The scanning performance of wide-angular scanning linear arrays is primarily degraded by the limited angular profile of the employed elements' patterns. This paper introduces an innovative strategy for compensating this degradation by using subarrays. Our design uses a uniform linear array with half-wavelength spaced elements, supplemented by subarrays that are symmetrically placed at its edges. The employed subarrays have controlled patterns, favoring some directions for effective scan-loss compensation (SLC) and suppressing other directions for lowering the sidelobes level (SLL). Two types of feeding configurations, making use of fixed power dividers in combination with 1-bit phase switch, are used for producing the desired patterns. The complete array design and physical validation, starting from the elements, continuing with the subarrays and ending with the system integration are also discussed in detail. The integration of the subarrays yields notable performance improvements at large scanning angles when compared with uniform linear arrays. The peak and first SLL of −14.1 dB, and the SLC of 2 dB are obtained when the array with CUP antennas as elements is scanned to the maximum scan angle direction.

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A novel approach is proposed for building a planar array derived from linear arrays using a toolbox of different types of subarrays located parallel and perpendicular to the linear array axes. The array design assumes constant element patterns and focuses on rectangular array applications with one dimensional, wide-angular beam scanning. Optimization criteria concern a trade-off between side lobe level performance, directive gain scan-loss, reducing the number of element controls and maximizing the use of phase-only elements for beam steering. All subarray configurations and functionalities, for improving the full array performance in sidelobe level and scan-loss compensation, are analyzed and validated in detail. The step-by-step integration of different subarrays starts from the center part of the array. This center part is a linear subarray along the major axis of the rectangular array with uniform maximum amplitude and spatially stretched. This subarray is combined with cross-line subarrays perpendicular to this center axis. At both edges of the center array, two in-line, uniform-amplitude and stretched subarrays are added and combined with cross-line subarrays. The amplitude distribution of the 3 in-line subarrays and the cross-line subarrays allows for lowering the sidelobe level in the plane of scanning. Finally, at both ends of the three in-line subarrays, subarrays with two and five elements are applied for reducing the scan-loss. By assuming cos(ϑ) element pattern results are given for a planar rectangular array with 41 elements length and 3 elements width. To lower cost and higher power efficiency, the array uses only 33 multi-bit phase shifters, 12 1-bit phase switches, and 4 attenuators for amplitude control. Optimized broadside and 60 • scanning patterns are compared and show improved performance in directive gain D = 24.4 dBi (broadside), D = 19.9 dBi (60 • ) and in SLL = −21.6 dB (broadside), SLL = −19.5 dB (60 • ).

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