High-efficiency modulation and harmonic beam scanning in time-modulated array

G Ni, C He, Y Gao, J Chen, R Jin - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A general high-efficiency time-modulated module and harmonic beam scanning time-
modulated array (TMA) are proposed and investigated in this article. By introducing the …

An interpolation-based time-modulated antenna array for beam scanning at carrier frequency

H Li, Y Chen, S Yang - IEEE Transactions on Antennas and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The formula of the Fourier series for a periodic function indicates that traditional periodic
time modulation only provides amplitude weighting at the carrier frequency of a time …

Multibeam single-sideband time-modulated arrays

R Maneiro-Catoira, JA Garcia-Naya, JC Bregains… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The design of efficient time-modulated arrays (TMAs) for multi-beam steering purposes must
be based on both a type of periodical sequences that guarantees an adequate windowing of …

An improved modulation module in time-modulated array

G Ni, C He, R Jin - IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An improved modulation module for beam steering in time-modulated array (TMA) is
presented and investigated. The general improved module deploys parallel submodules …

Phase modulation technique for harmonic beamforming in time-modulated arrays

Q Zeng, P Yang, L Yin, H Lin, C Wu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a novel high-efficiency harmonic beamforming technique based on time-
modulated arrays (TMAs) with multistate time modulators is proposed. The typical single …

A noniterative convoluted harmonic beamforming technique in time modulated arrays

U Yesilyurt, I Kanbaz, S Kuzu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this study, the synthesis of the time-modulated array (TMA) has been analyzed in terms of
both the enhancement of the intended harmonic component and the steering capability of …

Efficiency improvement of time modulated array with reconfigurable power divider/combiner

J Chen, X Liang, C He, H Fan, W Zhu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Time modulated array (TMA) suffers from relatively low efficiencies due to the power
absorption in switches during off state. In this paper, we present the design of a novel TMA …

Low sideband radiation beam scanning at carrier frequency for time-modulated array by non-uniform period modulation

G Ni, C He, J Chen, Y Liu, R Jin - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel beam scanning method utilizing the carrier frequency component for time-
modulated array (TMA) is proposed and a significant algorithm based on the non-uniform …

Harmonic beamforming in antenna array with time-modulated amplitude-phase weighting technique

H Li, Y Chen, S Yang - IEEE Transactions on Antennas and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a novel module named time-modulated amplitude-phase weighting with
multiple branches (TMAPW-MB) is proposed to realize harmonic beamforming. The …

Time-modulated arrays: A four-dimensional antenna array controlled by switches

C He, L Wang, J Chen, R Jin - Journal of Communications and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rapid development of modern electronic technologies, antenna arrays typically
operate in very complex electromagnetic environments. However, owing to the various …