As is known in the art, a phased array antenna includes a plurality of active circuits spaced apart from each other by known distances. Each of the active circuits is coupled through a plurality of phase shifter circuits, amplifier circuits and/or other circuits to either or both of a transmitter and receiver. In some cases, the phase shifter, amplifier circuits and other circuits (e.g., mixer circuits) are provided in a so-called transmit/receive (T/R) module and are considered to be part of the transmitter and/or receiver.
The phase shifters, amplifier and other circuits (e.g., T/R modules) often require an external power supply (e.g., a DC power supply) to operate correctly. Thus, the circuits are referred to as “active circuits” or “active components.” Accordingly, phased array antennas which include active circuits are often referred to as “active phased arrays.” An active phased array radar is also known as an active electronically scanned array (AESA).
Active circuits dissipate power in the form of heat. High amounts of heat can cause active circuits to be inoperable. Thus, active phased arrays should be cooled. In one example heat-sink(s) are attached to each active circuit to dissipate the heat.
In one aspect, an active electronically scanned array (AESA) tile includes a radiator structure and oxide-bonded semiconductor wafers attached to the radiator structure and comprising a radio frequency (RF) manifold and a beam former. An RF signal path through the oxide-bonded wafers comprises a first portion that propagates toward the beam former and a second portion that propagates parallel to the beam former.
The aspect above may have one or more of the following features. The RF signal path through the oxide-bonded wafers may include a third portion that propagates away from the beam former. The RF signal path further may include a third path that extends into the beam former and out of the beam former. The oxide-bonded wafers may be fused silica. The oxide-bonded wafers may include metal posts wherein a metal post from one wafer may be connected to a metal post of another wafer. The beam former may include at least one of a phase shifter, an amplifier or an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The beam former may be fabricated on silicon germanium (SiGe) wafer. The radiator structure may provide radiation shielding for the beam former. The RF manifold may propagate RF signals and not propagate any DC signals. The beam former may include a redistribution layer to allow for surface mounting to a printed circuit board. Power, signal and RF may be routed from the PWB through the beam former by a wafer via. The oxide-bonded semiconductor wafers may be made of high resistivity silicon. The RF signal may be routed using at least one of a stripline, a coplanar waveguide (CPW), a buried microstrip and a coaxial RF structure. The tile may include time delay structures and filtering structures. Active element spacing fits within Lambda/2 to enable wide scan to 60 degrees. The number of active elements between sixteen to sixty-four active elements. The tiles are scalable to an N×N array of active elements where N>1.
Described herein is a millimeter-wave radio frequency (RF) tile used as an active electronically scanned array (AESA) and scalable to form larger N×N AESA, for example. The tile, as described herein, incorporates a low loss glass RF manifold that is wafer level bonded directly to the beamforming circuit and a radiation shielding radiator.
As is understood in the art, higher frequencies require tighter lattice spacing between the active elements, which leaves less room for the active circuitry. This becomes even tighter when lambda/2 (half wavelength at transmitted frequency) spacing is required for a wide scan angle. The tile structures described herein enable signals to traverse a Z-axis using vias, for example, thereby allowing for higher frequencies such as Ka band and above to be achieved. One or more tiles may be mounted to a printed circuit board, which enables scalability. For example, the tile provides high density RF packaging and interconnects. In one example, the tile includes an RF-only manifold in a low-loss fused silica. In one example, the tile provides beam former functionality in silicon germanium (SiGe) and the SiGe beam former may be placed in close proximity to a coolant to provide thermal management. In one example, an RF radiator may also provide shielding of the SiGe beam former, for example, from radiation effects. In other examples, the beam former may be fabricated in other semiconductors such as high resistivity silicon, silicon carbide, gallium arsenide and so forth. In other examples, other functionality may be included in the RF manifold layer such as filtering and time delay. In one example, time delay functionality includes routing longer trace lengths to delay a signal. These other functions may be added into additional wafers incorporated in the stack.
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In other applications, one or more AESA 100 may be used on the side of naval vessels, on ground structures, ground vessels, air vessels, space vessels and so forth. In one particular example, AESA 100 may be placed on a stellar or planetary probe. As will be shown herein, an AESA 100 is a “building block” for forming an AESA system that is modular and scalar. In one particular example, the AESA 100 is a millimeter-wave AESA.
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An RF manifold 320 is disposed within the wafers 304a-304d. In one particular example, the RF manifold is in the middle of the wafers 304a-304d as depicted in
In one example, the wafers 304a-304d are fused silica wafers. In one particular example, each silica wafer is 100 microns thick. In one particular example, the fused silica is a low loss fused silica, where k=3.82 and the loss tangent is equal to 0.0007 at 60 GHz. In one example, the wafers 304a-304d may be low loss, high resistivity silicon. In further examples, wafers 304a-304d may be more or less than four wafers.
Vias are used to provide an electrical path through the tile 200. For example, the wafer 304a includes vias (e.g., a via 308a and a via 308b), the wafer 304b includes vias (e.g., a via 308c and a via 308d), the wafer 304c includes vias (e.g., a via 308e, a via 308f, a via 308g, a via 308h, and a via 308i) and the wafer 304d includes vias (e.g., a via 308j, a via 308k, a via 308l, a via 308m, and a via 308n).
Vias may be connected to metal traces which are connected to metal posts. For example, the wafer 304a includes a metal post 313 and a metal trace 314. As further described in
The oxide-bonded wafers 304a-304d include metallization layers used for electrical interconnections. In one example, metal layer 310a provides an interconnect between via 308j and via 308k. In another example, the oxide 306h includes metal layer interconnect 310b providing an electrical connection between the via 308f, the via 308g and the via 308h. In a further example, the oxide 306h includes an interconnect 310c providing an electrical connection between the via 308m and the via 308n. The via 308 connects the metal on both sides of a wafer 304 and the interconnect between metal pads on the wafer are made during oxide bonding with the metal post shown in metal post 313.
The beam former 312 includes at least one control application-specific integrated circuit ASIC (e.g., an ASIC 340), amplifiers (e.g., an amplifier 344a and an amplifier 344b) and phase shifters (e.g., a phase shifter 346a and a phase shifter 346b). In one example, the beam former 312 is fabricated on a silicon germanium (SiGe) wafer. In other examples, the beam former 312 provides RF attenuation and RF switches.
The beam former 312 also includes backside redistribution layers (RDL) (e.g., RDLs 348a) which includes interconnect pads, 348b to enable attachment to the PCB 206 using standard surface mount technology. The beam former 312 is attached to the PCB 206 by solder bumps (e.g., solder bumps 350a-350e). In one example, the solder bump 350a carries control signals, the solder bumps 350b, 350d are attached to ground, the solder bump 350c carries RF signals and the solder bump 350e carries power.
The radiator/shielding structure 324 is bonded to the wafers by a metal interconnect. In one example, the interconnect may be a solder bumps. In another example, it could be an indium bump. For example, the radiator/shielding structure 324 is bonded to the vias 308a of the wafer 304a by a solder bumps 380a and the radiator/shielding structure 324 is bonded to the vias 308b of the wafer 304a by a solder bumps 380a. In one example, the radiator/shielding structure 324 is designed to propagate an RF signal through the radiator and provide a radiation shield for the beam former 312. In one example, the radiator is made of a metal with low coefficient of expansion like invar to lessen the stress of connection to the wafer stack and thick enough to provide the correct amount of radiation shielding.
In one particular example, an RF signal path 370 starts at the radiator/shielding structure 324 and continues through connection 380b, the via 308b of the wafer 304a, through the via 308d of the wafer 304b, through the via 308i of the wafer 304c and through the via 308n of the wafer 304d. The RF signal path 370 continues in the beam former 312 by going through the amp 344b and the phase shifter 346. The RF signal path 370 continues back away from the beam former 312 and into the wafers 304c, 304d by going through the via 308m of the wafer 304d, through the via 308h of the wafer 304c. The RF signal path 370 continues through the interconnect 310b through the via 308g of the wafer 304c, through the via 308i of the wafer 304d. The RF signal path 370 propagates back into the beam former 312 and through the via 304c to the PCB 206 through bump 350c.
The RF signal path 370 moves in at least two axes within the wafers. For example, the RF signal path 370 moves along two axes (e.g., it moves along the X-axis and the Z-axis (i.e., in an X-Z plane)). In other examples, the RF signal path 370 may also move in the Y-axis (not shown in
Posts may be connected by a metal trace layer (e.g., post 412c is connected to a post 412d by a metal trace layer 414). The metal trace layer may be connected to vias (e.g., the metal trace layer 414 is connected to the via 408). In one example, the via 408 may be about 25 microns in diameter. In one example, the via 408 may be a copper via.
The processes described herein are not limited to the specific embodiments described. Elements of different embodiments described herein may be combined to form other embodiments not specifically set forth above. Other embodiments not specifically described herein are also within the scope of the following claims.
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