Active and Passive Components for Broadband Transmit Phased Arrays: Broadband Transmit Front-End Components

Phased-array antennas have penetrated a large application space, and in this article, we present some of the critical components for phased-array front ends, as described in Figure 1. We focus on an octave-bandwidth 6- to 12-GHz transmit implementation, but the methodology and component designs are scalable in frequency. Over the past few decades, phased-arra...