Compact Hologram Antenna for Kill Vehicle

A new electronically steerable antenna design is proposed. It features flexible hologram beam forming, an MMIC aperture, and a light weight, low profile, sturdy design, reciprocal operation (transmission and receiving), low power consumption, and cost effective manufacture and operation. In Phase I of the project WaveBand Corporation proposes to develop a conceptual design, accommodated for Kill Vehicle applications, and make modeling and simulations to predict antenna performance and estimate its size, weight and power requirements. The use of semiconductor devices as wavefront control elements for achieving pixelized reconfigurable aperture and quasi-optical hologram beamforming, eliminating the traditional phase shifters, provides revolutionary and attractive solutions to technical challenges. The pixelized antenna element can be implemented into millimeter-wave monolithic integrated circuits (MMIC) and eventually integrated monolithically with transmit-and-receive components which can be very compact, light weight, radiation-hard, and capable of very high-G for kill vehicle applications.