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Efficiencies And System Temperature For A Beamforming Array, Karl F. Warnick, Brian D. Jeffs
Efficiencies And System Temperature For A Beamforming Array, Karl F. Warnick, Brian D. Jeffs
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For an active beamforming array, standard definitions for efficiencies and system temperature are not available. We use noise considerations to generalize the single-antenna conventions for aperture efficiency, spillover efficiency, radiation efficiency, and system temperature to arrays. The treatment leads to a new noise matching efficiency that quantifies the effect of mutual coupling on amplifier noise. Numerical results for a phased array feed indicate that the noise increase caused by mutual coupling can be significant.