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This document outlines different types of antenna arrays, including linear, circular, and planar arrays. It describes linear arrays as antenna elements arranged in a straight line, and can be 2-element arrays or N-element arrays with uniform amplitude and spacing. Circular arrays are described as having antenna elements arranged in a circular ring. Planar arrays have elements arranged over a planar surface, such as rectangular arrays, and provide more symmetrical patterns.

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This document outlines different types of antenna arrays, including linear, circular, and planar arrays. It describes linear arrays as antenna elements arranged in a straight line, and can be 2-element arrays or N-element arrays with uniform amplitude and spacing. Circular arrays are described as having antenna elements arranged in a circular ring. Planar arrays have elements arranged over a planar surface, such as rectangular arrays, and provide more symmetrical patterns.

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Arrays: Linear, Planar,

and Circular
By: John Kevin A. Toral
Course Outline
I) Introduction
A) Elements of Antenna
B) Gain or directivity of Antenna

II) Types of Array


A) Linear
1) 2-Element Array
2) N-element Linear Array with Uniform Amplitude and
Spacing
B) Circular
C) Planar
Introduction

 Antenna composes of elements


 These elements has low values of directivity
 Inapplication, antennas are required to have
very high gains.
How to achieve greater gains

 Increase the electrical size of the antenna


 Enlarging the dimensions of single elements
 The most efficient is to use an array.
What is an array?

 Anantenna array is a set of 2 or more


antennas. The signals from the antennas are
combined or processed in order to achieve
improved performance over that of a single
antenna.

-antenna theory
Tasks of Antenna Array

 Increase the overall gain


 Provide diversity reception
 Cancel out interference from a particular set
of direction
 Determine the direction of arrival of the
incoming signals
 To
maximize the Signal to Interference Plus
Noise Ratio(SINR)
Types of Array
Linear Arrays

 Antenna elements arranged along a straight


line.
 Elements of the array are uniformly-spaced.
Classifications of Linear Array

 2-Element Array
 N-elementLinear Array with Uniform
Amplitude and Spacing
2-Element Array
 The array elements are identical

 They are oriented in the same way is space


(identical polarization)

 Their excitation is of the same amplitude


N-element Linear Array with Uniform
Amplitude and Spacing
 An array of identical elements with identical
magnitudes and with a progressive phase is
called a uniform array.
Circular Array

 antenna elements arranged around a circular


ring.
 Applications
are radio direction finding, air
and space navigation, underground
propagation, radar, sonar.
 Unlike linear arrays, circular arrays can provide a 2D
angular scan, both horizontal φ and vertical θ scans.

 Unlike 2D planar arrays, circular arrays are basically 1D


linear arrays but in a circular form.

 Unlike linear arrays, a circular array can scan


horizontally for 360° with no distortions near the end-
fire directions.
Planar arrays
 Planar arrays are more versatile
 Antenna elements arranged over
some planar surface (example
- rectangular array).
 provide more symmetrical patterns
with lower side lobes
 much higher directivity (narrow main beam).
 Applications – tracking radars, remote sensing,
and communications.

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