Millimetre-wave beam steering with analog-resolution and minimised distortion based on liquid crystals tunable delay lines with enhanced signal-to-noise ratios
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Author(s)
Li, Jinfeng
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Millimetre-wave beam-steering distortions are due mainly to unbalanced feeding amplitudes among the delay lines network. To compensate for this, active amplifiers or attenuators are employed, increasing the circuit complexity and costs, whilst compromising the passive array advantage. This work presents a passive millimetre-wave distortion-free beam steering solution with analog resolution in liquid crystal planar delay line technology. Enclosed coplanar waveguide (ECPW) tunable delay lines with 0-180˚ and 0-360˚ phase-shifting ranges are prototyped respectively. A novel impedance matching and mismatching approach for amplitude compensation is proposed and verified, as evidenced by the 67 GHz measured maximum insertion loss of –4.37 dB (variation up to 5%) for the 0-180˚ delay line, and –8.28 dB (variation up to 8%) for the 0-360˚ device. Based on a smart combination of the 0-180˚ and 0-360˚ ECPW, an optimised delay lines deployment scheme is proposed for two-dimensional beam steering with a fault tolerance capability and a minimised systematic insertion loss in total on the feeding network.
Date Issued
2020-09-20
Date Acceptance
2020-07-16
Citation
Proceedings of SPIE, 2020, 11541
ISSN
0277-786X
Publisher
Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers
Journal / Book Title
Proceedings of SPIE
Volume
11541
Copyright Statement
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Source
SPIE Security + Defence: Millimetre Wave and Terahertz Sensors and Technology XIII
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2020-09-21
Coverage Spatial
Edinburgh, UK
Date Publish Online
2020-09-20