Paper Info
Title
A Compact Ku-Band Active Electronically Steerable Antenna with Low-Cost 3D T/R Module
Abstract
This paper presents a novel compact Ku-band active electronically steerable antenna array design with a low-cost and integrated T/R 3D module employed for airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems. The entire system adopts 3D multilayer technology with vertical interconnection to construct the hermetically packaging RF modules. By assembling different multifunctional modules into a whole multilayer board, the 3D T/R technique greatly improves the system integration and reduces implementation cost and size. Besides, a wideband circular polarized antenna array was designed in LTCC and connected to the proposed T/R modules to form a complete AESA. The whole proposed antenna system has been fabricated and experimentally investigated. Measurement results showed very good phased array performances in terms of gain, axial ratio, and radiating patterns. The low-cost, lightweight, and low-power features exhibited by the proposed design validate its applicability for weight and power constrained platforms with great electronic steering ability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1155/2019/5287679
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS & MOBILE COMPUTING
Field
DocType
Volume
Wideband,Ku band,Synthetic aperture radar,Computer science,Antenna array,Phased array,Electronic engineering,Interconnection,Axial ratio,Distributed computing,System integration
Journal
2019
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1530-8669
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zheng Xu1187.58
Chengxiang Hao200.34
Kuiwen Xu327.49
Shichang Chen492.75