Proceedings of 2015 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, July 6 - 9,Page(s)2086-2091
Abstract
A useful, low cost, low complexity, and one layer microstrip slot L band antenna
for secondary surveillance Radar (SSR) application is presented. The printed circuit feed network
is a rat-race divider to create sum and difference ports and sixteen unequaled power dividers to
satisfy the Chebyshev distribution. The feed network has an equally length parallel structure that
create constant group delay in all output ports and wide frequency bandwidth. The suggested
structure is a one-layer slot array of 2 × 8 slot elements that are fed with a microstrip corporate
feed network. To improve total frequency bandwidth the slots are designed with unequal lengths.
A substrate with low permittivity is used to decrease the side lobes. A 2 : 1 VSWR bandwidth of
9.4% is achieved with the presented geometry in simulation to cover the 1030 ± 10 MHz transmit
and the 1090 ± 10 MHz receive frequency band. The antenna gain for the sum pattern is 18.5 dB
and 19 dB at 1030 MHz and 1090 MHz, respectively with a 3 dB beam width of 52◦ in elevation
and 9.5◦ in azimuth. The difference has a −19 dB null at the peak of the sum pattern and an
acceptable pattern against the sum pattern for SSR applications. Furthermore, the antenna has
no need of the back fill antenna to eliminate the back lobe, which is critical for SSR applications.
Its low complexity structure makes it appropriate for many radar applications.
Citation
Gholamreza Askari,
Maziar Hedayati,
Hamid Mirmohammad Sadeghi,
and
Parisa Moslemi,
"Design and Implementation of a Planar Slot Antenna for SSR," Proceedings of 2015 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, July 6 - 9,Page(s)2086-2091