An Accurate and Compact High Power Monocycle Pulse Transmitter for Microwave Ultra-Wideband Radar Sensors with an enhanced SRD model: Applications for Distance Measurement for lossy materials

In This paper, a high power sub-nanosecond pulse transmitter for Ultra-wideband radar sensor is presented. The backbone of the generator is considered as a step recovery diode and unique pulse injected into the circuit, which gives rise to an ultra-wide band Gaussian pulse. The transistor driver and...

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Main Authors: Y. Ahajjam, O. Aghzout, J. M. Catala-Civera, F. Peñaranda-Foix, A. Driouach
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Language:English
Published: Advanced Electromagnetics 2019-09-01
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Online Access:https://aemjournal.org/index.php/AEM/article/view/676
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author Y. Ahajjam
O. Aghzout
J. M. Catala-Civera
F. Peñaranda-Foix
A. Driouach
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O. Aghzout
J. M. Catala-Civera
F. Peñaranda-Foix
A. Driouach
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description In This paper, a high power sub-nanosecond pulse transmitter for Ultra-wideband radar sensor is presented. The backbone of the generator is considered as a step recovery diode and unique pulse injected into the circuit, which gives rise to an ultra-wide band Gaussian pulse. The transistor driver and transmission line pulse forming the whole network are investigated in detail.  The main purpose of this work is to transform a square waveform signal to a driving pulse with the timing and the amplitude parameters required by the SRD to form an output Gaussian pulse, and then into high monocycle pulses. In simulation aspect, an improved output response is required, in this way a new model of step recovery diode has been proposed as a sharpener circuit. This proposition was applied to increase the rise-time of the pulses. For a good range radar, a high amplitude pulse is indispensable, especially when it comes to penetrate thick lossy materiel.  In order to overcome this challenge, a simple technique and useful solution is introduced to increase the output amplitude of the transmitter. This technique consists to connect the outputs of two identical pulse generators in parallel respecting the restrictions required. The pulse transmitter circuit is completely fabricated using micro-strip structure technology characteristics. Waveforms of the generated monocycle pulses over 10V in amplitude with 3.5 % in overshoot have been obtained. Good agreement has been achieved between measurement and simulation results.
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spelling doaj.art-faa5d3c3cb514068a6063313ec946e242022-12-22T03:38:43ZengAdvanced ElectromagneticsAdvanced Electromagnetics2119-02752019-09-0183768210.7716/aem.v8i3.676676An Accurate and Compact High Power Monocycle Pulse Transmitter for Microwave Ultra-Wideband Radar Sensors with an enhanced SRD model: Applications for Distance Measurement for lossy materialsY. Ahajjam0O. Aghzout1J. M. Catala-Civera2F. Peñaranda-Foix3A. Driouach4Universitat Politècnica de ValènciaAbdelmalek Essaadi UniversityUniversitat Politecnica de ValenciaUniversitat Politecnica de ValenciaAbdelmalek Essaadi UniversityIn This paper, a high power sub-nanosecond pulse transmitter for Ultra-wideband radar sensor is presented. The backbone of the generator is considered as a step recovery diode and unique pulse injected into the circuit, which gives rise to an ultra-wide band Gaussian pulse. The transistor driver and transmission line pulse forming the whole network are investigated in detail.  The main purpose of this work is to transform a square waveform signal to a driving pulse with the timing and the amplitude parameters required by the SRD to form an output Gaussian pulse, and then into high monocycle pulses. In simulation aspect, an improved output response is required, in this way a new model of step recovery diode has been proposed as a sharpener circuit. This proposition was applied to increase the rise-time of the pulses. For a good range radar, a high amplitude pulse is indispensable, especially when it comes to penetrate thick lossy materiel.  In order to overcome this challenge, a simple technique and useful solution is introduced to increase the output amplitude of the transmitter. This technique consists to connect the outputs of two identical pulse generators in parallel respecting the restrictions required. The pulse transmitter circuit is completely fabricated using micro-strip structure technology characteristics. Waveforms of the generated monocycle pulses over 10V in amplitude with 3.5 % in overshoot have been obtained. Good agreement has been achieved between measurement and simulation results.https://aemjournal.org/index.php/AEM/article/view/676TransmitterUWBRadarsensorGeneratorSRD
spellingShingle Y. Ahajjam
O. Aghzout
J. M. Catala-Civera
F. Peñaranda-Foix
A. Driouach
An Accurate and Compact High Power Monocycle Pulse Transmitter for Microwave Ultra-Wideband Radar Sensors with an enhanced SRD model: Applications for Distance Measurement for lossy materials
Advanced Electromagnetics
Transmitter
UWB
Radar
sensor
Generator
SRD
title An Accurate and Compact High Power Monocycle Pulse Transmitter for Microwave Ultra-Wideband Radar Sensors with an enhanced SRD model: Applications for Distance Measurement for lossy materials
title_full An Accurate and Compact High Power Monocycle Pulse Transmitter for Microwave Ultra-Wideband Radar Sensors with an enhanced SRD model: Applications for Distance Measurement for lossy materials
title_fullStr An Accurate and Compact High Power Monocycle Pulse Transmitter for Microwave Ultra-Wideband Radar Sensors with an enhanced SRD model: Applications for Distance Measurement for lossy materials
title_full_unstemmed An Accurate and Compact High Power Monocycle Pulse Transmitter for Microwave Ultra-Wideband Radar Sensors with an enhanced SRD model: Applications for Distance Measurement for lossy materials
title_short An Accurate and Compact High Power Monocycle Pulse Transmitter for Microwave Ultra-Wideband Radar Sensors with an enhanced SRD model: Applications for Distance Measurement for lossy materials
title_sort accurate and compact high power monocycle pulse transmitter for microwave ultra wideband radar sensors with an enhanced srd model applications for distance measurement for lossy materials
topic Transmitter
UWB
Radar
sensor
Generator
SRD
url https://aemjournal.org/index.php/AEM/article/view/676
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