A Simple Synthesis of a High Gain Planar Array Antenna for Volume Scanning Radars

This paper describes a simple method of designing a rectangular planar array antenna with a flat top characteristic within the given 0o ?? ? ? max region in the 90? = o principal plane to be used in the volume scanning radars. In the method, the main beam of each ingredient linear array antenna is c...

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Published in:Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society journal 2012-03, Vol.27 (3), p.271
Main Authors: Tokan, F, Gunes, F, Turetken, B, Surmeli, K
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Amplitudes
Antenna arrays
Antennas
Chebyshev approximation
Computer simulation
Dipoles
Excitation
Far fields
Genetic algorithms
High gain
Linear arrays
Phasors
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Summary:This paper describes a simple method of designing a rectangular planar array antenna with a flat top characteristic within the given 0o ?? ? ? max region in the 90? = o principal plane to be used in the volume scanning radars. In the method, the main beam of each ingredient linear array antenna is collimated to a predetermined direction with a permissible beamwidth within the total coverage region so that the superposition of the far field ingredient phasors can result in the required overall pattern with the flat top characteristic in the region of max 0o ?? ? ? the principle plane. The main beamwidth requirements of the sub-arrays are met by the excitation amplitudes determined by Dolph-Chebyshev analytical method. Furthermore, the overall main beam characteristic is improved by optimizing the excitation amplitudes using the genetic algorithm. The far field patterns resulted from the half-wave dipole and patch arrays are verified by using the full-wave simulation software, computer simulation technology (CST).
ISSN:1054-4887
1943-5711