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CARLO BENCIVENNI
PHD DEFENSE
31st May 2017 – Room EB, floor 4, Hörsalvägen 11, Chalmers
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PROJECT
CHASE’s Next Generation Array Antennas
Wideband wide-scan arrays Advanced cost-effective arrays
C. Kolitsidas, L. Jonsson C. Bencivenni, M. Ivashina, R. Maaskant
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PROJECT
CHASE’s Next Generation Array Antennas
Wideband wide-scan arrays Advanced cost-effective arrays
C. Kolitsidas, L. Jonsson C. Bencivenni, M. Ivashina, R. Maaskant
• Specifications: 700-4200MHz, ±60° • Specifications: application dependent
• Direction: strongly coupled arrays • Direction: aperiodic arrays
• Main contributions: Theoretical • Main contributions: Synthesis
models; Connected arrays (SCADA); methods; application to phased- and
Metasurface based arrays MIMO-arrays; prototype manufacturing
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REGULAR AND APERIODIC ARRAYS
Regular arrays have simple and mature design; however aperiodic arrays can be superior
Regular
Aperiodic
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• Synthesis approaches:
– Exhaustive search: optimal but often unfeasible
– Global optimization: flexible but slow
– Analytical techniques: fast but limited
• Compressive Sensing
• Density taper
▶ Appropriate method depending on the problem
Illustration of a generic array
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APPLICATION AREAS
SATCOM
Backhaul LoS-MIMO
MU-MIMO
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APPLICATION AREAS
SATCOM
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SATCOM
Reduction of Inclusion of
# control Mutual
(isophoric) Coupling
Reduction of Reconfigurable
# elements design
(multi element) (multi beam)
Array architecture Antennas and electronics
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SATCOM
Reduction of Inclusion of
# control Mutual
(isophoric) Coupling
Step I
Step II
Reduction of Reconfigurable
# elements design
(multi element) (multi beam)
Array architecture Antennas and electronics
Reduction of Inclusion of
# control Mutual
(isophoric) Coupling
Reduction of Reconfigurable
# elements design
(multi element) (multi beam)
Array architecture Antennas and electronics
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SATCOM
RESULTS SINGLEELEMENT:
SINGLE
SINGLE ELEMENT: rrr===1.5λ
ELEMENT: 2λ
1λ
Paper 1,2
Starting from Compressive Sensing, we expanded the synthesis approach
Reduction of Inclusion of
# control Mutual
(isophoric) Coupling
Reduction of Reconfigurable
# elements design
(multi element) (multi beam)
Array architecture Antennas and electronics
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SATCOM
Reduction of Inclusion of
# control Mutual
(isophoric) Coupling
Reduction of Reconfigurable
# elements design
(multi element) (multi beam)
Array architecture Antennas and electronics
SATCOM
Backhaul LoS-MIMO
MU-MIMO
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APPLICATION AREAS
Backhaul
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Backhaul
E-plane
H-plane
– Isophoric dense array (a) (b)
Illustration of the aperiodic column layout
Figure 1: Comparison between: (a) a regular, and; (b) an aperiodic isopho
• Synthesis method: hybrid Compressive Sensing/density tapered
waveguide antenna array. based
Note that the aperiodic array has a differ
• Activity of visiting reseacher Dr. Lei spacing dk and power Pk per waveguide if an identical power per-slot P
desired.
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Backhaul
RESULTS
Simulated and measured results of the manufactured antenna
• Reflection coefficient: 12% bandwidth for S11<10dB
• Radiation pattern: ETSI class-II in all planes
• Gain: simulated 28.5dBi (>80%), measured -2dB from plating
▶ Performance as predicted Manufactured antenna
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APPLICATION AREAS
SATCOM
Backhaul LoS-MIMO
MU-MIMO
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APPLICATION AREAS
LoS-MIMO
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LoS-MIMO
RESULTS Paper 4
4. Results
Regular 4x4 symmetric link, f=80GHz, d=100λ, SNR=30dB
n=1 n=1
n=2
N=4 n=2
n=3
A
n=3
n=3*
n=4 n=4
RESULTS Paper 4
Aperiodic and aperiodic switched arrays can increase the minimum capacity
• Synthesis method: exhaustive search
4. Results
Regular 4x4 symmetric link, f=80GHz, d=100λ, SNR=30dB Aperiodic
n=1 n=1 n=1 n=1
n=2 n=2
N=4 n=2 N=4 n=2
n=3 n=3
A A
n=3 n=3
n=3* n=3*
RESULTS Paper 4
Aperiodic and aperiodic switched arrays can increase the minimum capacity
• Synthesis method: exhaustive search
4. Results 4. Results
Regular 4x4 symmetric link, f=80GHz, d=100λ, SNR=30dB Aperiodic Switched
n=1 n=1 n=1 n=1 n=1 n=1
A A A
n=3 n=3 n=3
n=3* n=3* n=3*
SATCOM
Backhaul LoS-MIMO
MU-MIMO
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APPLICATION AREAS
MU-MIMO
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MU-MIMO
RESULTS Paper 5
The aperiodic array can be optimized for higher performance, in a statistical sense
• Synthesis method: hybrid statistical-density tapered based
Signal quality, SINR System capacity, SR Amplifiers’ efficiency, μ
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