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2019 13th European Conference on antennas and propagation (EUCAP)
Ano (publicação definitiva)
2019
Língua
Inglês
País
Polónia
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Abstract/Resumo
A conformal cylindrical transmit-array (TA) for ultra-wide mechanical beam steering is presented. The curved design allows to overcome the effective aperture size reduction caused by the beam tilt - intrinsic to all types of planar arrays. This design must also deal with the aberrations caused by feed displacement relative to the TA focus. Instead of using the usual unifocal approach, the TA phase correction was designed to have two pseudo-foci. In this way, the intrinsic phase error caused by feed displacement can be smeared among all beams improving the overall scanning performance of the antenna. The TA is composed of a collection of curved 5-layer stacked patches designed for the Ka-band uplink (30 GHz). The aperture has 215x143 mm in plane dimensions. The presented solution provides a 28.9 dBi maximum gain and scanning range up to 80º within 3.9 dB scan loss, which far exceeds the scanning performance of conventional planar TA.
Agradecimentos/Acknowledgements
This work was supported in part by the European Space Agency under contract no. 4000109111/13/NL/AD and by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia under Projects PEstOE/EEI/LA/0008/2013 and UID/EEA/50008/2013.
Palavras-chave
Conformal antenna,Transmit-array,Beam steering,High gain,Ka-band satellite communications
Classificação Fields of Science and Technology
- Ciências Físicas - Ciências Naturais
Registos de financiamentos
Referência de financiamento | Entidade Financiadora |
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4000109111/13/NL/AD | European Space Agency |
UID/EEA/50008/2013 | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
PEstOE/EEI/LA/0008/2013 | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |