Adaptive Thinning for Failed Elements in the Airborne Phased Array Radar Transmit Aperture
Element failures degrade the performance of an antenna array. The rate of failure depends upon the aperture temperature as well as manufacturing defects. This paper presents a way to compensate for element failures in a thinned transmit array by turning on elements that were thinned in order to replace the failed elements. Both uniform and nonuniform failures are considered.
Authors
- Eric Loew
- William Blake (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9447-1361)
- Randy L. Haupt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3887-606X)
Institutions
- NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (US)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2024-10-15
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/array58370.2024.10880370
- Primary Topic
- Antenna Design and Optimization
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Science Foundation