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Low Cost Electronically Steered Phase Arrays For Weather Applications, Mauricio Sanchez-Barbetty
Low Cost Electronically Steered Phase Arrays For Weather Applications, Mauricio Sanchez-Barbetty
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The Electronically Steered Phased Array is one of the most versatile antennas used in radars applications. Some of the advantages of electronic steering are faster scan, no moving parts and higher reliability. However, the cost of phased arrays has always been prohibitive - in the order of $1M per square meter. The cost of a phased array is largely impacted by the cost of the high frequency electronics at each element and the cost of packaging. Advances in IC integration will allow incorporating multiple elements such as low noise amplifier, power amplifier, phase shifters and up/down-conversion into one or two …