CIRCUITS AND TECHNIQUES FOR A VIA-LESS BEAMFORMER

    公开(公告)号:US20180183146A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-06-28

    申请号:US15390764

    申请日:2016-12-27

    申请人: Raytheon Company

    IPC分类号: H01Q3/34 G01S13/02

    摘要: A via-less beamformer provided from a plurality of circuits elements having circuit layouts selected to mitigate unwanted reactive coupling there between. At least one of the plurality of circuit elements is provided having a circuit layout selected based upon reactive field theory. In one embodiment, a circuit layout may be selected by: determining which circuit features of the circuit elements produce reactive fields in response to a signal provided thereto, separating the total field into a modal set and determining the modal weighting coefficients based on geometrical and/or design features of the of the circuit elements. In one embodiment the via-less beamformer comprises one or more via-less combiner/divider circuits. In one embodiment the via-less beamformer comprises one or more branch hybrid coupler circuits. In one embodiment the via-less beamformer comprises one or more via-less combiner/divider circuits and one or more branch hybrid coupler circuits.