substrate facing towards the first substrate, and the first protrusions and the second protrusions are alternately arranged; a microstrip line provided on the surface of the first substrate facing towards the second substrate, the microstrip line covering at least part of the first protrusions; first support pads provided between the first substrate and the second substrate; a ground electrode provided on the surface of the second substrate facing towards the first substrate, the ground electrode overlapping at least part of the second protrusions; and liquid crystal molecules provided between the microstrip line and the ground electrode.

The present disclosure provides a phase shifter and a manufacturing method thereof, and an antenna. The phase shifter includes a first substrate and a second substrate, and a medium layer arranged between them. The first substrate includes a reference electrode arranged on a side of a first base substrate close to the medium layer, and the second substrate includes a delay line arranged on a side of a second base substrate close to the medium layer. An orthographic projection on the first substrate of the delay line at least partially overlaps with that of the reference electrode. A line spacing and/or a line width of the delay line is enable to make a cell thickness between the first substrate and the second substrate be 20 μm-75 μm.

Provided is a liquid crystal phase shifting device including: a first substrate and a second substrate that are opposite to each other, wherein first protrusions is provided on a surface of the first substrate facing towards the second substrate, second protrusions is provided on a surface of the second substrate facing towards the first substrate, and the first protrusions and the second protrusions are alternately arranged; a microstrip line provided on the surface of the first substrate facing towards the second substrate, the microstrip line covering at least part of the first protrusions; first support pads provided between the first substrate and the second substrate; a ground electrode provided on the surface of the second substrate facing towards the first substrate, the ground electrode overlapping at least part of the second protrusions; and liquid crystal molecules provided between the microstrip line and the ground electrode.