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Calculation of Radiation Patterns of Planar Array Antennas of Rectangular Waveguides Loaded by Dielectric Plug and Sheath (유전체 마개와 덮개가 부착된 구형 도파관의 평면 배열 안테나의 복사패턴 계산)

  • 김세윤;하헌태
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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    • v.29A no.9
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    • pp.8-14
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    • 1992
  • The radiation pattern of a rectangular-grid array antenna consisted of rectangular waveguides is represented by multiplication of its element and array factors. Calculated radiation patterns for excitation of TES110T mode inside the waveguides suffer from the blindness at a particular direction on E-plane. Numerical simulations show that the blindness can be removed by inserting dielectric plug inside the waveguides or covering dielectric sheath in front of the waveguides.

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A Study on the Control of Asymmetric Sidelobe Levels and Multiple Nulling in Linear Phased Array Antennas (선형 위상 배열 안테나의 비대칭 Sidelobe 레벨 제어 및 다중 Nulling에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Eui-Joon
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.20 no.11
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    • pp.1217-1224
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    • 2009
  • This paper newly proposes a methodology towards computing antenna element weights which are satisfying asymmetric sidelobe levels(SLLs) specified arbitrarily on both sides of the main beam pattern, in the linear phased array antenna pattern synthesis problem. Opposite to the conventional methods in which the element weights are directly optimized from the array factor, this method is based on the optimum perturbations of complex roots inherent to the Schelkunoff's polynomial form which is described for the array factor. From the proposed methodology, the capability of nulling the directions of multiple jammers is also possible by independently perturbing only the complex roots corresponding to each jamming direction, hence allowing an enhancement of the simplicity of the numerical procedure by means of a proper reduction of the dimension of the solution space. The complex weights over the array are then easily computed by substituting the optimally perturbed complex roots to the Schelkunoff's polynomial. Some examples are examined and numerically verified by substituting the extracted weights into the array factor equation.

The study of improving the performance of lower direction finding ability due to the interfered phase difference of circular array Antennas (원형배열안테나의 위상간섭에 의한 방향탐지 성능저하 개선연구)

  • Chung, Jae-Woo;Kim, Young-Kil
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2010.05a
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    • pp.535-539
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    • 2010
  • This paper include to study DoA(Direction of Arrival) for radio collection and monitoring system. The direction finding calculated by applying the CVDF (Correlation Vector Direction Finding) algorithm for the five circular dipole antenna over V / UHF band. To improve the accuracy of direction finding by applying CVDF algorithm needs to obtain ideal phase difference each antennas. However, a circular array antenna phase difference pattern may be distorted on a specific frequency band or to particular direction. The effect of installing each array antennas circularly and the effect of the interference of center pole (located in the center of a circular array antenna mount) may make the distortion of phase pattern. If you use an active antenna instead of passive antenna to obtain good sensitivity, you would measure the more distortion. This paper propose how to change combination of antennas to measure the phase in real-time and how to use antenna beam patterns for minimizing the degradation phenomena at applying simple CVDF algorithm and increasing the direction finding capability.

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Expansion of Variable Range of Oscillation Frequency of Active Phased Array Antenna by a Varactor Diode (바랙터다이오드에 의한 능동 위상차 배열 안테나의 발진 주파수 가변 범위의 확장)

  • 최영규
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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    • v.52 no.11
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    • pp.521-528
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    • 2003
  • A varactor diode was utilized in order to expand variable range of the natural oscillation frequency of an active phased-array antenna. We have conformed experimentally that the variable range of the natural oscillation frequency was expanded about three times in the oscillator controlled by the varactor diode. When frequency difference was given to the oscillators in the two elements antenna system, phase difference was appeared between the oscillators. The 2-, 3-, 5-elements patch antenna array was composed for the beam scanning experiments. All the above patch antennas showed good phased array characteristics. The experimental results are as follows that the scanning angle of the 2-elements array antenna is 28.6$^{\circ}$, the 3-elements array antenna is 29.4$^{\circ}$, and the 5-elements array antenna is 26.2$^{\circ}$.

On the Utilization of Polarization Dependency Acquired by an Intentionally Misaligned Antenna Array for Mitigation of GPS Jammers

  • Park, Kwansik;Seo, Jiwon
    • Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.291-296
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    • 2021
  • Recently, the dual-polarized antenna array has drawn attention due to the dependency of its signal processing gain on the signal polarization. Even though this polarization dependency makes it possible to mitigate a non-right-hand circularly polarized (non-RHCP) jamming signal from the same direction as a GPS signal, the dual-polarized antennas are not yet widely used for various applications. This study suggests a method that can acquire the polarization dependency of the signal-processing gain by intentionally misaligning antenna elements in a single-polarized antenna array. The simulation results show that the proposed method can successfully mitigate a non-RHCP jammer from the same direction as a GPS signal as if a dual-polarized antenna array does and provide comparable signal-to-jammer-plus-noise ratio (SJNR) performance with a completely aligned single-polarized antenna array and a dual-polarized antenna array.

A Study of Cross Alignment for Increasing the Performance of Small Antenna (소형 안테나의 성능 향상을 위한 직교 배치에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jong-Sung;Choi, Kyung;Kim, Jae-Heung
    • Journal of Industrial Technology
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    • v.22 no.B
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    • pp.155-161
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    • 2002
  • As the wireless communications are gradually developed, the higher frequency is demanded and the smaller the size of antenna shall be reduced by the wavelength of the operating frequency. However, the smaller the size of antenna becomes, the less the gain is obtained according to the frequency, so that a new attempt such as an array antenna has been examined to improve the characteristics. Also, for the convenience of communication, the omni-directional property is required. In this paper, two antennas system which is aligned in cross direction in tested and analyzed. The main scope is focused to get an appropriated distance between the two small antennas to get better properties. There are various ways of array arrangement, but in this study, it should be placed on the same PCB for easy implementation and the direction of each antenna are aligned to be a cross($90^{\circ}$) position. The study is carried out by comparing the radiation patterns mainly, and the theoretical expectation and the computer simulation are also executed. The final model is the folded IF-antennas system printed on PCB and the ideal dipole-antenna arrangement in also test to verify the possibility of our implementation. And it is finally proved by measuring experiments.

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Analysis of Direction Finding Accuracy for Amplitude-Phase Comparison and Correlative Interferometer Method (진폭-위상 복합비교 기법과 상관형 위상비교 기법의 방향탐지 정확도 분석)

  • Lim, Joong-Soo;Chae, Gyoo-Soo
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.195-201
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    • 2016
  • In this paper, we present the direction finding accuracy of correlative interferometer method and amplitude-phase comparison method. Spiral antennas are used for amplitude-phase comparison method and blade antennas are used for correlative interferometer method. Those are made for uniform circular array (UCA) direction finding antenna systems. We simulate the accuracy of azimuth angle with 3 antennas UCA when SNR is 20 dB and baseline is 0.5 wave length. Correlative interferometer method has better accuracy than amplitude-phase comparison method.

Three-dimensional beamforming techniques for LTE-A systems (LTE-A 시스템에서 3 차원 빔포밍 기법 연구)

  • Ji, Hyoungju;Shim, Byonghyo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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    • 2015.11a
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    • pp.43-44
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    • 2015
  • LTE-Advanced system has been deployed with 2 and 4 transmission antennas (Tx) while the specification supports up to 8Tx. Due to deployment space, antenna dimension and complexity, the needs of deploying 8Tx system has not been motivated by operators. Recently, three dimensional (3D) beamforming with active antenna has attracted significant attention in the wireless industry. By incorporating 2D active array into LTE-A systems, the system offers freedom in controlling radiation on elevation and horizontal dimension. When the number of antennas increases in the form of 2D arrangement, spatial separation can be realized simultaneously in horizontal and elevation domain and vertical beam-steering can increase SINR of UEs in high floors. In this paper, we study the system operations and implementations for supporting 3D beamforming with 8Tx antennas. In our schemes, by reusing the conventional CSI feedback framework, the system can operate 2D active array without harming the backward compatibility. Evaluation results show that 3D beamforming provides capacity boosting over the conventional 2D beamforming systems while keeping same antenna structure.

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Design of a Rectangular Waveguide Antenna for Automotive Side and Rear Radar Sensor Applications (차량 측후방 레이더 센서용 직사각형 도파관 안테나 설계)

  • Lee, Jae-Min;Ryu, Hong-Kyun;Woo, Jong-Myung;Koo, Bon-Hee
    • The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.42-52
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, a waveguide antenna is designed and fabricated for side and rear radar sensor of vehicles in UWB (Ultra Wide Band) high band (center frequency : 9.5 GHz, -10 dB bandwidth : 600 MHz (6.4 %)). For the radar antenna, a probe fed rectangular waveguide antenna having simple structure and wide bandwidth is used. An important performance factor in this antenna is the isolation between transmitting (TX) and receiving (RX) waveguide antennas because this radar system uses TX and RX antennas separately. Thus the isolation between two antennas was simulated for E-plane and H-plane array. As a result, it was verified that the isolation of the H-plane array of the antennas is better than E-plane array, due to the TE10 mode. Therefore, H-plane arrayed waveguide antennas were mounted on a T-shaped radar module and performance of antennas was investigated. The -10 dB bandwidth of the TX and RX antenna mounted on T-shaped radar module was measured as 1000 MHz (10.52 %) and 1090 MHz (11.47 %) respectively and the isolation is less than -50 dB in the operation band. The peak gain is 7.65 dBi for the TX antenna and 7.26 dBi for the RX antenna and the beamwidth of H-plane of TX and RX antenna was measured as $64^{\circ}$ and $65^{\circ}$ respectively. Consequently, we verified that the proposed waveguide antenna is appropriate for a vehicle radar applications.

Design for Triple Band Patch Array Antenna with High Detection Ability

  • Kim, In-Hwan;Min, Kyeong-Sik
    • Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.214-223
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    • 2013
  • This paper proposes a theoretical analysis of hidden device detection and a design of multiband circular polarization patch array antenna for non-linear junction detector system application. A good axial ratio of circular polarization patch antenna is realized by a new approach that employs inclined slots, two rectangular grooves and a truncated ground for the conventional antenna. A good axial ratio of the 1.5 dB lower is measured by having an asymmetric gap distance between the ground planes of the coplanar waveguide feeding structure. The common ground plane of the linear array has an optimum trapezoidal slot array to reduce the mutual coupling without increasing the distance between the radiators. The higher gain of about 1 dBi is realized by using the novel common ground structure. The measured return loss, gain, and axial ratio of the proposed single radiator, as well as the proposed array antennas, showed a good agreement with the simulated results.