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Design and Fabrication of X-band Wideband Array Antenna for SAR Applications  

Won Young-Jin (Satellite Electronics Department, Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
Lee Young-Ju (Mobile Communication Division, Samsung Electronics)
Kong Young-Kyun (Nex 1 Future)
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Abstract
Synthetic Aperture Radars(SAR) are used mainly for high-resolution imaging of the terrain. This paper describes the $16{\times}16$ array antenna designed for an X-band, automobile-based SAR(AutoSAR) system. This antenna has the structure of several layers such as radome, radiators, slots, feed network, and honeycomb cores. Each layer is adhesively bonded to meet different combination of structural and electrical design requirements. Using the Strip-Slot-Foam-Inverted-Patch(SSFIP) structure and honeycomb cores, a wide bandwidth and a structural hardness were achieved. Measurement results were compared with simulation results. It was observed that this antenna had a bandwidth of 1.7 GHz, side-lobe levels of less than -20 dB, half-power beamwidth of $5^{\circ}$ and $5^{\circ}$, and gains of 25.0 dBi. The observed results show that the designed array antenna will be applicable to the wideband SAR system.
Keywords
SAR; SSFIP; Aperture-Coupled; Back Radiation Reduction; Honeycomb;
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