Edge diffraction effects on the RCS analysis of antenna array

Author

Xu, Zhi ; Yan, Xuequan ; Feng, Zhenghe ; Gong, Shuxi ; Liu, Qizhong

Author_Institution

Radar & Avionics Inst. of AVIC, Wuxi, China

fYear

2010

fDate

8-11 May 2010

Firstpage

1995

Lastpage

1998

Abstract

Diffraction effects of the edge region within the antenna array aperture have been discussed with the numerical simulation and measurement in the antenna array monostatic Radar Cross Section (RCS) analysis. Research illustrates that the edge of array presents dominant diffraction effects on the antenna mode RCS character evaluation in a wide frequency range, and bistatic RCS character proposes Radar Absorbing Material (RAM) is an effective approach for the shielding the edge diffraction.

Keywords

antenna arrays; aperture antennas; diffraction; radar absorbing materials; radar cross-sections; shielding; RCS analysis; antenna array aperture; antenna array monostatic radar cross section; antenna mode RCS character evaluation; bistatic RCS character; edge diffraction effects; edge diffraction shielding; numerical simulation; radar absorbing material; Antenna arrays; Aperture antennas; Electromagnetic scattering; Optical diffraction; Optical scattering; Radar antennas; Radar cross section; Radar scattering; Receiving antennas; Reflector antennas; Antenna Mode Scattering; Edge Diffraction; RCSR; Structural mode scattering; mostatic RCS;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology (ICMMT), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5705-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMMT.2010.5525156

Filename

5525156