Potential technological breakthroughs for phased array antennas

Abstract

This reports on the analysis of technologies opening avenues for potential technological breakthroughs in phased array antennas. We report on recent results on the insertion of hardware technologies such as RF MEMS and RF Photonics, in the front-end of phased array antennas. Future prospects for the insertion of nanotechnologies are presented.

Parametric localisation in frequency diverse array

“…This small frequency shift results in a beam whose direction changes with time, and it is possible to ‘illuminate’ a particular range and angular location at some pre‐specified instant of time [5]. This is significantly different than the conventional phased array [7], where the beam pointing direction is independent of range and time. The FDA is also different from the coherent multiple‐input multiple‐output (MIMO) technique [8], which uses large frequency separations between different spatial channels.…”