Millimetre-wave beam steering with analog-resolution and minimised distortion based on liquid crystals tunable delay lines with enhanced signal-to-noise ratios

Jinfeng Li

doi:10.1117/12.2570001

20 September 2020 Millimetre-wave beam steering with analog-resolution and minimised distortion based on liquid crystals tunable delay lines with enhanced signal-to-noise ratios

Jinfeng Li

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Proceedings Volume 11541, Millimetre Wave and Terahertz Sensors and Technology XIII; 115410H (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2570001
Event: SPIE Security + Defence, 2020, Online Only

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.

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Jinfeng Li "Millimetre-wave beam steering with analog-resolution and minimised distortion based on liquid crystals tunable delay lines with enhanced signal-to-noise ratios", Proc. SPIE 11541, Millimetre Wave and Terahertz Sensors and Technology XIII, 115410H (20 September 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2570001

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