TY - GEN
T1 - Reconfigurable Series Feed Network for Squint-free Antenna Beamforming Using Distributed Amplifier-Based Negative Group Delay Circuit
AU - Zhu, Minning
AU - Wu, Chung Tse Michael
PY - 2019/10
Y1 - 2019/10
N2 - A new type of tunable series feed network for squint-free antenna beamforming using microwave distributed amplifier (DA)-based negative group delay (NGD) circuits is proposed. Utilizing the DA-based NGD circuits as delay lines between elements in an antenna array, squint-free beamforming with reconfigurable radiation main beams can be achieved. The tuning mechanism is realized by changing the transistor's transconductance. To achieve this, the transistors placed at each stage of the DA are tuned separately. For the proof of concept, a prototype of a two-stage DA-based tunable squint-free series feed network built and tested. The measurement results show that, the main-beam direction of the antenna array can be successfully tuned while maintaining squint-free within a bandwidth of 100 MHz.
AB - A new type of tunable series feed network for squint-free antenna beamforming using microwave distributed amplifier (DA)-based negative group delay (NGD) circuits is proposed. Utilizing the DA-based NGD circuits as delay lines between elements in an antenna array, squint-free beamforming with reconfigurable radiation main beams can be achieved. The tuning mechanism is realized by changing the transistor's transconductance. To achieve this, the transistors placed at each stage of the DA are tuned separately. For the proof of concept, a prototype of a two-stage DA-based tunable squint-free series feed network built and tested. The measurement results show that, the main-beam direction of the antenna array can be successfully tuned while maintaining squint-free within a bandwidth of 100 MHz.
KW - Antenna array
KW - distributed amplifier (DA)
KW - negative group delay (NGD)
KW - squint-free beamforming
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U2 - 10.23919/EuMC.2019.8910773
DO - 10.23919/EuMC.2019.8910773
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - 2019 49th European Microwave Conference, EuMC 2019
SP - 256
EP - 259
BT - 2019 49th European Microwave Conference, EuMC 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 49th European Microwave Conference, EuMC 2019
Y2 - 1 October 2019 through 3 October 2019
ER -