• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.23-30
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• 2024

This paper dedcribes the design. verification, and analysis techniques for an advanced phased array antenna. When applying an active phased array antenna to an aircraft or missile, miniaturization of the array antenna and wide-angle beam steering characteristics can be unavoidable antenna design considerations. In particular, the active reflection coefficient characteristics when electronically steering a wide-angle beam is a design parameter that must be minimized in terms of system survival and system performance. As a radiator suitable for broadband characteristics and wide-angle beam steering, this paper designed an array structure using SFN and minimized the active reflection coefficient according to beam steering of up to 40° based on the spherical coordivate system angle. The bandwidth of the radiator was confirmed to be 3GHz based on active reflection in the Ka-band. In addition, the performance of the actually manufactured 8by8 array antenna wsa analyzed by measuring the single pattern of the radiator through a near-field test, mathematically synthesizing it, and predicting the Tx/TRx beam used in the seeker system.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.138-145
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• 2008

In this paper, the waveguide slot array antenna which is capable of wide beam steering and dual polarization is designed for an X band synthetic aperture radar. In order to improve the restriction of beam steering range and to remove the butterfly lobes, a typical waveguide slot array antenna has been modified. To implement dual polarization, rod excited waveguide slot elements and ridge waveguide slot elements are alternately arranged. Location of slots, inclination of rod and offset distance of slots are determined on using array characteristic and conductance constant with radiating power on slots. The designed antenna is manufactured and measured with Near-filed measurement method.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.321-321
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• 2005

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.52-59
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• 2007

A field mill capable of measuring the magnitude and polarity of electric fields at the ground level was studied to apply to a lightning warning system as a sensor. We designed and fabricated a planar-shutter type field mill with a rotating-vanes. A calibration of the field mill was performed in a vertically symmetrical arrangement which consists of two equal size parallel round plates to form a homogeneous electrical fields. The sensitivity of the field mill was adjusted at 0.5[V/kV/m], and this covers a ranges from 200[V/m] to 20[kV/m]. After the calibration experiment, the field mill was installed on the roof of a building to measure the changes of electric field intensity caused by thunderclouds. During the period from July 1. 2006 to July 15. 2006, the electric field intensity was recorded a ranges of $+2[kV/m]{\sim}-6[kV/m]$ depending on generation, extinction and movement of thunderclouds. From the actual test on the ground it is confirmed that the field mill has a good performance necessary for the measurement of DC electric fields.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.18 no.1 s.116
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• pp.7-14
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• 2007

In this paper, the scan characteristics of phased array antenna consisted of rectangular open-ended waveguide with a triangular grid are investigated. An infinite array structure is analyzed by numerically solving the integral equation for the electric field over the waveguide aperture using waveguide mode function and Floquet mode function. Next, SEP(Scan Element Pattern) and SI(Scan Impedance) characteristics are simulated by CST's MWS(Microwave Studio) and Ansoft's HFSS(High Frequency Structure Simulator) for the finite and infinite array structures. Also, validity of these approaches is verified by comparing the calculated and simulated results with the measured ones for an $8{\times}8$ subarray. Within 10.5 % fractional bandwidth in the X-band, the fabricated subarray showed the flat gain characteristic in the scan range of ${\pm}45^{\circ}C$ in the E-plane(azimuth) and ${\pm}20^{\circ}C$ in the H-plane(elevation), and also showed the return loss characteristic of less than -10 dB.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.29 no.12
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• pp.924-934
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• 2018

This paper describes the development and measurement results of C-band planar active phase array antenna for detecting and tracking radar(weapon-locating radar). The antenna is designed with 14 sub-arrays(12 main channels and 2 sidelobe blanking channels and approximately 3,000 elements of transmit-receive channel) to generate transmit and digital receive patterns. Using a near-field measurements facility, G/N, transmit patterns, and received patterns are measured. Receive patterns are implemented with digital beamforming by signal processing. The measurement results demonstrate that antenna design specifications were fulfilled.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.162-170
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• 2022

In this paper, the phased-array transceiver (TRX) channel amplitude and phase calibration method for a radar wind profiler (RWP) based on the 256 active phased array is discussed. Without the additional module, the TX and RX calibration paths were secured using couplers and switches in the TRX front ends and the TRX switching duplexers, and the amplitude and phase of the 256 TRX were calibrated using a gain and phase detector. The beam widths and side lobes of five beams (vertical, east, west, south, and north) of the calibrated 256 active phased array antenna were confirmed by a near-field which agreed well with the simulation results. The proposed calibration method can be easily applied to a system based on an active phased array operated in an outdoor environment.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.65-71
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• 2023

In this paper, the design, fabrication and verification steps of an electronically scanned array antenna(AESA) for a photonics-based Ku-band FMCW radar system is described. The presented system consists of a transmitter and a receiver respectively, which has a same antenna in the transceiver. The designed antenna has 2×8 array configuration and operates at Ku-band. The VSWR(Voltage Standing Wave Ratio) of each 16-radiators and the coupling power between radiators is measured. Also, in order to minimize the radar system damage because of handover power from the transmitter antenna to the receiver antenna when the transmitter works, the isolation between the transmitter antenna and the receiver antenna is optimized by test. As a result, beamwidth, side lobe level and beam steering characteristic are obtained by synthesizing each radiator pattern measurement data after each beam pattern of 16-radiators is measured in the near-field chamber.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.318-327
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• 2017

It is essential for the near-field receiving measurement to make beam pattern and check the performance of a active phased array antenna system. Also, we could obtain compensation value for mono-pulse function through the near-field receive test, however, if the radar has many frequency channel, the test would take long time and hard effort. So it is needed that frequency channels are selected for measurement and calculates the values for other frequency channels to improve efficiency in development and manufacture. In this case, the phase variations in sum and del channels would be checked. The phase measurement includes un-linear characteristic because of wrapping effect. Generally, radars have similar path length in sum and del channel, but if a radar has a electrical length gap between sum and del channel, errors could occur by phase's wrapping effect. In this paper, the interpolation method's error caused by electrical length gap is checked and the effective method for frequency channel selection to avoid wrapping effect is introduced.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2012.02a
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• pp.193-194
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• 2012

그래핀(graphene)은 탄소원자가 육각형 벌집 모양 배열의 격자구조를 가지는 원자 한층 두께의 이차원 물질이다. 그래핀은 전도띠(conduction band)와 가전자띠(valence band)가 한 점에서 만나고 에너지와 역격자의 k 벡터가 선형적으로 비례하는 에너지 구조를 가진다. 이로 인해 그래핀은 매우 빠른 전하 이동도를 가지며 원자 한 층의 두께임에도 불구하고 약 2.3%의 빛을 흡수할 수 있으며 자외선 영역부터 적외선 영역까지의 넓은 파장대의 빛을 흡수 할 수 있다. 이와 같은 그래핀의 우월한 성질을 이용하면 광 응답에 고속으로 반응하고 높은 주파수의 광통신에서도 작동 할 수 있는 그래핀 광소자를 제작할 수 있게 된다. 하지만 미래의 고속 그래핀 광소자를 실현하기에 앞서 그래핀의 광응답에 대한 정확한 이해가 필요하다. 그리하여 본 연구에서는 그래핀 광소자를 제작하고 광소자의 광응답 전기적 성질을 분석하여 그래핀의 광응답 특성을 얻어내고자 실험을 진행하였다. 그래핀을 채널 물질로 하고 소스, 드레인, 후면 게이트를 가지는 일반적인 그래핀 전계효과 트랜지스터(field-effect transistor)를 제작하고 채널에 빛을 비추고 비추지 않은 상태에서의 전기적 성질을 측정하고 그 때 얻어진 그래프의 광응답의 원인을 조사하였다. 이 때 얻어지는 $I_D-V_G$ 그래프가 광 조사 시 왼쪽으로 이동하게 되는데 이의 원인을 각 게이트 전압 구간별로 $I_D$-t 그래프를 획득하여 분석하였다. 또한 광원에 펄스를 인가하여 펄스 형태의 광원을 그래핀 전계효과 트랜지스터에 조사시키고 이에 따른 전기적 성질 변화를 관찰하였다 이 때 다양한 게이트 전압이 인가된 상태에서 레이저 펄스 광원에 의한 광전류를 검출하였으며 이를 분석하였다.