Design of K-band transmitter for anti-collision radar applications

Author

Feng, Xu ; Zhengxin, Wang ; Xu, Chen ; Xin, Wang

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Integrated Microsyst., Peking Univ. Shenzhen Grad. Sch., Shenzhen, China

Volume

4

fYear

2012

fDate

5-8 May 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, a compact K-band transmitter is designed with discrete components for anti-collision radar system. The transmitter consists of a VCO, power divider and micro-strip antenna array. To improve phase noise performance of the VCO, a miniaturized hairpin shaped stepped impedance resonator (SIR) is used instead of conventional resonator. The parallel feedback structure VCO is designed to operate at 24.14 GHz. The simulation results show that the proposed VCO provides a high output power of 12.5 dBm. The phase noise is -90 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz offset. The proposed micro-strip antenna array consists of 14×6 elements. The simulation results show that the antenna has a gain of 26.5dB, the -10dB bandwidth is 1GHz from 23.6GHz to 24.6GHz. The calculated effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP) of this transmitter is about 36 dBm.

Keywords

microstrip antenna arrays; phase noise; power dividers; radar antennas; radar transmitters; resonators; voltage-controlled oscillators; SIR; VCO parallel feedback structure; anticollision radar application; bandwidth 1 GHz; compact K-band transmitter; discrete components; effective isotropic radiated power; frequency 23.6 GHz to 24.6 GHz; gain 26.5 dB; microstrip antenna array; miniaturized hairpin-shaped stepped impedance resonator; phase noise performance; power divider; K-band transmitter; SIR; anti-collision radar; micro-strip antenna array;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology (ICMMT), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shenzhen

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2184-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMMT.2012.6230279

Filename

6230279