Radiation and Scattering Compact Antenna Laboratory

Abstract

In-house applied RF aperture development in the RASCAL laboratory. This interim report contains research centered on leaky wave antenna technology and wideband spiral antenna interferometry. Novel, thin profile, wideband apertures (leaky wave phenomena) have a bright future amongst small vehicle installation. Robust modeling, fabrication, and in-house measurement have led to unique breakthroughs in bandwidth, high efficiency, and end termination schemes. Wideband spiral antenna interferometry has been a new area of direction finding which brings wideband performance to the accuracy of interferometric systems. The validation of this system performance was successfully accomplished via in-house design and measurements.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA459908

Entities

People

  • Joshua Radcliffe

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Angle Of Arrival
  • Antennas
  • Bandwidth
  • Direction Finding
  • Electric Fields
  • Fabrication
  • Frequency
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Radiation
  • Radiation Patterns
  • Scattering
  • Spiral Antennas
  • Wave Phenomena

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Phased Array Antenna Design.
  • Software Engineering