Overlapped Subarray Architecture of an Wideband Phased Array Antenna with Interference Suppression Capability

作     者：Quazi Md. Alfred Tapas Chakravarty Salil Kumar Sanyal 

作者机构：Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering University Institute of Technology University of Burdwan Burdwan India Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Jadavpur University Kolkata India Tata Consultancy Services Kolkata India 

出 版 物：《Journal of Electromagnetic Analysis and Applications》 (电磁分析与应用期刊（英文）)

年 卷 期：2013年第5卷第5期

页      面：201-204页

学科分类：0810[工学-信息与通信工程] 08[工学] 081001[工学-通信与信息系统] 

主　　题：Phased Array Subarray Time-Delay Overlapped Array 

摘      要：This paper presents a novel architecture of combining the linear array of antenna elements, where each antenna element has digitally selectable true time-delays as weights. Use of time-delays for beam-formation inherently makes the phased array network a wideband system. In particular, this technique envisage a new method of sharing antenna elements, by fixed overlapped sub-array architecture, which is able to maintain permissible element spacing to avoid grating lobe in antenna pattern. Moreover, this scheme additionally offers an easier null steering capability to the subarray architecture. This method essentially eliminates the need for intensive computation of complex weight vectors attached to each antenna element.