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This paper investigates the consistency in phased array element performance by extracting information from the Full Matrix Capture (FMC) of a reflection from a planar interface. The purpose of this work is to generate a robust methodology for tracking phased array performance over time, therefore, ensuring the reliability of measured data. To achieve this, a calibration method has been developed that...
The first modular 4-channel frontend for exploring phased array communications at a carrier frequency of 300 GHz was developed. A metamorphic HEMT process with a gate length of 35 nm was the key enabling technology for the integration of each transmit and receive channel. All channels implemented the quadrature direct conversion architecture. The measured RF bandwidth exceeded 55 GHz for the receive...
High-power, high-linearity CC-MUTC photodiodes, directly integrated into connected and tightly coupled array antennas enable ultra-wideband (UWB) phased array operation with improved size, weight, and power (SWaP). Presented is high-fidelity beam steering and bandwidth performance of several of these one-dimensional photodiode-integrated antenna arrays.
A new combined REV calibration method for large phased array antenna is presented in this paper. This method is based on power measurement, so the measurement can reach a high stability in high frequency. It can also improve the calibration accuracy and efficiency at the same time, especially in large phased array antenna. Simulation results testify the correctness of this new method.
An element failure diagnosis method for phased array antenna is proposed. The method is based on the matrix method by solving inverse matrix to retrieve the excitations of the antenna under test. Taking advantages of the phase shift of the excitation, the receiving probe can be fixed during the measurement process to reduce positioning errors. The results have good accuracy to identify the locations...
5G, the next generation of wireless communications, is focusing on modern antenna technologies like massive MIMO, phased arrays and mm-wave band to obtain data rates up to 10 Gbps. In this paper, we have proposed a new 64 element, 8×8 phased series fed patch antenna array, for 28 GHz, mm-wave band 5G mobile base station antennas. The phased array steers its beam along the horizontal axis to provide...
Fast cardiac imaging using diverging waves (DW) is receiving much attention. Coherent compounding is important to keep spatial resolution and CNR acceptable. Two approaches have been presented in literature to do so: i) the full aperture of the probe is used and the virtual focus is moved along an arc centered at the center of the probe (ARC); ii) a sub-aperture is used and the virtual focus is linearly...
The arrival time detection probability and the measurement range of transit-time ultrasonic flow meters are undermined by the sound drift effect. One solution to this problem is utilizing a phased-array beam steering technique to compensate the bend of the ultrasonic beams. The design, the fabrication and the characterization of two-dimensional flexural ultrasonic phased arrays is investigated in...
Transit-time ultrasonic flow meters, measuring the time difference between upstream and downstream propagation of ultrasonic beams, have been widely utilized to obtain the average velocity of flow in many applications including natural gas flow rate measurement. The signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the ultrasonic signals frequently suffers from the sound drift effect, and thus, the arrival time detection...
We present a fully-populated 8×8 2D-phased array, capable of emitting directed air-coupled ultrasound at 40 kHz with λ/2-pitch size for zero grating lobes. In comparison to our previous work, in which we describe a 1D-phased array, we use 3D-printing to realize the wave guide structure. Besides the key idea to separate the vibrating from the acoustic aperture, the 3D-printing approach allows implementing...
Based on the linear relationship of channel data between synthetic transmit aperture (STA) and apodized plane wave (PW) firing, we previously proposed compressed sensing (CS) based STA (CS-STA) for linear array (Liu et al, IEEE TMI 2017), which achieves higher frame rate and higher contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) than STA while maintaining its high resolution. Because diverging wave (DW) instead of...
Sparse multistatic array designs that are based on the effective aperture concept enable real-time and cost-effective 3D CW terahertz imaging solutions. However, reduced system costs or challenging imaging scenarios eventually require a violation of the Nyquist sampling criterion, which leads to the appearance of grating lobes in the terahertz image. We propose a method to suppress grating lobes by...
The performance of superdirective beamforming of a practical circular hydrophone array is investigated. The received signal of a 16-element circular hydrophone array with radius of 0.25m are measured in the anechoic water tank. The array manifold at the frequency of 1.11kHz is obtained. The superdirective beamforming of the circular array is designed and realized. The correctness and effectiveness...
In this paper, we describe the development of a new L-band (1.4 GHz) Cryogenic Phased Array Feed (PAF) system, referred to as the GBT2 array. Results from initial measurements made with the GBT2 array are also presented. The PAF was developed for the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) as part of the Focal L-band Array for the GBT (FLAG) project. During the first stage of the development work (Phase I), a...
With the development of cyber threats on the Internet, the number of malware, especially unknown malware, is also dramatically increasing. Since all of malware cannot be analyzed by analysts, it is very important to find out new malware that should be analyzed by them. In order to cope with this issue, the existing approaches focused on malware classification using static or dynamic analysis results...
Osaka University, Toshiba and the Osaka Local Government started a new project to develop the Osaka Urban Demonstration Network. The main sensor of the Osaka Network is a 2-node Phased Array Radar Network and lightning location system. Data products that are created both in local high performance computer and Toshiba Computer Cloud, include single and multi-radar data, vector wind, quantitative precipitation...
In this paper, a beamforming system for LTE- Advanced based on Array sampling technology is proposed. Antenna Array that has been designed covers LTE mid and high bands. RF multiplexer 8x1 switch has been designed and simulated. The system is composed of agile RF frontend and FPGA digital signal processing unit.
In this paper, we propose a novel array interpolation method in logarithmic domain for enhanced direction of arrival (DOA) estimation. Array interpolation techniques are broadly utilized in the DOA estimation for achieving better angular resolution. Generally, to generate interpolated array elements from original array elements, the method of linear least squares (LLS) has been used. When we use the...
This paper describes a 28GHz CMOS direct conversion transceiver with packaged 2×4 patch antenna arrays for 5G communication. Test results show good RF performances of Rx NF 6.7dB, Maximum Tx EIRP 31.5dBm (1PA Pout_sat =10.5dBm), LO integrated phase noise −37.8dBc (0.67°), Rx/Tx EVM around 2.2% (−33.1dB) at mid RF power, and well-fitted beam control capability.
A new approach to the analysis of the radiation problems of the linear waveguide array is presented. The problem of radiation from the linear waveguide phased array for the case scan in H-plane is considered. Electrodynamics algorithm built in a Cartesian coordinate system on the basis of method of cross-linking, method of the extended area and using the machine of the Green function. The horns in...
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