Abstract: A multi-port phase shifter includes a ground, a first line on one surface of the ground, a second line on the other surface of the ground, a third line spaced at a predetermined distance from the upper surface of the first line and facing a part of the first line, and a fourth line spaced at a predetermined distance from the upper surface of the second line and facing a part of the second line. A via hole penetrates the ground. A power supply line on the one surface of the ground includes a region having the via hole. Multiple ports make the phase shifter applicable to a sector antenna for obtaining a high gain. Phase shifter volume can be reduced by implementing multiple ports in one phase shifter without coupling two or more phase shifters, thereby eliminating an additional component such as a fixing pole or a connecting pole.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies and discloses a phase shifter and a feed network. The phase shifter includes at least one phase shift component. The phase shift component includes a substrate, a microstrip coupling structure disposed on a first plane of the substrate, a microstrip transmission line connected to and coplanar with the microstrip coupling structure, and a microstrip/coplanar-waveguide coupling structure, where the microstrip/coplanar-waveguide coupling structure includes a microstrip connected to and coplanar with the microstrip transmission line, and a coplanar waveguide disposed opposite to the microstrip on the substrate and coupled with the microstrip. A phase shifter using a microstrip/coplanar-waveguide coupling structure has a small volume and costs low, thereby facilitating feed network design.

Abstract: This paper discloses an adjustable phase shifting device for antenna array as well as an antenna array, the device including a branched network of feed lines containing transformer portions of varying width for reducing reflection of signals passing through the network and coupling the common input port with the output ports placed along the first edge of the device via one or more junctions and including portions of feed lines placed along the second edge of the device, the dielectric members mounted on one rod adjacent to these portions of feed lines and can be moved along ones to synchronously adjust the phase relationship between the output ports, the dielectric members having one or more transformer portions for reducing reflection of signals passing through the network, wherein the dielectric member mounted adjacent to portions of feed lines placed along the second edge of the device and connected with the first junction from input port contains transformer portions at both ends and other dielectric mem

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a phase shifting apparatus and an electrically adjustable antenna. The phase shifting apparatus comprises a grounding plate; two bottom substrates respectively arranged on both sides of the grounding plate and coupled to the grounding plate; two top substrates respectively arranged on both sides of the two bottom substrates, wherein each of the top substrates and each of the bottom substrates form a phase shifting unit; a rod coupled to the two top substrates for adjusting a relative sliding movement between the two top substrates and the two bottom substrates so as to simultaneously adjust a phase of the output signal of each phase shifting unit.

Abstract: An actuator assembly for adjusting attributes of an antenna array. The actuator assembly provides a multi-RET actuator including a plurality of linear actuators, each including an actuator spur gear, a carriage assembly with an actuator drive motor mounted on a car and a nut attached to the car. A positioning motor is coupled to a lead screw and the nut is threaded onto the lead screw. The car travels on a guide so that the positioning motor and lead screw may be operated to bring the carriage assembly into engagement with a desired one of the linear actuators.

Abstract: An electrical device includes at least one graphene quantum capacitance varactor. In some examples, the graphene quantum capacitance varactor includes an insulator layer, a graphene layer disposed on the insulator layer, a dielectric layer disposed on the graphene layer, a gate electrode formed on the dielectric layer, and at least one contact electrode disposed on the graphene layer and making electrical contact with the graphene layer. In other examples, the graphene quantum capacitance varactor includes an insulator layer, a gate electrode recessed in the insulator layer, a dielectric layer formed on the gate electrode, a graphene layer formed on the dielectric layer, wherein the graphene layer comprises an exposed surface opposite the dielectric layer, and at least one contact electrode formed on the graphene layer and making electrical contact with the graphene layer.

Abstract: A steerable high-power microwave beam array includes an optical sub-system comprising a laser and an optical time delay unit and a parallel set of RF time delay units. The optical system and/or the RF delay subsystem are utilized to precisely delay the pulses from the microwave antenna elements to provide steerable beam forming.

Abstract: A channel to be coupled to an input of a receiver, the channel including: a first transmission line including: a first trace; and a first reference plane including a plurality of first pattern voids overlapping the first trace.

Abstract: Designing phase shifters having small insertion loss and footprint for mm-wave applications is challenging. The disclosed methods and devices provide solutions to overcome such challenge. Devices based on limited ground coplanar waveguide structure are also disclosed wherein the 180° phase shift is created using through and changeover mm-wave switches.

Abstract: A high powered armor panel having the wideband embedded antenna for operation in severe environmental conditions. The armor panel comprises a driven bowtie dipole electrically coupled to at least one driven resistor, a parasitic bowtie dipole electrically coupled to at least one parasitic resistor, a composite structure which has the driven bowtie dipole and the parasitic bowtie dipole embedded therein, a heat sink supported on a first side of the composite structure for dissipating heat, and an armor layer supported on an opposite second first side of the composite structure. The heat sink supports the at least one driven resistor electrically coupled to the driven bowtie dipole and the at least one parasitic resistor electrically coupled to the parasitic bowtie dipole.

Abstract: A method for fabricating microstrip line structure is disclosed. First, a substrate is provided, ground patterns are formed on the substrate, an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer is formed on the ground patterns, contact plugs are formed in the ILD layer, a ground plate is formed on the ILD layer, and a signal line is formed on the ground plate. Preferably, the ground plate includes openings that are completely shielded by the ground patterns.

Abstract: A tunable phase shifter is provided which includes a dielectric substrate, a transmission line formed based on the dielectric substrate for carrying input and output signals and a dielectric disturber placed on top of the transmission line. The phase shifter further includes a phase shifting mechanism for adjusting at least one of a distance between the transmission line and the substrate and a distance between the transmission line and the dielectric disturber to effect phase shift.

Abstract: A substrate integrated waveguide switch and a method of operating the substrate integrated waveguide switch are disclosed. In an embodiment a system includes a dielectric substrate and a switch supported by the dielectric substrate, the switch comprising at least one first transmission path, at least one first switching element in each of the at least one first transmission path, a second transmission path, and at least one second switching element in the second transmission path.

Abstract: An adjustable constant impedance phase shifter is provided. In the adjustable constant impedance phase shifter a conductive circuit path is arranged between a conductive sheet and a parallel plane that is parallel to the conductive sheet; an edge of a dielectric plate and an edge of a conductive plate are adjoined such that the dielectric plate and the conductive plate form a slide member; and the slide member is movably arranged along a slide path between the circuit element and the conductive sheet so that any point of the conducting circuit path is consistently enclosed between the slide member and the parallel plane, and so that the relative permittivity of a medium adjacent to a point on the conductive circuit path is simultaneously changed as the slide member is moved.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system for receiving telemetry information from an apparatus that induces electromagnetic waves on a wire surface of a wire of a power grid for delivery of communication signals to a recipient communication device coupled to the power grid, and detecting a condition from the telemetry information that is adverse to a delivery of the communication signals to the recipient communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: Tunable phase shifters and methods for using the same include a signal line; one or more grounding lines; one or more crossing lines below the signal line in proximity to the signal line and substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the signal line, where the crossing lines conform to the shape of the signal line along at least three surfaces of the signal line and where the crossing lines have a tunable capacitance; and an inductance return line below the crossing lines substantially parallel to the longitudinal direction of the signal line, where the inductance return line provides a tunable inductance.

Abstract: An electronic device may include components that are formed using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology. A MEMS device may include a MEMS structure bonded to a semiconductor substrate. The MEMS structure may be formed from a silicon substrate having a cavity and a moveable member suspended over the cavity and free to oscillate within the cavity. The semiconductor substrate may be a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor substrate having circuitry such as sensing electrodes. The sensing electrodes may be used to gather signals that are produced by movement of the suspended member. One or more of the electrodes on the semiconductor substrate may be covered by a dielectric film to prevent electrical shorts between adjacent electrodes on the semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: A balun transformer includes an input terminal into which an unbalanced signal is input, a converter that includes at least a first signal line connected to the input terminal and that converts the unbalanced signal into a balanced signal, a first output terminal connected to the first signal line, a second output terminal from which the balanced signal is output, the balanced signal being also output from the first output terminal, and a capacitor connected between the input terminal and the second output terminal.

Abstract: The invention provides a wireless transmission apparatus, a phase compensating apparatus, and a phase compensating method thereof. The phase compensating apparatus includes main transmission wire, a plurality of capacitors, and at least one phase compensating unit. The main transmission wire is coupled between the output end of the power amplifier and the input end of the impedance matching apparatus. A first end of each of the capacitors is coupled to the main transmission wire. The phase compensating unit has two ends for being coupled to second ends of two of the capacitors.

Abstract: An antenna sub-array for use in an antenna array having a plurality of such sub-arrays includes a stripline for signal distribution, the stripline defining a plurality of signal pathways from a common feed point to a plurality of radiating elements, wherein the stripline is housed in a first support structure located a distance away from a first surface of a ground plane structure.

Abstract: Multi-layer, multi-material fabrication methods include depositing at least one structural material and at least one sacrificial material during the formation of each of a plurality of layers wherein deposited materials for each layer are planarized to set a boundary level for the respective layer and wherein during formation of at least one layer at least three materials are deposited with a planarization operation occurring before deposition of the last material to set a planarization level above the layer boundary level and wherein a planarization occurs after deposition of the last material level above the layer boundary level and wherein a planarization occurs after deposition of the last material whereby the boundary level for the layer is set. Some formation processes use electrochemical fabrication techniques (e.g. including selective depositions, bulk depositions, etching operations and planarization operations) and post-deposition processes (e.g.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a phase shifting apparatus, including a first conductor section, a first tapping element, a feeder unit, and a dielectric element, where: the feeder unit is electrically connected to the first tapping element; the first tapping element is electrically connected to the first conductor section; the first tapping element is capable of moving along the first conductor section to change a phase of a signal that flows through the feeder unit, the first tapping element, and the first conductor section; and the dielectric element is disposed at a position near the first conductor section. With the phase shifting apparatus in the embodiments of the present invention, the dielectric element is disposed in order to increase an electrical length of a conductor, which correspondingly reduces a physical length of the conductor, so that the size of the phase shifting apparatus is reduced.

Abstract: In a phased array antenna that has a configuration in which a plurality of antenna panels, in each of which a plurality of antenna elements are arrayed, are connected in the form of a plane and that radiates power transmission microwaves in the arrival direction of a pilot signal sent from an electric-power receiving facility (rectenna system), by controlling the phases of signals input to and output from the antenna elements. An arithmetic processing section, which is provided in each of the antenna panels, calculates the phase shifts of power transmission microwaves to be radiated from the antenna elements. Then, the phase information indicating the phase shifts calculated by the arithmetic processing section is sent to at least three adjacent antenna panels by a transmission and reception section provided in each of the antenna panels.

Abstract: An electronically variable analog delay line including at least one segment with an electronically variable inductance. The at least one segment includes a signal path, a ground return path, and a plurality of switches configured to vary the inductance of the segment.

Abstract: An antenna device includes a plurality of phase shift circuits to which distributed signals are respectively input and a plurality of antenna elements to which signals output from the respective phase shift circuits are input. At least one of the plurality of phase shift circuits has a signal line in which a first region in which paired dielectric members are disposed, a second region in which no paired dielectric members is disposed and a third region in which paired dielectric members are disposed are provided in this order along a propagation direction of a signal. Moreover, a characteristic impedance of the first region in a state where the paired dielectric members are not disposed and a characteristic impedance of the third region in a state where the paired dielectric members are not disposed are higher than a characteristic impedance of the second region.

Abstract: Provided are radio frequency electromagnetic energy switches and processes of regulating the transmission of RF energy, that for the first time successfully employ a ChG PCM as a RF switching material.

Abstract: A reconfigurable rat race coupler and methods of designing and reconfiguring the rat race coupler are disclosed. The reconfigurable rat race coupler, includes a plurality of transmission lines. The plurality of transmission lines include: a first transmission line and a second transmission line each of which comprise a phase shifter; and a third transmission line and a fourth transmission line each of which comprise phase shifters. A signal input on port 1 is provided between the phase shifters on the third transmission line, which is split between ports 2 and 3, with port 4 being isolated and port 2 being between the phase shifters on the fourth transmission line.

Abstract: Techniques capable of reducing the width-direction size of a phase shift circuit as much as possible are provided. A phase shift circuit has a signal line, a first dielectric plate, and a second dielectric plate. The signal line has first to third intersecting parts extending in a direction intersecting with a longitudinal direction of the phase shift circuit. On the other hand, the first dielectric plate and the second dielectric plate have first to third overlapping parts overlapping the intersecting parts of the signal line. When the first dielectric plate and the second dielectric plate are moved in the longitudinal direction of the phase shift circuit, the overlapped areas between the intersecting parts of the signal line and the overlapping parts of the first dielectric plate and the second dielectric plate are changed.

Abstract: A sampling device comprising a first input port and a second input port, wherein an input-signal is fed to the first input port and wherein an optical clock signal is fed to the second input port. The sampling device comprises a plurality of track and hold units, wherein each of the plurality of track and hold units is connected to the first input port. The plurality of the track and hold units is further connected to the second input port through an optical waveguide in such a manner that the plurality of tack and hold units operate in a time-interleaved mode.

Abstract: A radio frequency characteristics measurement jig device includes: a ground conductor part; a first coplanar line; a connection substrate; and a holding part. The first coplanar line includes a first dielectric layer, a first center conductive layer and first ground conductive layers. The connection substrate includes a second dielectric layer, a second center conductive layer, second ground conductive layers, and a third ground conductive layer. The holding part is configured to press the connection substrate to the first coplanar line and the signal terminal so as to allow electrical continuity between the first center conductive layer and the second center conductive layer on the first region, to allow electrical continuity between the first ground conductive layer and the second ground conductive layer, and to allow electrical continuity between the second center conductive layer on the second region and the signal terminal.

Abstract: Multiple phase shifting elements which include electrically conductive, slidable tuning members may be placed on a single circuit board. The elements may be used to adjust the phase of signals propagating through a multi-element antenna array.

Abstract: A passive phased array imager includes a plurality of antennas, disposed on a substrate, for receiving a wavefront from a target; and a coplanar waveguide, disposed in the substrate and coupled to the plurality of antennas. Also included is a plurality of detectors, disposed across the coplanar waveguide for sampling the received wavefront, and providing multiple output voltages to an imaging circuit for displaying information contained in the received wavefront. The plurality of antennas includes at least two dipoles coupled to the coplanar waveguide, and the two dipoles are spaced by a predetermined length to provide a standing wave at a frequency of interest.

Abstract: A phase shifting device is disclosed. The phase shifting device comprises an input operable to receive an input signal to be adjusted; a coupling device coupled with the input and with an output; and at least one lumped equivalent impedance transformer circuit coupled with the coupling device to receive the input signal, the lumped equivalent impedance transformer circuit having liquid crystal variable capacitors operable to adjust the input signal in response to a bias voltage applied thereto and to provide the adjusted input signal to the coupling device as an output signal. Rather than using a microstrip structure, a lumped element equivalent is instead used, which makes it possible to exploit the advantages of a liquid crystal structure but in a more compact form.

Abstract: A printed wiring board includes a core substrate having a cavity and having first and second surfaces, an inductor component accommodated in the cavity, a filler resin filling a gap formed between the substrate and component in the cavity, and a buildup layer formed on the first surface of the substrate and the component. The component has a coil layer, a second insulation layer formed on the coil layer, an electrode formed on the substance layer, and a via conductor formed in the substance layer and connecting the coil layer and the electrode, the component is accommodated in the cavity such that the electrode faces the first surface of the substrate, and the buildup layer includes an interlayer insulation layer formed on the first surface of the substrate and the component, a conductive layer formed on the insulation layer, and a connection via conductor connecting the conductive layer and electrode.

Abstract: A serpentine delay line structure for reducing the common-mode noise is provided to a substrate having a layout layer, a first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer, and a grounding layer. The serpentine delay line structure includes a first serpentine delay line pair, a second serpentine delay line pair, a third serpentine delay line pair, a first transition serpentine delay line pair, and a second transition serpentine delay line pair. The first serpentine delay line pair and the second serpentine delay line pair on the layout layer are electrically connected to the first transition serpentine delay line pair on the first dielectric layer through corresponding vertical vias. The second serpentine delay line pair and the third serpentine delay line pair on the layout layer are electrically connected to the second transition serpentine delay line pair on the first dielectric layer through corresponding vertical vias.

Abstract: A blind-mate capacitive coupling interconnection between a main module enclosure one or more sub-module enclosures has coupling surfaces each with a ground portion and an aperture, an inner element provided in the aperture, spaced away from the ground portion. The coupling surfaces may be provided, for example, as traces on a printed circuit board. To accommodate a degree of mis-alignment, one of the inner elements may be provided larger than the other. Capacitive coupling between the coupling surfaces occurs when the coupling surfaces are mated together, retained in position, for example, by a mechanical fixture.

Abstract: A dual-frequency patch antenna includes a ground plane, an inside radiator, and an outside radiator. The inside radiator is configured as a region with a periphery, along which is a series of first protrusions separated by first grooves. The outside radiator is configured as a ring with an outer periphery and an inner periphery, along which is a series of second protrusions separated by second grooves. A set of conducting elements electrically connect the series of second protrusions with the ground plane. The inside radiator and the outside radiator can be fabricated on a dielectric substrate separated from the ground plane by a dielectric solid or air. The inside radiator and the outside radiator can be disposed on the same surface or on different surfaces of the dielectric substrate, with specific geometries of the first protrusions and first grooves relative to the second protrusions and second grooves.

Abstract: Embodiments of phase shifters (10) include electrical conductors (34) suspended within an electrically-conductive housing (28), and a shuttle (16) having an electrically-conductive plate (74) that provides a variable capacitance between a ground potential and the electrical conductor (34) when the shuttle (16) is moved between a first and second position. The plate (74) is electrically connected to a ground plane (27) of the phase shifter (10) by adjacent electrically-conductive portions (54, 55b, 53a) of the shuttle (16).

Abstract: The invention relates to a high-frequency transmission line including a central conductive strip (6) associated with at least one conductive shielding plane (4), wherein at least a portion of the space between the conductive plane and the conductive strip comprises a ferroelectric material (10).

Abstract: Analyzing a device under test (“DUT”) at higher frequencies. A phase shifter varies the phase of a standing wave on a transmission line coupled to the DUT. The standing wave magnitude is sampled at each of the phase shifts and one or more DUT characteristics are determined as a function of the sampled magnitudes and phase shifts. Further aspects include a related phase shifter comprising a waveguide having a plurality of sub-resonant slots formed therein and having active elements for loading the slots to control the phase shift applied to the signal.

Abstract: A selective frequency limiter having a magnetic material and a slow wave structure disposed to magnetically couple a magnetic field, produced by electromagnetic energy propagating through the slow wave structure, into the magnetic material.

Abstract: A method for generating a variable delay in an electromagnetic signal that crosses a main transmission line includes: coupling to the main transmission line a secondary transmission line terminated at both ends by respective variable-reactance circuit elements, wherein the main transmission line and the secondary transmission line are immersed in the same dielectric medium at a distance from each other; simultaneously varying a reactance value of the variable-reactance circuit elements; selecting the reactance value by varying physical and electrical parameters of the main transmission line and of the secondary transmission line, so as to obtain, on the main transmission line, an absorption peak at an absorption frequency higher than a predetermined working frequency of the main transmission line, and an adaptation peak at a frequency lower than the transmission frequency, the adaptation peak corresponding to the predetermined working frequency.

Abstract: A novel and useful fabricated variable transmission line that is tuned digitally is presented. Digital tuning of the variable transmission line enables the compensation of process variation in both the active and passive devices of the RF design. Along with several embodiments of the variable transmission line, the present invention also provides a method of compact modeling of the variable transmission line. The variable transmission line structure and compact modeling enables circuit level simulation using a parametric device that in one embodiment can be included as an integral part of a silicon foundry design kit.

Abstract: A tunable chirped delay line arrangement (0) configured to operatively propagate a signal and includes a at least one chirped delay line (1) arranged along a reference direction (z) on a dielectric layer (2) arranged on a ground plane (3). The chirped delay line (1) is configured with a smoothly varying width along the reference direction (z), and the arrangement (0) further comprising at least one electronically tunable impedance (5) interconnecting the at least one delay line (1) and the ground plane (3) at at least one location along the reference direction (z) such that the at least one delay line (1) is loaded by the tunable impedance (5).

Abstract: Multiple phase shifting elements which include electrically conductive, slidable tuning members may be placed on a single circuit board. The elements may be used to adjust the phase of signals propagating through a multi-element antenna array.

Abstract: A feeding system for providing a power using metal patterns having ‘U’ shape is disclosed. A phase shifter as the feeding system includes a first substrate, a first pattern as a conductor disposed on the first substrate, a second substrate separated from the first substrate and a second pattern as a conductor disposed on the second substrate. Here, the first pattern is overlapped with the second pattern, and electrical length of overlapped part of the patterns changes in case of changing phase of an RF signal outputted from the phase shifter.

Abstract: A multiple conductor radio-frequency transmission line including a plurality of conductive traces, an input port, and at least one output port is disclosed. The input port includes a radio-frequency signal input line which is generally aligned with and disposed in a partially or completely overlapping relationship with the plurality of conductive traces at the input port, with the radio-frequency signal input line being at least as wide as the plurality of conductive traces at the input port. The output port includes a radio-frequency signal output line which is generally aligned with and disposed in a partially or completely overlapping relationship with at least one of the plurality of conductive traces at the at least one output port, with the radio-frequency signal output line being at least as wide as the at least one of the plurality of conductive traces at the output port.

Abstract: A delay line structure includes a flat spiral delay line and two grounding guard traces. The flat spiral delay line is disposed in the layout layer in a manner of extending from an input end, bending clockwise inward until reaching a U-turn part, continuously extending and bending counterclockwise outward to an out put end so as to form two coupling areas, which are spiral and have an opening respectively. The two grounding guard traces are disposed in the layout layer in a manner of extending from the openings respectively toward the coupling areas, having an interval between the grounding guard traces and the flat spiral delay line, wherein the grounding guard traces close to the openings of the coupling areas are electrically connected to the grounding circuit through a via respectively.