Co-Design of Low-Profile Linear Microstrip Arrays with Wide-Band Spatial Filtering Capabilities

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Main Authors: Benoni, Arianna, Salucci, Marco, Massa, Andrea
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Published: 2024
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author Benoni, Arianna
Salucci, Marco
Massa, Andrea
author_facet Benoni, Arianna
Salucci, Marco
Massa, Andrea
contents The design of low-profile linear microstrip arrays with wide-band spatial filtering capabilities is dealt with. An innovative architecture, leveraging the angular selectivity of offset stacked patch (OSP) radiators, is proposed to implement phased arrays (PAs) with inter-element spacing larger than half-wavelength that feature remarkable grating lobes (GLs) suppression properties and an enhanced gain within a non-negligible down-looking scanning angular range. The PA layout is then obtained by optimizing the optimal micro-scale geometrical descriptors of the radiating elements so that the macro-scale electromagnetic (EM) features of the arising finite-size PA fulfill the user-defined requirements. A set of numerical test cases, concerned with a variation of the array size and its polarization, is presented to assess the capabilities, the flexibility, and the potentialities of the proposed spatial filtering technique (SFT) also in comparison with competitive state-of-the-art alternatives. The performance of a printed circuit board (PCB)-manufactured prototype are experimentally assessed, as well.
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spellingShingle Co-Design of Low-Profile Linear Microstrip Arrays with Wide-Band Spatial Filtering Capabilities
Benoni, Arianna
Salucci, Marco
Massa, Andrea
Signal Processing
The design of low-profile linear microstrip arrays with wide-band spatial filtering capabilities is dealt with. An innovative architecture, leveraging the angular selectivity of offset stacked patch (OSP) radiators, is proposed to implement phased arrays (PAs) with inter-element spacing larger than half-wavelength that feature remarkable grating lobes (GLs) suppression properties and an enhanced gain within a non-negligible down-looking scanning angular range. The PA layout is then obtained by optimizing the optimal micro-scale geometrical descriptors of the radiating elements so that the macro-scale electromagnetic (EM) features of the arising finite-size PA fulfill the user-defined requirements. A set of numerical test cases, concerned with a variation of the array size and its polarization, is presented to assess the capabilities, the flexibility, and the potentialities of the proposed spatial filtering technique (SFT) also in comparison with competitive state-of-the-art alternatives. The performance of a printed circuit board (PCB)-manufactured prototype are experimentally assessed, as well.
title Co-Design of Low-Profile Linear Microstrip Arrays with Wide-Band Spatial Filtering Capabilities
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16914