Millimeter-wave diode-grid phase shifters

Millimeter-wave diode-grid phase shifters - Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on

Monolithic diode grids have been fabricated on 2 cm square gallium-arsenide wafers with 1600 Schottky-barrier varactor diodes. Shorted diodes are detected with a liquid-crystal technique, and the bad diodes are removed with an ultrasonic probe. A small-aperture reflectometer that uses wavefront division interference was developed to measure the reflection coefficient of the grids. A phase shift...

Microwave And Millimeter-Wave Ferrite Phase Shifters

Millimeter-Wave Diode-Grid Frequency Doubler

Abstruct-Monolithic diode grids have been fabricated on 2-cm square gallium-arsenide wafers in a proof-of-principle test of a quasi-optical varactor millimeter wave frequency multiplier array concept. An equivalent circuit model based on a transmission-line analysis of plane wave illumination was applied to predict the array performance. The doubler experiments were performed under far-field il...

Low-loss Millimeter-wave Phase Shifters Based on Mechanical Reconfiguration

We propose different concepts of mechanically reconfigurable true-time-delay phase shifters using micro-actuators at millimeter-waves (MMW). The mechanical reconfiguration allows to achieve phase shift reconfiguration with very low losses. One of the proposed concepts has been fully implemented and tested, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance in terms of phase-shift/loss ratio.

Rate Loss of Hybrid Beamforming with Imperfect Phase Shifters in Millimeter Wave Systems

In millimeter massive MIMO systems, hybrid beamforming algorithms with fewer RF chain are widely applied as they can save power and cut down on hardware costs. Hybrid beamforming can be divided into two stages: analog beamforming in the RF domain usually implemented with phase shifters and digital beamforming in the baseband domain. Phase shifters have rms phase error and rms gain error which a...