MSW applications for phased array antennas
Abstract
A potential application of MSW technology lies in the area of time delay for future low-sidelobe wide-bandwidth phased array antennas. High-precision MSW electronically tunable analog time-delay units in transmit/receive modules in phased arrays have the potential of greatly enhancing antenna system capabilities, by increasing instantaneous operating bandwidth and decreasing sidelobe levels, over phased array systems using only phase shifters or switched lines for beam steering and control. This paper provides a status report of MSW time delays for such arrays.
- Publication:
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Circuits Systems and Signal Processing
- Pub Date:
- 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985CSSP....4..335S
- Keywords:
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- Antenna Arrays;
- Magnetostatics;
- Phased Arrays;
- Sidelobe Reduction;
- Time Lag;
- Acoustic Propagation;
- Bandwidth;
- Charge Coupled Devices;
- Coaxial Cables;
- Delay Lines;
- Electromagnetic Surface Waves;
- Fiber Optics;
- Microstrip Transmission Lines;
- Phase Shift;
- Single Crystals;
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering