Advanced satellite communications system needs large-scale satellite-borne antenna with a function of beam steering and/or multiple spot beams to cover wide service area with high antenna gain. Although phased array antenna is very useful for the feed for the large reflector to satisfy the requirements above, it generally causes increase in the equipment weight, feed loss, and complexity in bea...

The proposed wideband shorted planar inverted cone antenna (SPICA) has been described as a two element antenna array in this paper. The two element array by this antenna with proper phase of excitation and spacing between the elements provide superdirective array characteristic. This array gives peak endfire directivity from 3.502 dBi to 10.3 dBi and radiation efficiency above 98% in the operat...

This paper present a circular patch microstrip array antenna operate in KU-band (10.9GHz – 17.25GHz). The proposed circular patch array antenna will be in light weight, flexible, slim and compact unit compare with current antenna used in KU-band. The paper also presents the detail steps of designing the circular patch microstrip array antenna. An Advance Design System (ADS) software is used to ...

An optimal design of a linear antenna array is presented. The antenna array is optimized using a particle swarm optimization based method in order to produce a radiation pattern that has the minimum possible side lobe level and the maximum possible gain at the desired direction. The method has been applied to collinear wire-dipole arrays and seems to be suitable for improving the radiation patt...

This paper presents microstrip array antenna integrated with novel shapes of 2D-electromagnetic band-gap structure (2DEBG). Three different shapes of 2D-EBG are used for harmonic suppression, optimizing the current distribution on the patches and decreasing the mutual coupling between array elements. As a result, the performance of the antenna array is improved. The three novel shapes of 2D-EBG...

The suitable use of an antenna array at the base station of a communication system results in improved Signal to Interference Ratio (SIR). In this paper, Linear Array (LA), Circular Array (CA) and Concentric Circular Antenna Array (CCAA) are used at the base station of a direct sequence code division multiple access (CDMA) systems. To suppress multiple access interference (MAI), the proposed sc...

A concept of modulated scattering array antenna is proposed based on the modulated scattering technique. The array antenna consists of one antenna element and several modulated scattering elements (MSE). The configuration of the array antenna is very simple because only one branch of the front-end circuit is required. It is shown by experimental investigations that a 3-element modulated scatter...

This paper deals with a scheme of Antenna array side lobe reduction by varying amplitude of each element of the antenna array using the Tsukamoto fuzzy logic controller. Here it has been tried to reduce the Side Lobe Level of the antenna array radiation pattern by changing the amplitude of the antenna array elements. Spacing between the antenna array elements and the corresponding phase shift i...

We discuss sparse phased array antenna architectures by the use of multiple transmit antenna positions in order to reduce the number of needed receiver channels. We also present a compact array architecture where the synthetic array antenna size is doubled without increasing the physical array size significantly. We compare sparse arrays of 10, 20, 40 and 80 receiver positions respectively (tog...