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    EE 3140 and EP 3640: Electric and Magnetic: R/5/2 Antenna Arrays

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    This document discusses phased antenna arrays and how controlling the phase of the signals feeding multiple antennas allows steering and shaping of beams. It explains that with two antennas, differences in phase between the feeding signals can steer a beam, and that adding more antennas enables changing the beam direction and directivity. The document demonstrates how the "array factor" is used to calculate beam properties like width and maximum direction, and that these characteristics can be designed by varying the number of antennas and their phasing.

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    This document discusses phased antenna arrays and how controlling the phase of the signals feeding multiple antennas allows steering and shaping of beams. It explains that with two antennas, differences in phase between the feeding signals can steer a beam, and that adding more antennas enables changing the beam direction and directivity. The document demonstrates how the "array factor" is used to calculate beam properties like width and maximum direction, and that these characteristics can be designed by varying the number of antennas and their phasing.

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    This document discusses phased antenna arrays and how controlling the phase of the signals feeding multiple antennas allows steering and shaping of beams. It explains that with two antennas, differences in phase between the feeding signals can steer a beam, and that adding more antennas enables changing the beam direction and directivity. The document demonstrates how the "array factor" is used to calculate beam properties like width and maximum direction, and that these characteristics can be designed by varying the number of antennas and their phasing.

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    EE 3140 and EP 3640: Electric and Magnetic

    R/5/2 Antenna Arrays


    Today's Agenda
    Antennas
    Phased Arrays
    Two antenna arrays
    Multiple antenna arrays
    Designing beamwidth
    Designing beam angle

    Phased arrays
    What happens when the phases of the currents feeding the antennas are different?

    The differences in phase can be used to steer a beam.

    Can we aim a null at 0 now?

    What happens when you use more than two antennas?

    Phased arrays with multiple antennas

    Phased arrays with multiple antennas allow us to change the direction of the beam and
    change the directivity.

    To begin with we will assume that there are N antennas.


    The antennas will be arranged in a straight line with equal distances d between each
    antenna.
    Assume that as you move from one antenna to the next in the line of antennas that the
    source driving each antenna in the line lags or leads the previous antenna in the line by the
    same amount

    The array factor.

    Examples in Excel

    Can we find the beamwidth of the main lobes?


    Can we find the direction of the maximum?
    Can we choose the direction of the maximum?
    Can we choose the beamwidth of the main beam?

    Since we observed that N controls the beamwidth,


    we can simplify by assuming

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