Broadband Active Receiving Patch With Resistive Equalization

@article{citeulike:2636971, abstract = {The active integrated antenna (AIA) concept has been applied to design a broadband receiver front-end. A design procedure for active broadband patch antennas based on resistive equalization is presented. The use of the AIA has allowed the design of efficient RF front-ends by increasing its effective gain, noise figure, and merit . In addition to improving the classical parameters, the resistive equalization technique allows enlarging the bandwidths of the active antenna parameters versus the corresponding ones in passive antennas. A receiving patch antenna (with one amplifying stage) with a measured noise figure lower than 0.6 dB in a bandwidth over 38\% and an effective gain improvement of 13 dB over the corresponding passive antenna has been achieved. The -parameter has also been measured for both the active and passive antenna, resulting in a relative planar of 16 dB/K, with a ripple of 0.5 dB, over a 30\% bandwidth for the active antenna versus a of 22 dB/K for a typical front-end with a passive antenna over 20\% bandwidth.}, author = {Segovia-Vargas, D. and Castro-Galan, D. and Garcia-Munoz, L. E. and Gonzalez-Posadas, V. }, booktitle = {Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on}, citeulike-article-id = {2636971}, doi = {10.1109/TMTT.2007.912008}, journal = {Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on}, keywords = {active, antenna, broadband, patch, receiving, tesis}, number = {1}, pages = {56--64}, posted-at = {2008-04-07 10:43:44}, priority = {2}, title = {Broadband Active Receiving Patch With Resistive Equalization}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TMTT.2007.912008}, volume = {56}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2636971 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2636971 TI - Broadband Active Receiving Patch With Resistive Equalization T2 - Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on JF - Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on VL - 56 IS - 1 SP - 56 EP - 64 N2 - The active integrated antenna (AIA) concept has been applied to design a broadband receiver front-end. A design procedure for active broadband patch antennas based on resistive equalization is presented. The use of the AIA has allowed the design of efficient RF front-ends by increasing its effective gain, noise figure, and merit . In addition to improving the classical parameters, the resistive equalization technique allows enlarging the bandwidths of the active antenna parameters versus the corresponding ones in passive antennas. A receiving patch antenna (with one amplifying stage) with a measured noise figure lower than 0.6 dB in a bandwidth over 38% and an effective gain improvement of 13 dB over the corresponding passive antenna has been achieved. The -parameter has also been measured for both the active and passive antenna, resulting in a relative planar of 16 dB/K, with a ripple of 0.5 dB, over a 30% bandwidth for the active antenna versus a of 22 dB/K for a typical front-end with a passive antenna over 20% bandwidth. KW - active KW - antenna KW - broadband KW - patch KW - receiving KW - tesis AU - Segovia-Vargas, D AU - Castro-Galan, D AU - Garcia-Munoz, LE AU - Gonzalez-Posadas, V PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TMTT.2007.912008 ER -