Cavity Backed Capacitively Coupled Stacked Patch Element for Electrically Small P-Band Array
Conference: GeMiC 2014 - German Microwave Conference
03/10/2014 - 03/12/2014 at Aachen, Germany
Proceedings: GeMiC 2014
Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Limbach, Markus; Gabler, B.; Horn, R.; Kosc, A.; Maria, A. Di (SAR-Technology, Microwaves and Radar Institute, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany)
Abstract:
The Microwaves and Radar Institute at the German Aerospace Center operate an airborne multi-frequency, polarimetric, imaging SAR system. The F-SAR sensor is equipped with a variety of different antennas, based on patch technology. A new antenna element is developed for the P-Band frequency range from 400 to 470 MHz. Due to the requirements of the aircraft the size of the antenna array, and therefore of each single element, is reduced to a minimum. A cavity backed, capacitive coupled stacked patch element is designed and presented in this paper.