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Design of Ka-Band Phased Array Antenna with Calibration Function

Xiao Liu^1,2, Xingyao Zeng^1,*, Chengxiang Hao¹, Haibo Zhang¹, Zhongjun Yu^1,2, Ting Lv³, Meng Li⁴, Zhen Zhang⁵

1 Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100094, China
2 School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 101408, China
3 University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China
4 Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, China
5 Audio Analytic, Cambridge, UK

* Corresponding Author: Xingyao Zeng. Email:

Computers, Materials & Continua 2023, 74(3), 6251-6261. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2023.027114

Received 11 January 2022; Accepted 30 March 2022; Issue published 28 December 2022

Abstract

In this paper, we have proposed a novel structure of Ka-band based phased array antenna with calibration function. In the design of Ka-band antenna, the active phased array system is adopted and the antenna would work in the dual polarization separation mode. We have given out the schematic diagram for the proposed Ka-band antenna, where the Ka-band antenna is in the form of waveguide slot array antenna, with 96 units in azimuth and 1 unit in distance. Each group of units is driven by a single-channel Transmitter/Receiver (T/R) component, and the whole array contains 192 T/R components in total. The size of the T/R component is 55 mm (length) × 50 mm (width) × 5.8 mm (height), 3 Sub-micro Sub-Miniature Push-on (SSMP) blind sockets and a 21-core low-frequency socket are designed on the two sides of the T/R component. In order to meet the technical specifications of phased array antenna, the Ka-band transceiver component is designed based on Low Temperatrue Co-fired Ceramic (LTCC) technology to achieve miniaturization and lightweight. In our approach, the feed network includes two parts: transceiver network and calibration network. The transceiver network consists of 24 1:8 time-delay power dividers, 12 two-way power dividers and 2 six-way time-delay power dividers. The power supply required by the Ka-band antenna unit is provided to each active component by the power module after Ka band wavelet control distribution. Simulation and measurement results are given in the form of standing wave and scanning capability.

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