{"title":"A broadband sub-array of U-slotted patches for Ku-band active antenna system","authors":"W. Zhang, S. Jeon, S.P. Lee, N. Myung","doi":"10.1109/APS.1999.789383","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Satellite mobile communications is a key link in the chain of infrastructure of global communications. A ground mobile antenna with broad frequency band, transiently steerable sharp-beam, miniaturized and low profiled structure, is specifically required for various vehicle systems. As a elemental assemblage of the active array antenna system with spatial power combining, a broadband 4/spl times/2 sub-array is developed in advance by using broadband U-slotted microstrip patch radiators and broadband stripline feed network. The main performances of this sub-array are: 23.24% bandwidth for VSWR/spl les/2:1; the beamwidth is stable within the operating band (12.25-14.50 GHz) with (30-32)/spl deg/ in the E-plane and (15-14)/spl deg/ in the H-plane. The slightly higher side-lobe-level may be suppressed by the factor of the whole array; the cross-polar-level in the E-plane is very good, but deteriorated in the H-plane at the high end of the frequency band, which may be improved by replacing the feed type.","PeriodicalId":391546,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium. 1999 Digest. Held in conjunction with: USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting (Cat. No.99CH37010)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1999-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium. 1999 Digest. Held in conjunction with: USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting (Cat. No.99CH37010)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APS.1999.789383","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Satellite mobile communications is a key link in the chain of infrastructure of global communications. A ground mobile antenna with broad frequency band, transiently steerable sharp-beam, miniaturized and low profiled structure, is specifically required for various vehicle systems. As a elemental assemblage of the active array antenna system with spatial power combining, a broadband 4/spl times/2 sub-array is developed in advance by using broadband U-slotted microstrip patch radiators and broadband stripline feed network. The main performances of this sub-array are: 23.24% bandwidth for VSWR/spl les/2:1; the beamwidth is stable within the operating band (12.25-14.50 GHz) with (30-32)/spl deg/ in the E-plane and (15-14)/spl deg/ in the H-plane. The slightly higher side-lobe-level may be suppressed by the factor of the whole array; the cross-polar-level in the E-plane is very good, but deteriorated in the H-plane at the high end of the frequency band, which may be improved by replacing the feed type.