Design and measured performance of an 8×8 dual polarised aperture-coupled microstrip patch phased array

Abstract

The paper presents an efficient and accurate design of phased arrays of aperture-cupled rnco strp patch elements under consideration of the mutual coupling and the finiteness of the array. The predicted performance of an 8x8 element and an 8x8 elemnent antenna array for radr applications in C-band are presented and compared with measuremnts.

Wideband high‐gain aperture coupled antenna for ku band phased‐array systems

“…through‐hole vias, which degrade polarization purity and increase inter‐element coupling. Techniques to obtain wide bandwidth and high gain with ACMSA have been discussed in [1–3]. Aperture size and shape, feed network structure, radiating element shape and size, choice of proper substrate material are among the design factors that impact the performance of ACMSA.…”