EP0271505A1 - Power divider/combiner circuit. - Google Patents

Power divider/combiner circuit.

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EP0271505A1
EP0271505A1 EP87902973A EP87902973A EP0271505A1 EP 0271505 A1 EP0271505 A1 EP 0271505A1 EP 87902973 A EP87902973 A EP 87902973A EP 87902973 A EP87902973 A EP 87902973A EP 0271505 A1 EP0271505 A1 EP 0271505A1
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James M Schellenberg
Wing Yau
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01P—WAVEGUIDES; RESONATORS, LINES, OR OTHER DEVICES OF THE WAVEGUIDE TYPE
    • H01P5/00—Coupling devices of the waveguide type
    • H01P5/12—Coupling devices having more than two ports
    • H01P5/16—Conjugate devices, i.e. devices having at least one port decoupled from one other port
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    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01P—WAVEGUIDES; RESONATORS, LINES, OR OTHER DEVICES OF THE WAVEGUIDE TYPE
    • H01P5/00—Coupling devices of the waveguide type
    • H01P5/12—Coupling devices having more than two ports

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  • This invention relates to microwave and millimeter wave integrated circuits and more particularly to a planar power divider/combiner circuit which may be used to divide an RF signal into a plurality of signals or combine a plurality of RF signal sources into a single signal.
  • RF signal includes both microwave and millimeter wave signals.
  • Power divider circuits have been developed to divide RF signals into a number of signals to feed multi-element antennas.
  • power combiner circuits were developed to combine the output of a number of solid state amplifiers, chip transitors or oscillators.
  • Several different circuit geometries have evolved to accomplish this power dividing or combining such as: The circular-geometry Wilkinson power divider disclosed in G. J. Wilkinson, "An-N Way Hybrid Power Divider," IRE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Tech. , MTT-8 No.l, 116-19 (Jan 1960); the fork power divider disclosed in an article by A. Saleh entitled "Planar, Electrically Symetric N-Way Hybrid Power Dividers/Combiners," IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory
  • a power divider/combiner circuit comprises a flat tapered strip of electrically conductive material with a plurality of slots therein extending from the wide end of the tapered strip toward the narrow end of the strip such that the strip defines a plurality of fingers.
  • the narrow end of the tapered strip forms one port, either an input or an output port, and the respective tips of the fingers form a plurality of ports which can be either input ports or output ports.
  • Isolation resistors connect adjacent fingers at quarter wavelength distances along the fingers.
  • the tapered strip is mounted on a dielectric substrate.
  • An input signal from an RF signal source may be fed into the single port at the narrow end of the tapered strip.
  • the input signal will be divided into a plurality of RF signals of equi-amplitude and equal phase at the finger ports.
  • these signals will combine into a single RF signal at the single port at the narrow end of the tapered strip.
  • FIG. la is a top plan view of a power divider/ combiner circuit according to the principles of the present invention.
  • FIG. lb is a cross-sectional view taken along line lb-lb of FIG. la;
  • FIG. 2 is an enlarged perspective view partly broken away, illustrating a portion of a power divider/ combiner circuit according to another embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 3 is a top plan view illustrating still another embodiment of the invention using a pair of power divider/combiner circuits. It will be appreciated that FIGS. 1-3 are not drawn to scale.
  • a power divider/combiner circuit 10 may include a tapered strip of electrically conductive material 1 with a narrow end 2 and a wide end 3.
  • the tapered strip 1 is preferably made of a metal such as gold, but may be made of any other good electrically conductive material.
  • the strip may be about 2-3 skin depths thick for the lower frequency of the desired bandwidth of operation.
  • the tapered strip 1 provides a tapered transmission line in which the contour of the taper is selected to match the impedance at the narrow end 2 of the tapered strip to the impedance at the wide end 3 of the tapered strip over the desired bandwidth of operation.
  • the contour and lengths of the taper determine the maximum inband reflection coefficient and the lower cut off frequency, respectively. While many taper geometrices are available, such as an exponential taper or a hyperbolic taper, a Dolph- Tchebycheff taper has been found to afford optimum performance because it provides a minimum length for the transmission line for a specified maximum magnitude reflection coefficient in the passband.
  • the design equations for the Dolph-Tchebycheff taper may be found in an article authored by R. W. Klopfenstein entitled “A Transmission Line Taper of Improved Design," 44 Proc. IRE 31-35 (Jan. 1956), which is incorporated herein by reference.
  • the tapered strip 1 has a plurality of slots 4 therein extending from the wide end 3 of the strip toward the narrow end 2 of the strip which define a plurality of conductor fingers 5.
  • the narrow end 2 of the tapered strip 1 thus defines a single port 2 which can be either an input port or an output port depending on whether the circuit is used as a power divider or combiner, respectively.
  • the tips of the conductor fingers 5 at the wide end 2 of the strip 1 define N ports 6, where N is an integer greater than 1, which can be either output ports or input ports depending on whether the circuit is used as a power combiner or divider, respectively.
  • N is an integer greater than 1
  • 5 ports are shown FIGS la and lb, any number of ports are possible.
  • the slot width i.e. the spacing between the adjacent fingers 5, should be kept small to enhance coupling between adjacent fingers and thus ensure that the structure retains the characteristics of a DolphTchebycheff tapered transmission line.
  • a slot width of about 1.5 mil has been typically used.
  • the fingers 5 function as strip line conductors.
  • Isolation resistors 7 connect adjacent conductor fingers 5.
  • the resistors 7 absorb signals that are reflected back into the power divider/combiner circuit, the odd mode propagation.
  • These resistors may be chip resistors 7 disposed on top of the strip as illustrated in FIG. 1, or thick or thin film resistors 7* located between the fingers 5 in the slots 4 on the substrate 8, as illustrated in FIG. 2.
  • the number of isolation resistors 7 disposed along each pair of adjacent fingers 5 should preferably be one less than the total number of finger ports in the circuit to effectively absorb the propagation of odd modes.
  • la and lb where 5 ports are used there are 4 resistors along each pair of adjacent fingers.
  • additional or fewer resistors also may be employed. Several methods are available for determining the resistance value for the isolation resistors 7.
  • the tapered strip 1 may be adhesively mounted onto a dielectric substrate 8 which is generally a thin flat plate of dielectric material.
  • the substrate for example, may be made of sapphire, berryllium oxide, quartz, or alumina.
  • the adhesive material 9 may be chrome or ti-tungsten or any other good conductive adhesive material.
  • the dielectric substrate may be grounded at the bottom surface 11 of the substrate 8.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates a power divider/combiner circuit according to a further embodiment of the present invention.
  • the circuit of FIG. 3 includes an RF signal source 30 which may be an oscillator or amplifier, for example. The signal from the source 30 is fed into the single port 2a of a power divider/combiner circuit 31.
  • This single RF signal is divided into a plurality of RF signals at the finger ports 6a.
  • These signals are amplified by respective amplifiers 32, which may be hybrid amplifiers, pre-matched chips, microwave monolithic integrated circuit chips, transitor chips, for example, and fed into respective finger ports 6b of power divider/ combiner circuit 33 according to the invention which, in turn, combines these N amplified RF signals into a single RF signal at port 2b.
  • the resultant output signal is the summation of the various output signals from the amplifiers 32.

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Abstract

Circuit (10) lent diviseur/combinateur de puissance à larges bandes et à N voies permettant de diviser ou de combiner des signaux HF et comprenant une bande de largeur décroissante (1) en un matériau électriquement conducteur, possédant une pluralité de doigts conducteurs (5) qui définissent une pluralité d'orifices (6) sur l'extrémité large (3) de la bande, et possédant une extrémité étroite (2) définissant un orifice unique. La bande métallique de largeur décroissante est montée sur une plaque diélectrique (8) et des résistances d'isolation (7) relient des doigts adjacents. Un signal HF unique est injecté dans l'orifice unique pour être divisé en une pluralité de signaux d'amplitude égale et de phase égale. Réciproquement, plusieurs signaux HF peuvent être injectés dans les orifices à l'extrémité large pour être combinés en un signal unique.Circuit (10) slow broadband and N-channel power splitter / combiner for dividing or combining HF signals and comprising a decreasing width band (1) of an electrically conductive material, having a plurality of conductive fingers (5 ) which define a plurality of holes (6) on the wide end (3) of the strip, and having a narrow end (2) defining a single hole. The decreasing width metal strip is mounted on a dielectric plate (8) and insulation resistors (7) connect adjacent fingers. A single HF signal is injected into the single port to be divided into a plurality of signals of equal amplitude and equal phase. Conversely, several HF signals can be injected into the holes at the wide end to be combined into a single signal.

Description

POWER DIVIDER/COMBINER CIRCUIT
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to microwave and millimeter wave integrated circuits and more particularly to a planar power divider/combiner circuit which may be used to divide an RF signal into a plurality of signals or combine a plurality of RF signal sources into a single signal. As used throughout this specification and the claims, the term RF signal includes both microwave and millimeter wave signals.
2. Description of the Related Art Power divider circuits have been developed to divide RF signals into a number of signals to feed multi-element antennas. Conversely, power combiner circuits were developed to combine the output of a number of solid state amplifiers, chip transitors or oscillators. Several different circuit geometries have evolved to accomplish this power dividing or combining such as: The circular-geometry Wilkinson power divider disclosed in G. J. Wilkinson, "An-N Way Hybrid Power Divider," IRE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Tech. , MTT-8 No.l, 116-19 (Jan 1960); the fork power divider disclosed in an article by A. Saleh entitled "Planar, Electrically Symetric N-Way Hybrid Power Dividers/Combiners," IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory
Tech., MTT-28, No. 6, 555-63 (June 1980); and the radial power divider disclosed in an article authored by J. Schellenberg & M. Cohn, "A Wideband Radial Power Combiner for FET Amplifiers," 1978 IEEE ISSCC Digest 164- 165, 273 (February 1978). None of these power divider/ combiner circuits, however, can provide phase matching, ultra-wide bandwidth, impedance transforming, port to port isolation in a planar compact power dividing and combining circuit all at the same time.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, it is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a compact planar integrated circuit for both dividing and combining microwave and millimeter signals.
It is yet another object of the present invention to provide a power divider/combiner circuit that achieves greater than a 100% bandwidth. It is still a further object of the present invention to provide a power divider/combiner circuit which divides a single signal source into a plurality of equi-phase, equi-amplitude signals over a broad frequency range. It is still a further object of the present invention to provide a power divider/combiner circuit which provides phase matching at each port to ensure efficient power combining.
It is yet another object of the present invention to provide a power divider/combiner circuit that combines a plurality of RF signals sources efficiently into one
RF signal of magnitude equal to the sum of all the signal sources. It is still a further object of the present invention to provide a power divider/combiner circuit that provides good port-to-port isolation.
It is still a further object of the present invention to provide a power divider/combiner circuit that provides impedance transforming and power combining or dividing at the same time.
A power divider/combiner circuit according to the invention comprises a flat tapered strip of electrically conductive material with a plurality of slots therein extending from the wide end of the tapered strip toward the narrow end of the strip such that the strip defines a plurality of fingers. The narrow end of the tapered strip forms one port, either an input or an output port, and the respective tips of the fingers form a plurality of ports which can be either input ports or output ports. Isolation resistors connect adjacent fingers at quarter wavelength distances along the fingers. The tapered strip is mounted on a dielectric substrate.
An input signal from an RF signal source may be fed into the single port at the narrow end of the tapered strip. The input signal will be divided into a plurality of RF signals of equi-amplitude and equal phase at the finger ports. Conversely, when a plurality of RF input signals are fed into the finger ports, these signals will combine into a single RF signal at the single port at the narrow end of the tapered strip. Additional objects, advantages and characteristic features of the invention will become readily apparent from the following detailed description of a preferred embodiment of the invention when considered in con¬ junction with the accompanying drawings. . BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. la is a top plan view of a power divider/ combiner circuit according to the principles of the present invention;
FIG. lb is a cross-sectional view taken along line lb-lb of FIG. la; and
FIG. 2 is an enlarged perspective view partly broken away, illustrating a portion of a power divider/ combiner circuit according to another embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 3 is a top plan view illustrating still another embodiment of the invention using a pair of power divider/combiner circuits. It will be appreciated that FIGS. 1-3 are not drawn to scale.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Referring to FIGS, la and lb with greater particularly, a power divider/combiner circuit 10 according to the invention may include a tapered strip of electrically conductive material 1 with a narrow end 2 and a wide end 3. The tapered strip 1 is preferably made of a metal such as gold, but may be made of any other good electrically conductive material. The strip may be about 2-3 skin depths thick for the lower frequency of the desired bandwidth of operation. The tapered strip 1 provides a tapered transmission line in which the contour of the taper is selected to match the impedance at the narrow end 2 of the tapered strip to the impedance at the wide end 3 of the tapered strip over the desired bandwidth of operation. The contour and lengths of the taper determine the maximum inband reflection coefficient and the lower cut off frequency, respectively. While many taper geometrices are available, such as an exponential taper or a hyperbolic taper, a Dolph- Tchebycheff taper has been found to afford optimum performance because it provides a minimum length for the transmission line for a specified maximum magnitude reflection coefficient in the passband. The design equations for the Dolph-Tchebycheff taper may be found in an article authored by R. W. Klopfenstein entitled "A Transmission Line Taper of Improved Design," 44 Proc. IRE 31-35 (Jan. 1956), which is incorporated herein by reference.
The tapered strip 1 has a plurality of slots 4 therein extending from the wide end 3 of the strip toward the narrow end 2 of the strip which define a plurality of conductor fingers 5. The narrow end 2 of the tapered strip 1 thus defines a single port 2 which can be either an input port or an output port depending on whether the circuit is used as a power divider or combiner, respectively. The tips of the conductor fingers 5 at the wide end 2 of the strip 1 define N ports 6, where N is an integer greater than 1, which can be either output ports or input ports depending on whether the circuit is used as a power combiner or divider, respectively. Although 5 ports are shown FIGS la and lb, any number of ports are possible.
The slot width, i.e. the spacing between the adjacent fingers 5, should be kept small to enhance coupling between adjacent fingers and thus ensure that the structure retains the characteristics of a DolphTchebycheff tapered transmission line. A slot width of about 1.5 mil has been typically used. The fingers 5 function as strip line conductors.
Several methods are available for determining the appropriate widths (even mode impedance) and gap spacings for strip line conductors, such as disclosed in J. I. Smith, "The Even and Odd Mode Capacitance
Parameters for Coupled Lines in Suspended Substrate," IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech., Vol. MTT-19, pp. 424-31 (May 1971) or T. Itoh & A. S. Herbert, "A Generalized Spectrum Domain Analysis for Coupled Suspended Microstriplines with Tuning Septums," IEEE
Trans Microwave Theory Tech. Vol. MTT-26, pp. 820-27, (Oct. 1978), which are incorporated herein by reference.
The methods described in the aforementioned publications are designed to determine widths and gap spacing for strip conductors of uniform width. Since the conductor strip fingers 5 of the present invention are tapered, the equations•for determining the widths of uniform width strip' line conductors disclosed in these publications should be reiteratively applied to determine the width of each finger strip at a sufficient number of points along the strip to define the appropriate taper.
Isolation resistors 7 connect adjacent conductor fingers 5. The resistors 7 absorb signals that are reflected back into the power divider/combiner circuit, the odd mode propagation. These resistors may be chip resistors 7 disposed on top of the strip as illustrated in FIG. 1, or thick or thin film resistors 7* located between the fingers 5 in the slots 4 on the substrate 8, as illustrated in FIG. 2. The number of isolation resistors 7 disposed along each pair of adjacent fingers 5 should preferably be one less than the total number of finger ports in the circuit to effectively absorb the propagation of odd modes. Thus in the exemplary embodiment shown in FIGS, la and lb, where 5 ports are used there are 4 resistors along each pair of adjacent fingers. However, additional or fewer resistors also may be employed. Several methods are available for determining the resistance value for the isolation resistors 7.
First the "variational method" or the "spectral domain method" disclosed in the Smith or Itoh & Herbert articles referred to above accurately provide the odd mode impedance needed to calculate the resistance of the isolation resistors 7. Then resistance values can be determined using the method disclosed in N. Nagai,
E. Matkawa, and K. Ono-, "New N-Way Hybrid Power Dividers,"
IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech., Vol. MTT-25, No.
12, pp. 1008-1012 (Dec. 1977), which is incorporated herein by reference.
The tapered strip 1 may be adhesively mounted onto a dielectric substrate 8 which is generally a thin flat plate of dielectric material. The substrate for example, may be made of sapphire, berryllium oxide, quartz, or alumina. The adhesive material 9 may be chrome or ti-tungsten or any other good conductive adhesive material. In operation, the dielectric substrate may be grounded at the bottom surface 11 of the substrate 8. FIG. 3 illustrates a power divider/combiner circuit according to a further embodiment of the present invention. The circuit of FIG. 3 includes an RF signal source 30 which may be an oscillator or amplifier, for example. The signal from the source 30 is fed into the single port 2a of a power divider/combiner circuit 31. This single RF signal is divided into a plurality of RF signals at the finger ports 6a. These signals are amplified by respective amplifiers 32, which may be hybrid amplifiers, pre-matched chips, microwave monolithic integrated circuit chips, transitor chips, for example, and fed into respective finger ports 6b of power divider/ combiner circuit 33 according to the invention which, in turn, combines these N amplified RF signals into a single RF signal at port 2b. The resultant output signal is the summation of the various output signals from the amplifiers 32.
It should be understood that although the invention has been shown and described for one particular embodiment, nevertheless various charges and modifications obvious to a person skilled in the art to while the invention pertains are deemed to live within the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.

Claims

CLAIMSWhat is Claimed is;
1. A power divider/combiner circuit, which comprises: a dielectric substrate; a tapered strip of electrically conductive material mounted on said substrate, said strip having a wide end, a narrow end, and a plurality of slots therein defining a plurality of fingers; and resistive means electrically connecting adjacent ones of said fingers.
2. A power divider/combiner circuit as defined in Claim 1 further comprising means for applying an input signal to the narrow end of said tapered strip.
3. A power divider/combiner circuit as defined in Claim 1 further comprising means for applying a plurality of input signals to said fingers at said wide end of said tapered strip.
4. A power divider/combiner circuit as defined in Claim 1 wherein said resistive means comprises a plurality of resistors electrically connecting adjacent ones of said fingers at quarter wavelength distances along the fingers for signals selectively applied to either said narrow end, or the ends of respective fingers at said wide end.
5. A power divider/combiner as defined in Claim 4 wherein said resistors are chip resistors disposed on top of said strip overlapping adjacent portions of adjacent ones of said fingers.
6. A power divider/combiner as defined in Claim 4 wherein said resistors are thick film resistors which are located on said substrate between adjacent ones of said fingers in said slots and which are making electrical contact to adjacent portions of adjacent ones of said fingers.
7. A power divider/combiner as defined in Claim 4 wherein said resistors are thin film resistors which are located on said substrate between adjacent ones of said fingers in said slots and which are making electrical contact to adjacent portions of adjacent ones of said fingers.
8. A power divider/combiner as defined in Claim 1 wherein said dielectric substrate is of a material selected from the group consisting of sapphire, berryllium oxide, quartz and alumina.
9. A power divider/combiner circuit as defined in Claim 1 wherein said tapered strip of metal is about three skin depths thick for the lower frequency of the desired band of operation.
10. A power divider/combiner circuit as defined in Claim 1 wherein the spacings between adjacent ones of said fingers are about 1.5 mils.
11. A power divider circuit for dividing millimeter wave or microwave signals, which comprises: a dielectric substrate; a tapered strip of electrically conductive material mounted on said substrate, said strip having a wide end, a narrow end, and a plurality of slots therein extending along the length of said tapered strip from the wide end to the narrow end defining a plurality of fingers; resistive means electrically connecting adjacent ones of said fingers; means for applying a signal to the narrow end of said tapered strip.
12. A power combiner circuit for combining millimeter wave or microwave signals, which comprises; a dielectric substrate; a tapered strip of electrically conductive material mounted on said substrate, said strip having a wide end, a narrow end, and a plurality of slots therein extending along the length of said tapered strip from the wide end to the narrow end defining a plurality of fingers; resistive means electrically connecting adjacent ones of said fingers; and means for applying a plurality of signals into said fingers at the wide end of said tapered strip.
13. A power divider/combiner circuit which comprises: a first dielectric substrate; a first tapered strip of electrically conductive material mounted on said substrate, said strip having a wide end, a narrow end, and a plurality of slots therein extending along the length of said tapered strip from the wide end to the narrow end defining a plurality of first fingers; first resistive means electrically connecting adjacent ones of said first fingers; means for applying a first signal to the narrow end of said first tapered strip; a second dielectric substrate; a second tapered strip of electrically conductive material mounted on said second substrate, said second strip having a wide end, a narrow end, and a plurality of slots therein extending along the length of said second tapered strip from the wide end to the narrow end defining a plurality of second fingers; second resistive means electrically connecting adjacent ones of said second fingers; signal translating means electrically connected between respective corresponding pairs of said first and second fingers.
14. A power divider/combiner circuit as. defined in Claim 13 wherein said translating means comprises a plurality of amplifiers.
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