Optimization of Uniform Amplitude Periodic Linear Phased Arrays for Grating Lobe Reduction

The optimization of mode excitation coefficients in linear periodic arrays of multi-mode antenna elements is studied for grating lobe reduction. A novel beamforming architecture is proposed with a new optimization problem based on equi-amplitude element excitations for optimal power efficiency. The capabilities of the proposed synthesis approach...

Enhancing MIMO Array Imaging Quality

For radar imaging, resolution and dynamic range are two critical metrics to measure image quality. MIMO array exploits the spatial diversity of transmitters and receivers to achieve high cross-range resolution with fewer antennas than array-based imaging.<br/> Generally, to make full use of the sparsity, at least the transmit array or the...

Optimization of virtually aperiodic linear sparse arrays

Multi-port multi-mode antenna elements have the ability to move their phase centers and modify their radiation patterns electronically. Arrays composed of such elements are referred to as virtually aperiodic arrays in this paper. Herein, optimization of the mode excitation coefficients in virtually aperiodic sparse linear arrays is proposed,...

Receive/transmit aperture selection for 3D ultrasound imaging with a 2D matrix transducer

Recently, we realized a prototype matrix transducer consisting of 48 rows of 80 elements on top of a tiled set of Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) implementing a row-level control connecting one transmit/receive channel to an arbitrary subset of elements per row. A fully sampled array data acquisition is implemented by a...

Multiple-input Multiple-output Grating Lobe Selection Scheme for Radar Applications

For radar applications, MIMO is often used. The problem is that the amount of available transmit- and receive channels is limited. If each channel is connected to a single antenna element, the effective aperture is small, and therefore the beamwidth is large and the angular resolution is limited. In this thesis, a novel scheme is proposed that...