Highly Integrated Dual-Band Dual-Polarized Antenna Tile for SAR Applications

The experimental assessment of a highly integrated dual-band (9.6 and 35.75 GHz) dual-polarized antenna tile designed for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Digital Beam Forming (DBF) satellite applications is presented. Antennas, transitions and down-conversion chips are integrated in the same board fabricated using a customized 15 layer PCB. The experimental assessment proves the validity of the proposed manufacturing and integration approaches, a good agreement between the performance of the individual blocks and of the integrated system has been demonstrated.

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