This article presents the response of RF microelectromechanical systems (RF MEMS), barium strontium titanate (BST), and gallium arsenide (GaAs)-based tunable filters and reconfigurable matching networks to a wideband code-division-multiple-access signal centered at 1.95 GHz. The RF MEMS tunable filter and impedance tuner result in very low intermodulation distortion and spectral regrowth compar...

Optical properties of sol-gel deposited Barium Strontium Titanate (BaxSr1-xTiO3, BST) thin films were studied to determine their suitability as light sensors. Crystallized BST formed by annealing in air at 700 °C for 1 h. Lattice parameters and grain sizes determined all the compositions. The band gap refractive index values samples from optical transmission spectra different Band compositions ...

Barium strontium titante (BST) is an important dielectric material because of its high tunability (dielectric constant as a function of applied voltage) and low loss, with specific applications in tunable microwave circuits. However, regardless of processing technique, additives, or synthesis temperatures some remnant ferroelectricity is always observed beyond the paraelectric phase transition ...

A fast ferroelectric phase shifter controlled by an electric field bias is being investigated for high-power fast RF phase shifters to be used for vector modulation. Such a device could find applications in particle accelerators, allowing vector control of the RF power divided and delivered to accelerating cavities from a power amplifier. Bulk ferroelectric materials, particularly those based o...

In this work, a broad overview in the field of strontium titanate (ST, SrTiO3)-, barium (BT, BaTiO3)- and (BST, BaSrTiO3)-based gas sensors is presented discussed. The above-mentioned materials are characterized by perovskite structure with long-term stability therefore very promising for commercial gas-sensing applications. Within last 20 years, number papers where ST, BT BST were tested as ga...

Perovskite-structure-type sol-gel barium-strontium-titanate (BST) thin films with molar formula BaxSr1−xTiO3 (x = 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, and 0.8) have been successfully fabricated as Al/BST/Pt capacitors. In order to study the role of the grain size in the conduction mechanisms, we present atomic force microscopy (AFM) results. The impedance and the electric modulus of BaxSr1−xTiO3 thin films have been...

A non-linear thermodynamic analysis of ferroelectric systems with localized space charges for monolithic and compositionally graded materials is described wherein the electrostatic interlayer interactions are specifically accounted for. The electrostatic coupling is established through the built-in polarization due to the space charges and the intrinsic polarization variations between the ferro...

Barium Strontium Titanate (BST) is under consideration as a high dielectric constant material for a number of semiconductor applications. Because of its very large dielectric constant, BST is seen as an enabling material that will allow the continual &inking of integrated circuits and progression along the path of Moore’s Law [l]. The electrical behavior of BST is extremely dependent upon its m...

Helical antennas have been a popular antenna configuration for various applications for its simple structure. This work describes the study on a novel, custom-shaped dielectric loaded helical antenna incorporated on an advanced material, which is Barium Strontium Titanate (BST). This material, which presents the researcher with an advantage in size reduction due to its high relative permittivit...