In this paper, we present a 7.9-9.7 GHz on-chip radar receiver front-end intended for a digital beamforming X-band smart skin phased array antenna. This agile single-chip receiver front-end could potentially enable a significant size and cost reduction of the microwave receiver modules in such an adaptive frequency hopping radar system. Measured results show a close to adequate performance.
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Microwave Symposium Digest, 2002 IEEE MTT-S International
(Volume:3
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Date of Conference: 2-7 June 2002