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A Review of Wideband Wide-Angle Scanning 2-D Phased Array and Its Applications in Satellite Communication

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In this review, research progress on the wideband wide-angle scanning two-dimensional phased arrays is summarized. The importance of the wideband and the wide-angle scanning characteristics for satellite communication is discussed. Issues like grating lobe avoidance, active reflection coefficient suppression and gain fluctuation reduction are emphasized in this review. Besides, techniques to address these issues and methods to realize the wideband wide-angle scanning phased array are reviewed.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61731005, 61331007), the Outstanding Youth Foundation of Sichuan Province (No. 2015JQ0011).

Yan Li was born in May 1992. She received her B.S. degree in electronic information science and technology from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, in 2013. She is now a Ph.D. candidate of UESTC. Her research interests include phased array and implantable antenna. (Email: liyanhannah@hotmail.com)

Shaoqiu Xiao [corresponding author] was born in Sept. 1975. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electromagnetic field and Microwave Technology from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2003. From January 2004 to June 2004, he joined UESTC as an Assistant Professor. From July 2004 to March 2006, he worked for the Wireless Communications Laboratory, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology of Japan (NICT), Singapore, as a Research Fellow with the focus on the planar antenna and smart antenna design and optimization. From July 2006 to June 2010, he worked for UESTC as an Associate Professor and now he is working for UESTC as a Professor. He visited Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, Paris, France, as a Senior Research Scholar in July 2015–August 2015. His current research interests include planar antenna and phased array, computational electromagnetics, microwave passive circuits and time reversal electromagnetics. He has authored/coauthored more than 240 technical journals, conference papers, books and book chapters. (Email: xiaoshaoqiu@ uestc.edu.cn)

Jiajia Guo was born in June 1991. She received her B.S. degree in Electronic Information Science and Technology from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2003. She is now a Ph.D. candidate of UESTC. Her research interests include phased arrays and microwave/millimeter-wave antennas. (Email: guojiajia uestc@163.com)

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Li, Y., Xiao, S. & Guo, J. A Review of Wideband Wide-Angle Scanning 2-D Phased Array and Its Applications in Satellite Communication. J. Commun. Inf. Netw. 3, 21–30 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41650-018-0001-x

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