• DocumentCode
    3577748
  • Title

    Multi-facet AESA antenna with “tile” technology

  • Author

    Byrne, G. ; Kinghorn, A.M. ; Lyon, R.W. ; Morrison, G.D.

  • Author_Institution
    Selex ES Ltd., Edinburgh, UK
  • fYear
    2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    This paper describes the development and deployment of “tile” array technology, which is the foundation of lighter and cheaper AESA antennas. Close agreement is demonstrated between the modelled and measured performance of an X-band array, which provided azimuth and elevation beam-steering over a 20% bandwidth. Furthermore the authors show how the thinness of the tile can be exploited in a multi-facet antenna, and present the measured beam patterns of an experimental dihedral antenna.
  • Keywords
    antenna arrays; beam steering; X-band array; airborne electronically scanned antenna; azimuth beam-steering; beam pattern measurement; dihedral antenna; elevation beam-steering; multifacet AESA antenna; tile array technology; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Arrays; Azimuth; Radio frequency; Transmission line measurements; AESA; TR module; multi-facet array; tile antenna;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Radar Conference (Radar), 2014 International
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/RADAR.2014.7060401
  • Filename
    7060401