Coplanar waveguide slot-coupled patch antenna electronic scanning array for on-the-move SATCOM

Author

Keller, Steven D. ; Harris, Russell W. ; Kingkeo, Khamsouk

Author_Institution

U.S. Army Res. Lab., Adelphi, MD, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

1-5 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The design of a Ka-band coplanar waveguide slot-coupled patch antenna ESA with integrated MEMS phase shifters has been described above. The incorporation of MEMS phase shifters into the ESA design results in a compact, efficient uplink mechanism for a future Army satellite communication system. A control board for biasing the phase shifters and initiating beam steering will be incorporated into the final array. The details of this design and the measured beam steering results of the fully-fabricated demonstrator array will be presented at the 2009 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Conference.

Keywords

coplanar waveguide components; coplanar waveguides; microstrip antennas; phase shifters; coplanar waveguide slot-coupled patch antenna electronic scanning array; integrated MEMS phase shifters; on-the-move SATCOM; Antenna arrays; Antenna measurements; Beam steering; Communication system control; Coplanar waveguides; Micromechanical devices; Patch antennas; Phase shifters; Phased arrays; Satellite communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2009. APSURSI '09. IEEE

Conference_Location

Charleston, SC

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3647-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2009.5171614

Filename

5171614