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Design and Experiment of Ku_band Linear Active Phased Array Antenna System  

Ryu Sung-Wook (Antenna Technology Research Team, Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute)
Eom Soon-Young (Antenna Technology Research Team, Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute)
Yun Jae-Hoon (Antenna Technology Research Team, Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute)
Jeon Soon-Ick (Antenna Technology Research Team, Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute)
Kim Nam (School of Electrical & Computer Eng., Chungbuk National University)
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Abstract
In this paper, the linear active phased array antenna system operated in Ku DBS band was designed and experimented. The antenna system was composed of sixteen radiating active channels and Wilkinson power combiners with 16-channel inputs, a stabilizing DC bias and phase control board. Electrical beams of the antenna system can be formed by controling the phase-states of 3-bit digital phase shifter inside each active channel by virtue of the phase control board. The amplitude and phase deviations measured between active channels were less than ${\pm}0.8dB$ and ${\pm}15^{\circ}$, respectively, and the noise figure of each active channel was measured less than 1.2 dB in the operating band. The measured performances of the overall antenna system showed the antenna gain of more than 23.07 dBi and the sidelobe level of less than -11.17 dBc, and the bore-sight cross-polarization level of less than -12.75 dBc in the operating band. Also, by phase-controlling active channels, the beam scan patterns at $10^{\circ},\;20^{\circ},\;30^{\circ}$ were measured, and the losses caused by the corresponding beam scanning were 1.1 dB, 2.5 dB and 3.6 dB from the measurements, respectively.
Keywords
Antenna; Active Phased Array Antenna;
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