Study of Grating Efficiency of Planar Arrays
Paper in proceeding, 2015
This paper studies the aperture efficiency reduction due to grating lobes of a uniformly excited planar array. The grating lobes will not cause major interference problems in the millimeter wave region, because of the attenuation in the atmosphere, but they cause a reduction of the directivity and thereby aperture efficiency of the antenna. Therefore, we present a simple formula for calculating the aperture efficiency in the presence of grating lobes, from knowledge of the element pattern. The accuracy of the formula is verified by comparing with simulated results for a full array with slot elements.
grating lobe
aperture efficiency
array antenna
Author
Abbas Vosoogh
Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks
Per-Simon Kildal
Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks
9th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2015, Lisbon, Portugal, 13-17 May 2015
7228803
978-889070185-6 (ISBN)
Areas of Advance
Information and Communication Technology
Subject Categories
Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
ISBN
978-889070185-6