Monolithic microwave integrated circuit devices for active array antennas
Abstract
Two different aspects of active antenna array design were investigated. The transition between monolithic microwave integrated circuits and rectangular waveguides was studied along with crosstalk in multiconductor transmission lines. The boundary value problem associated with a discontinuity in a microstrip line is formulated. This entailed, as a first step, the derivation of the propagating as well as evanescent modes of a microstrip line. The solution is derived to a simple discontinuity problem: change in width of the center strip. As for the multiconductor transmission line problem. A computer algorithm was developed for computing the crosstalk noise from the signal to the sense lines. The computation is based on the assumption that these lines are terminated in passive loads.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- August 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984STIN...8434675M
- Keywords:
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- Antenna Arrays;
- Discontinuity;
- Integrated Circuits;
- Microstrip Transmission Lines;
- Microwave Circuits;
- Rectangular Waveguides;
- Transient Response;
- Algorithms;
- Boundary Value Problems;
- Crosstalk;
- Project Planning;
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering