Simple Formula for Aperture Efficiency Reduction Due to Grating Lobes in Planar Phased Arrays
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2016

This paper numerically validates a simple formula to calculate the aperture efficiency reduction due to grating lobes in planar phased arrays. Array antennas with element spacing greater than one wavelength will produce grating lobes. Grating lobes are not a big problem in most new millimeter-wave applications, except for the fact that they reduce the aperture efficiency and thereby normally the directivity. When the element pattern is known, the simple formula can be used to calculate the aperture efficiency in the presence of grating lobes. The formula is verified by the simulations of a large uniformly excited planar slot array. The agreement is good for both broadside radiation and a phased main beam, even if we use the far field of an isolated slot. Using the far field of the embedded slot element gives almost the same results, except when a grating lobe radiates along the ground plane and the isolated element pattern is nonzero in this direction.

aperture efficiency

array antenna

Grating lobe

Författare

Abbas Vosoogh

Chalmers, Signaler och system, Kommunikation, Antenner och Optiska Nätverk

Per-Simon Kildal

Chalmers, Signaler och system, Kommunikation, Antenner och Optiska Nätverk

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

0018-926X (ISSN)

Vol. 64 6 2263-2269 7448404

Ämneskategorier

Elektroteknik och elektronik

DOI

10.1109/TAP.2016.2551259

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