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Development of a Smart-skin Phased Array System with a Honeycomb Sandwich microstrip Antenna
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- Authors
- Seong Ho Son, Soon Young Eom, Woon Bong Hwang
- Issue Date
- 2008-04
- Citation
- Smart Materials and Structures, v.17, no.3, pp.1-9
- ISSN
- 0964-1726
- Publisher
- Institute of Physics (IOP)
- Language
- English
- Type
- Journal Article
- Abstract
- We develop a smart-skin phased array antenna (PAA) with a scanning beam and cover the design, fabrication and testing of the smart-skin antenna structure, the phase shifter and electronic beam scanning. The smart skin is an organic honeycomb sandwich structure in which microstrip antennas are embedded that radiate a radio-frequency (RF) signal. The structure has excellent structural performance as a result of sandwich effects by facesheets and a honeycomb core. For ease of array feeding, the antenna element is excited by means of a coaxial probe. Astacked patch is used in order to increase the bandwidth. Electronic beam scanning is accomplished with a 4-bit digital phase shifter. The PAA design is processed at a center frequency of 7.5GHz, a bandwidth exceeding 500MHz, linear polarization and a scanning range of 45째. Performance is confirmed from experimental measurements made on a fabricated test model. © 2008 IOP Publishing Ltd.
- KSP Keywords
- Center frequency, Coaxial probe, Digital phase shifter, Electronic beam, Experimental measurements, Honeycomb core, Honeycomb sandwich structure, Linear polarization, Radio Frequency(RF), Smart skin, antenna elements