Fabrication and measurement of a large, monolithic, PCB-based AESA Conference

Paulsen, L, Livadaru, M, Dobbins, E et al. (2016). Fabrication and measurement of a large, monolithic, PCB-based AESA . 0 10.1109/ARRAY.2016.7832654

cited authors

  • Paulsen, L; Livadaru, M; Dobbins, E; Wolf, J; West, J; Walker, A; Olen, V; Reyland, J; Olson, C; Rebeiz, G

abstract

  • This paper discusses a fabrication approach and experimental validation of a very large, planar active electronically scanned array (AESA). The planar AESA architecture employs a monolithic printed circuit board (PCB) with 768 active antenna elements at X-Band. Manufacturing physically large arrays with high element counts is discussed in relation to construction, assembly and yield considerations. Measured active array patterns of the ESA are also presented.

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publication date

  • July 2, 2016

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

volume

  • 0