Design and development of a V-shaped printed dipole antenna array for passive radar

Author

Knott, Peter ; Nickel, Ulrich R O

Author_Institution

Fraunhofer Inst. for High Freq. Phys. & Radar Tech. FHR, Wachtberg, Germany

fYear

2011

fDate

11-15 April 2011

Firstpage

961

Lastpage

964

Abstract

A V-shaped printed dipole antenna element has been designed for application in the GAMMA passive radar demonstrator system. Preliminary measurement results show good agreement with electromagnetic simulations. The fabrication of the full scale antenna array is currently in progress. For calibration of the array, the embedded radiation patterns of the antenna element have yet to be measured. Future work will include evaluation of the antenna performance in operation. Performance and radiation pattern measurements with the full scale antenna array are currently in progress.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; dipole antenna arrays; microstrip antenna arrays; passive radar; radar antennas; GAMMA passive radar demonstrator system; V-shaped printed dipole antenna array; antenna element; electromagnetic simulation; embedded antenna radiation pattern; full scale antenna array; Antenna arrays; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Arrays; Dipole antennas; Finite element methods; Passive radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0250-1

Type

conf

Filename

5782600