1. Introduction A direct broadcasting satellite(DBS) service via Koreasat 3 is currently provided and there are many subscribes for a residential house. In addition, many people want to watch the DBS TV even at vehicles because it has advantages over terrestrial TV broadcasting with high quality, simultaneity, wide coverage, and so on. Several antenna systems for mobile DBS reception have been ...

As the use of phased array radars becomes more established for weather surveillance, adaptive array processing techniques will become more important to the weather radar community. Such techniques can be applied to phased array radars to improve angular resolution and also to suppress clutter compared to conventional beamforming methods. Thus, enhanced details of weather phenomena can be realiz...

The scattering characteristics of a phased array depends on its feed network. The variation of scattered fields within the feed network affects the antenna mode scattering. In this paper, an attempt is made to determine the radar cross section (RCS) of a planar array with parallel-feed network. The scattered field of the array is obtained by following the path of the signals through the antenna...

In phased array antennas, the number of radiator rows is one of the important factors to minimizing both cost and weight. Therefore, the antenna tilt angles having relation with the element spacing are among the important design parameters. In this paper, the optimum tilt angles for several types of dipole planar arrays are investigated theoretically. To obtain optimum tilt angles, the directiv...

This paper presents a coplanar waveguide fed rectangular slot antenna tuned by a patch stub. The presented antenna has 98% impedance bandwidth, and 6 dB average gain. The antenna can be used in phased array applications with more than 61% usable bandwidth.

In this paper, novel applications of metamaterials composite structure in antenna engineering has been considered. Compared with the conventional materials, metamaterials exhibits some specific features which are not found in conventional materials. Some unique applications of these composite structures as an antenna substrate, superstrate, feed networks, phased array antennas, ground planes, a...

Photonic integration is very promising to bring down volume and weight of phased-array beamforming networks. In addition, photonics allows for increased functionality for widebandwidth systems. In this paper we demonstrate the feasibility of phase and amplitude control of a 16-element phased-array antenna with a single InP integrated circuit. The concept and design of an optical phase locked lo...

We propose a novel all-optical structure of phase lock loop for locking two semiconductor lasers with a stable microwave offset for use in phased-array antenna systems.

In contrast to traditional parabolic dish antennas which must be mechanically steered to point at satellites, phased array antennas operate by electronically activating subarrays in configurations that can be maneuvered across the surface of the antenna without any physical movement. This leads to many benefits including an increase in capacity from the fact that multiple active areas can be en...