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Phased Arrays & Printed-Circuit Antennas: Presented By: Kenneth D. Reyes

Phased arrays use a large group of similar antennas that can be driven with precise timing differences to electronically steer radiation patterns. They allow for improved gain and directivity. Common configurations include using a common transmitter or receiver to drive multiple antennas. Printed-circuit antennas can be directly fabricated onto circuit boards, avoiding the need for separate antenna structures, feed lines, and connectors. They include loop, inverted-F, meander line, and dielectric antenna designs. Phased arrays and printed-circuit antennas have applications in fields like radar, communications, and satellites.

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Phased Arrays & Printed-Circuit Antennas: Presented By: Kenneth D. Reyes

Phased arrays use a large group of similar antennas that can be driven with precise timing differences to electronically steer radiation patterns. They allow for improved gain and directivity. Common configurations include using a common transmitter or receiver to drive multiple antennas. Printed-circuit antennas can be directly fabricated onto circuit boards, avoiding the need for separate antenna structures, feed lines, and connectors. They include loop, inverted-F, meander line, and dielectric antenna designs. Phased arrays and printed-circuit antennas have applications in fields like radar, communications, and satellites.

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PHASED ARRAYS &

PRINTED-CIRCUIT ANTENNAS

Presented by:
Kenneth D. Reyes
PHASED ARRAYS

Patch Antennas
Large group of similar
antennas on a common plane Slot Antennas

Separate Antennas
PHASED ARRAYS

Impedance matching circuits


These are driven by
Power-splitting circuits
transmission lines
Phase shift circuits
PURPOSE OF PHASED ARRAYS

Improved Gain

Improved Directivity
RADIATION PATTERN

Wide range

Electronically “steered”
COMMON CONFIGURATIONS

Multiple antennas are driven by a common


1
transmitter or feed a common receiver.
COMMON CONFIGURATIONS

Multiple antennas are driven by a common


transmitter or feed a common receiver.

A low-power transmitter amplifier or low-noise


2 receiver amplifier associated with each dipole
or patch in the array.
COMMON CONFIGURATIONS

Both 1 and 2 switching and


phase shifting are controlled by a
microcontroller or computer
APPLICATIONS

RADAR Cell Phone WLANs Satellites


Systems
PRINTED-CIRCUIT ANTENNAS

Antennas made right on a printed


circuit board.

Antenna structures, feed lines and


connectors are no more needed.
LOOP ANTENNA

Length is usually in the 0.1λ to λ


at the operating frequency.
Characteristic impedance is
about 10 Ω at 0.5λ but as high as
120 Ω for λ
Loops are effective in short-
range applications
INVERTED-F ANTENNA

A variation of the ground plane


as it is designed to work over a
conducting ground plane.
Different lengths for various
segments.
The radiation pattern is
effectively omnidirectional.
MEANDER

A meander is one of a series of


regular sinuous curves, bends,
loops, turns, or windings in the
channel of a river, stream, or
other watercourse.
MEANDER LINE ANTENNA

Essentially a half-wave dipole.


It shortens an antenna by bending the
conductors back on themselves to save
space.
They are designed to have wide
bandwidth or to be able to operate on
multiple bands.
DIELECTRIC ANTENNA

Copper pattern elements are formed on some type of resonant


dielectric material such as ceramic or some derivative thereof.
It often uses the inverted-F, dipole, or meander line
configurations.
No ground plane is necessary for operation.
These antennas are small and have a wide bandwidth, and are
often available as a component for mounting on a printed-
circuit board.
PHASED ARRAYS &
PRINTED-CIRCUIT ANTENNAS

Presented by:
Kenneth D. Reyes

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