Active integrated antenna with direct conversion receiver design

For a microwave engineer, “An active antenna is an activemicrowave circuit in which the output or input port is free spaceinstead of a conventional 50 interface.” For an antenna designer,“Active antenna is an antenna that possesses built-in signal-andwave-processing capabilities such as mixing and a...

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Main Authors: Jamaluddin, Mohd. Haizal, Baharom, Amerudin
Format: Book Section
Published: Penerbit UTM 2007
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Summary:For a microwave engineer, “An active antenna is an activemicrowave circuit in which the output or input port is free spaceinstead of a conventional 50 interface.” For an antenna designer,“Active antenna is an antenna that possesses built-in signal-andwave-processing capabilities such as mixing and amplification.” Insimple words an active integrated antenna can provide certaincircuit functions such as resonance, filtering, and duplexing, inaddition to its original role as a radiating element.