Active electronically scanned tiled array antenna

Lyon, R.W.; Kinghorn, A.M.; Morrison, Grant; Stonehouse, A.; Byrne, Gavin; Dugan, Mark

doi:10.1109/array.2013.6731819

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“…. , Q}, minimizing the EM metric using ( 17) and (18); and (ii ) the final CP optimization of the tiles excitations coefficients for the EM-OTM solution. More in detail, the OTM strategy presented in [20] exploits the efficient height-function (HF )-based coding [33,34] of the T domino tilings into words of L < (M × N ) integer values, w t = {w l,t ∈ [w l,1 ÷ w l,T ]; l = 1, .…”

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“…Indeed, besides the minimization of the number of TRM s, having simpler sub-arrays with similar shapes would facilitate the modular assembling of the radiating system as well as the implementation of few production lines, one for each type of elementary building block [17]. Moreover, the modularity is advantageous in phased array antenna manufacturing since it enables the implementation of light and low profile structures [17], an easy maintenance, and integrated cooling systems [18]. The constrained clustering is also referred to as array tiling [14], tiles (i.e., physically contiguous clusters of elements) with the same shape (i.e., single-shape tiling [16,[19][20][21][22][23][24][25]) or a limited number of shapes (i.e., multi-shape tiling [12-14, 26, 27]), being used to cover the whole antenna aperture without overlapping and any gaps or leaving the minimum one.…”

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Mask-Constrained Synthesis of Domino-Like Tiled Phased Arrays

Tosi¹,

Benoni²

2022

PIER B

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In this work, the mask-constrained synthesis of domino-tiled phased arrays is addressed. By exploiting tiling theorems and theory, optimal and sub-optimal methods for the synthesis of domino arrangements and the corresponding excitations that minimize the deviation of the radiation pattern from a user-defined power mask are presented. A set of numerical examples, carried out with full-wave simulators and concerned with different aperture sizes and various mask shapes, is reported to assess the effectiveness, limitations, and ranges of computationally-admissible applicability of the proposed methods.

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confidence: 99%

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Mask-Constrained Synthesis of Domino-Like Tiled Phased Arrays

Tosi¹,

Benoni²

2022

PIER B

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“…The feasibility of a similar approach for an X-Band airborne application was demonstrated in [8]. Here, the T/R Modules are housed in a bespoke ceramic hermetic LTCC Ball Grid Array (BGA) package and mounted on the rear of a multi-layer PCB.…”

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SMTR® module - Evolution towards airborne applications

Rieger

Schuh

Oppermann

2014

2014 International Radar Conference

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Modern active electronically steered antennas (AESA) operate in different platforms and systems. Inside AIRBUS Defence & Space, the focus on X-band antennas today is on airborne and fighter nose radars, in satellite based SAR antennas (synthetic aperture radar) for earth observation, and ground surveillance and security radars.Active airborne antennas are assembled with hundreds or even thousands of transmit/receive modules. This paper will describe the evolution of the so-called standardized module solution based on LTCC package technology with special regard to airborne applications and the correlated needs. This evolution especially contains significant optimization steps concerning area, weight and cost. By realization of an SMTR® Module suitable to a folded plank concept a significant reduction of installation depth could be achieved. As the module weight is dominated by its package, technology evaluation and implementation of advantageous concepts and materials was performed, here. Cost reduction is always a key focus of T/R module evolution as the modules still allocate a big part of antenna's production cost. Some steps have been realised here both on technology and component level.The next generation of AESA antennas will result in a combination of different operating modes within the same antenna front end, including radar, communication (data links), and jamming (electronic warfare, EW). This leads to enhanced demands especially towards the MMICs. The RF section of today's T/R modules for AESA applications is typically based on GaAs technology. During the last 10 years there was much progress in the development of disruptive semiconductor materials, especially GaN and SiGe BiCMOS, which have the potential to challenge or even replace the GaAs technology, here. This paper will describe and show this evolution through the last years and shall give an outlook towards future developments with regard to airborne applications.

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“…It is much thinner than the conventional array antennas, such as Vivaldi antenna [17] and monopole antenna. Based on the low-profile array antenna, the MPAR designer can achieve an advanced solution known as the tiled array antenna [18]. In such a solution, the MPAR has compact volume and light weight by using a layered architecture.…”

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Ultra-Wideband Planar Dipole Array Antenna for Multifunction Phased Array Radars

Li¹,

Zhou²,

Sun³

2020

PIER Letters

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In the study, an ultra-wideband array antenna for multifunction phased array radars (MPAR) is proposed. Due to the low-profile and ultra-wideband characteristics, the planar dipole elements are utilized to form an array antenna. Their performances are enhanced by using an optimized microstrip-sector feeding structure. The array antenna is a combination of subarrays, each of which corresponds to 4 × 4 transmit/receive channels. Four subarrays are fabricated in a standard printed circuit board (PCB) process to investigate the planar dipole array antenna theoretically and experimentally. Both simulated and measured results show that the proposed array antenna achieves 87.0% impedance bandwidth (VSWR < 2.0 in the normal direction) from 1.3 GHz to 3.3 GHz, according to the specific requirements of an MPAR project. The active VSWR is less than 2.0 and 3.0 while the scan angle is −30 • ∼ 30 • and −45 • ∼ 45 • , respectively. It means that this array antenna has wide-scan capability. In general, the balanced optimization between the electrical and mechanical performances makes the proposed array antenna attractive for MPARs and other compact systems.

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Active electronically scanned tiled array antenna

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Mask-Constrained Synthesis of Domino-Like Tiled Phased Arrays

Mask-Constrained Synthesis of Domino-Like Tiled Phased Arrays

SMTR® module - Evolution towards airborne applications

Ultra-Wideband Planar Dipole Array Antenna for Multifunction Phased Array Radars

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