A low-cost electrically-switched focused beam charging system based on a reconfigurable phase-change cascaded feed network is introduced for wireless power transfer application. To realize the reconfigurable feed network, we theoretically decomposed the dynamic focusing phase distribution into two independent terms: a linear phase shift and a quadratic term. A focused aperture-coupled patch array antenna with static focused beam is fabricated to achieve the quadratic term. Different linear phase shifts are achieved by using designed electronic switching module to control the beam port status of Rotman lens, enabling to tilt the static focused beam in the desired direction. Based on full-wave simulation and near-field focusing measurement, we analyzed the dynamic focusing performance of generated focused beam with different beam ports excited at 5.758 GHz in detail. Besides, a LED lighting demo experiment for proposed system is carried out for visually displaying the generated dynamic focused beam. The simulation and experiment results indicate that the generated dynamic focused beam tilts as the excitation state of the beam port changes, and its focal spot can be also observed well on the focal plane. The architecture of proposed focused beam system eliminates the need for expensive phase shifters, resulting in a significant reduction in system costs.
本文介绍了一种基于可重构相变级联馈电网络的低成本电开关聚焦光束充电系统,用于无线功率传输应用。为实现可重构馈电网络,我们从理论上将动态聚焦相位分布分解为两个独立项:线性相移和二次项。为了实现二次项,我们制作了具有静态聚焦波束的聚焦孔径耦合贴片阵列天线。通过使用设计的电子开关模块来控制罗特曼透镜的波束端口状态,实现不同的线性相移,从而使静态聚焦波束向所需方向倾斜。基于全波仿真和近场聚焦测量,我们详细分析了在 5.758 GHz 频率下激发不同束口所产生的聚焦光束的动态聚焦性能。此外,为了直观地显示所产生的动态聚焦光束,我们还对所提出的系统进行了 LED 照明演示实验。模拟和实验结果表明,生成的动态聚焦光束会随着光束端口激励状态的变化而倾斜,其焦斑在焦平面上也能很好地观察到。拟议的聚焦光束系统结构无需使用昂贵的移相器,从而大大降低了系统成本。
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Radar networks offer the possibility to overcome the limitations of single sensors. However, without coherent signal processing, the full potential of radar networks cannot be exploited. Therefore, the synchronization of independent radar sensors is crucial in order to mitigate performance degradation due to frequency deviations of uncoupled reference oscillators. Systematically derived synchronization criteria for coupling-induced errors such as sampling frequency offset (SFO), carrier frequency offset (CFO) and symbol timing offset (STO) of uncoupled orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) radar sensors enable to determine hardware specifications, such as the required reference oscillator frequency stability. This aids in the design of digital radar networks and ensures error-free signal processing in advance. The concept of deriving said criteria is applicable to other modulation types used for digital radar sensors. Additionally, signal processing-based error estimation and correction methods are presented. By exploiting standard radar images, namely range profiles and range-Doppler images, the proposed methods estimate and correct any occurring SFO, CFO and STO. Furthermore, by applying the signal processing synchronization methods, they allow for a more lenient radar network design. Measurements using a 77 GHz digital radar demonstrator verify the derived criteria and error estimation and correction methods.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-13DOI: 10.1109/JMW.2024.3406919
TIM PFAHLER;ANDRE SCHEDER;ANNA BRIDIER;MATHIAS NAGEL;MARTIN VOSSIEK
This paper presents an ultra-broadband, low-loss, flexible liquid crystal polymer substrate-to-substrate interconnect with a bandwidth of more than 130 GHz. The transition discontinuity was minimized by maintaining both the reference impedance and the electromagnetic field conformity across the transition from alumina substrate to flip-chip foil. Therefore, more than 600 $mu$