一种应用于5G毫米波通信的双极化有源相控阵模组

针对5G毫米波通信,研制了一种双极化有源相控阵天线模组。厚度为2 mm的多层PCB正面印制阵列天线,在其背面集成多通道波束成形芯片,通过中间层实现天线与芯片的互连以及供电、控制等。测试结果表明,研制的板状4×4双极化相控阵模组在E面和H面均实现了不小于±40度的波束扫描范围（不大于3 dB的电平下降）和低于-18 dB的归一化交叉极化电平,在24～27.5 GHz的频率范围内实现了V极化和H极化分别为42.6～45.7 dBm和43.5～46.1 dBm的等效全向辐射功率（EIRP）。     

基于拓扑绝缘体异质结的宽带太赫兹探测器

二维材料中的新量子态对凝聚态物理和现代光电器件的发展具有重要意义。然而具有宽带、室温和快速响应能力的太赫兹光电探测技术,由于缺乏暗电流和光吸收之间的最佳平衡,仍然面临着巨大的挑战。在这项研究中,作者合成了新型拓扑绝缘体材料GeBi₄Te₇,并搭建了其与Bi₂Te₃的范德华异质结,以实现高灵敏度的太赫兹光电探测器。在平面金属-材料-金属结构中实现了在室温下将低光子能量太赫兹波段直接转化为光电流。结果表明,基于Bi₂Te₃-GeBi₄Te₇的太赫兹光电探测器能够实现0.02～0.54 THz的宽谱探测,且具有很高的光响应率(在0.112、0.27、0.5 THz下分别为592 V·W^-1、203 V·W^-1、40 V·W^-1),响应时间小于6μs。值得注意的是,它被用于高频太赫兹的成像应用演示。这些结果为Bi₂Te₃     

一种基于介质加载的地球覆盖波束天线设计

地球覆盖波束天线为低轨卫星与地面终端之间的数据传输建立了通道,文中研究了一种新型的介质 加载地球覆盖波束天线。基于介质加载的方法,文中提出了一种圆极化地球覆盖波束天线设计,该天线由馈电网 络、馈源和介质三部分组成,介质包括底部圆柱部分和顶部半球部分,馈源集成于介质内部。设计的地球覆盖波束 天线工作在C 波段,轴向0°~64°范围内增益在0 dBic 以上,40°方向增益为5. 2 dBic。天线尺寸紧凑,辐射波束具有 较好的空间截止特性,可满足立方星应用。     

低耗低剖面单层波导阵列天线研究

新型单层波导阵列天线具有低耗、低剖面、结构紧凑、实用性强等诸多优点, 在毫米波甚至太赫兹无线通信领域具有巨大应用潜力, 是当前的研究热点。 文章首先介绍了用于构建波导阵列天线的几类波导馈电网络的特点, 指出E 面波导馈电网络在毫米波应用领域的优势,接着针对E 面波导在单层并馈波导阵列天线和Butler矩阵多波束阵列天线方面的研究展开叙述,最后给出了可应用在单层波导阵列天线中的开口波导辐射单元在实现多频和圆极化等不同功能上的最新研究进展。 文章对于低耗低剖面单层波导阵列天线的发展及其应用具有参考价值。     

差分无源器件的设计

在现代无线通信系统中,差分电路相比单端电路而言具有更强的抗干扰能力,因此受到了国内外学者的广泛关注。文章介绍了混合模散射参数、差分器件设计中常用的微带线和缝隙线及两种传输线之间的相互转化,并介绍了基于微带线和缝隙线转换结构的两种全差分带通滤波器。两种滤波器分别实现了多频段和宽带的差模传输特性以及宽带的共模抑制特性。文章还给出了差分耦合器、差分功分器和差分天线等差分器件的设计。仿真与实测结果吻合较好,验证了设计方法的正确性。     

一种变压器巴伦馈电的超短波紧耦合阵列天线

紧耦合阵列天线(Tightly Coupled Array, TCA)具有超宽带、低剖面、宽角扫描等特点,近年来受到国内外学者的广泛关注。然而,在甚高频(VHF)、特高频(UHF)频段TCA 由于馈电网络设计困难等原因现有的研究报道很少。为了填补这一空白,本文设计并测试了一款变压器巴伦馈电的TCA,利用变压器巴伦解决了单元平衡馈电困难问题,同时采用短路枝节抑制E面共模谐振,采用频率选择表面(FSS)匹配层改善宽角扫描阻抗匹配。实测结果表明,该天线在110~520 MHz 频带内、±40°扫描角范围内电压驻波比<2.5,和仿真结果吻合。     

面向方向图保形的共口径基站天线去耦技术

为了节省基站天线所占空间资源,降低其运营成本,现代移动通信需要将多个天线阵列紧密地排列在一起,构成多频共口径基站天线。多天线的紧密排列势必造成天线间强烈的耦合,不仅使得天线阻抗失配、隔离度变差,同时也造成辐射方向图的严重变形。因此,近年来多频共口径基站天线的去耦成为工业界和学术界研究的热点,早期的去耦技术主要是面向改善天线的阻抗匹配和隔离度,而对面向方向图保形的去耦技术研究相对较少。文章在简要介绍面向方向图保形的基站天线去耦技术的研究现状的基础上,重点阐述了褚庆昕教授天线射频团队基于感应电流抵消、耦合场抵消和辐射阻断等原理,提出的几种新型的去耦技术。这些技术不仅可以有效地改善基站天线的阻抗匹配和隔离,更重要的是很好地实现了天线方向图保形。仿真和测试结果验证了原理的正确性和设计的可行性。一些技术已被用于5G基站天线产品。     

Design of compact two-port dual-band dual-polarized MIMO antenna for CBRS and WLAN sub-6-GHz applications

This communication presents a compact field de-correlation lines integrated dual band with dual-polarized (LP & CP) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna for the fifth generation (5G) sub-6-GHz wireless communication systems. Dual working bandwidths, smaller interelement gaps, and superior isolation within the MIMO components are the distinguishing characteristics that give the proposed MIMO system an aspect of novelty. The modeled MIMO antenna has compact configurations of 20 × 21 × 0.8 mm³. The unit cell consists of a microstrip feed line with optimized rectangular slots branches etched from the radiated patch. The MIMO module is generated by the antiparallel replication of a single unit cell. To enhance the isolation, two rectangular slots are incorporated on the patch between the unit elements, which act as field de-correlation lines. The MIMO identity is supported by diversity performance calculations in terms of ECC, DG, and TARC. Simulated and measured counterparts are found in the agreement.     

Ultra-Wideband Electrostrictive Mechanical Antenna

Mechanical antennas based on piezoelectric materials can effectively reduce the size of long wave antennas down to 1/1000 of the wavelength (from km scale to mm level). However, the narrow bandwidth and weak field intensity seriously restrict its practical applications in transmission distance and channel capacity. Here, a mechanical antenna-based electrostrictive effect of relaxor ferroelectric ceramic (PMN-PT) is proposed to improve radiation capacity and achieve ultra-wideband characteristics (10 kHz–1 MHz). Due to the ultra-high dielectric constant at working temperature and the relationship between the strain and applied field intensity, the proposed antenna gets rid of the dependence on the poled materials and exhibits excellent communication properties beyond traditional mechanical antennas, which are experimentally demonstrated by a practical wireless communication system. Only using a single proposed mechanical antenna with 8 mm diameter and 3 mm thickness, the effective communication with a transmission distance of 200 m can be realized. This design offers a promising way of constructing mechanical antennas for long-wave communication.     

Circularly polarized patch antenna with simultaneously wide frequency tuning range and high gain performance

A tunable circularly polarized square patch antenna with parasitic elements is designed for a wide frequency tuning range and high gain characteristics. The proposed antenna is constructed by one main patch and four semi-elliptic parasitic units. By loading four varactor diodes and adjusting their capacitance values, the tunable feature is performed to reallocate the corresponding working frequency. Moreover, the diagonal corners of the antenna are cut and loaded with varactor diodes, which provide the appropriate perturbation between the two orthogonality modes of the antenna, so as to ensure the circular polarization characteristic in the entire operating tuning band. The experimental results demonstrate that the reflection coefficient and axial ratio are less than −13 dB and 3 dB, respectively. The proposed antenna features a relatively wide continuously tuning range of 24% within 1.9-2.3 GHz and a stable gain of over 7 dBi with a radiation efficiency of above 85%.