Design of Compact Dual-Polarized 1.2–10 GHz Eleven Feed for Decade Bandwidth Radio Telescopes
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2012

The Eleven antenna is a log-periodic folded-dipole-pair array with two unique radiation characteristics: a constant beamwidth and a fixed phase center location over a decade bandwidth. This paper presents a new compact design of a 1.2-10 GHz Eleven antenna, as a feed for reflector antennas by re-arranging the geometry of the outermost elements of the antenna. Due to the compact size, it is possible to put the whole feed system inside a compact cryostat and cool it down to cryogenic temperatures, in order to reduce the system noise temperature in radio telescope applications. The new compact Eleven feed has only a 40% volume of the original standard Eleven feed with a very similar performance. This reduces the capacity requirement for the cryogenic cooling system significantly and therefore the power consumption for future radio telescopes, such as the square kilometer array (SKA). The concept behind this compact design is analyzed in the paper. Simulations and measurements presented here have verified the design.

Författare

Jian Yang

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

Miroslav Pantaleev

Chalmers, Rymd- och geovetenskap, Onsala rymdobservatorium

Per-Simon Kildal

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

Leif Helldner

Chalmers, Rymd- och geovetenskap, Onsala rymdobservatorium

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

0018926x (ISSN) 15582221 (eISSN)

Vol. 60 5 2210-2218 6163374

Styrkeområden

Informations- och kommunikationsteknik

Ämneskategorier

Elektroteknik och elektronik

DOI

10.1109/TAP.2012.2189732

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