Graduate Courses
ECE 5973: Phased Array Antenna
Semester: Fall
Graduate course will provide the basic knowledge and the most important design trade-offs of phased array antennas that are used for civil and military applications. This class will put emphasis on the critical evaluation of the performance of phased array antenna systems, especially for atmospheric applications. Factors that are important for high-performance radar and communication systems, such as scanning performance, phased array antenna architectures, feed-networks, mutual coupling, infinite and finite active arrays, T/R modules and technologies, multibeam arrays, adaptive arrays and sidelobe cancellers, will be introduced.


Phased Array Antenna
Research & Development Group (PAARD)
Advanced Radar Research Center
3190 Monitor Ave.
Norman OK 73019
PAARD Publications (2014-Present)
Journal Papers Publised
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Journal Papers Under Review
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Journal Papers in preparation
Per-Review Conference Papers Published
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Umeyama, Arturo, Fulton, Caleb, and Salazar, Jorge L (2020). "Simulation and Analysis of aUnmanned-Aerial-Vehicle-basedAntenna Characterization Method." Paper in review process (submitted Jan. 24th. 2020, Access-2020-05264) in IEEE Open Access.
Access-2020-05264 JP
Rodrigo Lebron, Pei-Sang Tsai, Jonathan M. Emmett, Caleb Fulton, and Jorge L. Salazar-Cerreno (2020). "Validation and Testing of Initial andIn-situ Mutual Coupling Base Calibration of a Dual-polarized Active Phased ArrayAntenna." Paper in review process (submitted Jan. 10th. 2020, ID Access-2020-02230) in IEEE Open Access.
Access-2020-02230 JP
Aboserwal, Nafati, Ccoillo-Ramos, Nim, Qamar, Zeeshan, and Salazar, Jorge L. (2020). "An Accurate Analytical Model to Calculate the Impedance Bandwidth of a Proximity Coupled Microstrip Patch Antenna (PC-MSPA)." Paper in review process (submitted Dec. 31st. 2019, Access-2019-66071) in IEEE Open Access.
Access-2019-66071 JP
C. Fulton, R. Palmer, M. Yeary, J. Salazar, H. Sigmarsson, M. Weber, A. Hedden, “Horus: A Testbed for Fully Digital Phased Array Radars”, Microwave Journal, invited paper, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 20-36, January 2020. JP
Z. Qamar, N. Aboserwal and J. L. Salazar-Cerreno, "An Accurate Method for Designing, Characterizing and Testing a Multi-layer Radome for mm-Wave Applications," in IEEE Access.
doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2970544 JP
J. L. Salazar-Cerreno, Z. Qamar, S. Saeedi, B. Weng and H. S. Sigmarsson (2019), "Frequency Agile Microstrip Patch Antenna Using an Anisotropic Artificial Dielectric Layer (AADL): Modeling and Design," in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 6398-6406, 2020.
doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2962160 JP
Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter, Robert Dean Palmer, David Joseph Bodine, Cameron R Homeyer, Tian-You Yu, Michael I Biggerstaff, Howard B Bluestein, Steven M Cavallo, Boon Leng Cheong, Youngsun Jung, Jay McDaniel, Naoko Sakaeda, Jorge Salazar-Cerreno, Xuguang Wang, Mark B Yeary, Jonathan J Gourley, Kenneth Howard, Walter Arthur Petersen, Simone Tanelli, Audrey Martini, Nicolas Viltard (2019, December). "Stratospheric Radar Observations of Convection and Precipitation". In AGU Fall Meeting 2019. AGU. CP
J. Ortiz, Jorge L. Salazar, J. Diaz, R. Lebron, N. Aboserwal, Sanghoon Sim, Laurence Jeon, and Robert D. Palmer. "A Tileable, Low-Profile, Low-Cost X-Band Dual-polarized Active Array Unit Cell for Atmospheric Phased Array Radars (PAR)" IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Manuscript accepted (in printing process), October, 2019. JP
Chilson, P.B.; Bell, T.M.; Brewster, K.A.; Britto Hupsel de Azevedo, G.; Carr, F.H.; Carson, K.; Doyle, W.; Fiebrich, C.A.; Greene, B.R.; Grimsley, J.L.; Kanneganti, S.T.; Martin, J.; Moore, A.; Palmer, R.D.; Pillar-Little, E.A.; Salazar-Cerreno, J.L.; Segales, A.R.; Weber, M.E.; Yeary, M.; Droegemeier, K.K. Moving towards a Network of Autonomous UAS Atmospheric Profiling Stations for Observations in the Earth’s Lower Atmosphere: The 3D Mesonet Concept. Sensors 2019, 19, 2720.
https://doi.org/10.3390/s19122720 JP
A. Y. Umeyama, J. L. Salazar-Cerreño, B. M. Wolf and C. J. Fulton, "Recent Development in UAV-based Antenna Pattern Characterization for Weather Radars," 2019 IEEE Conference on Antenna Measurements & Applications (CAMA), Kuta, Bali, Indonesia, 2019, pp. 199-202.
doi: 10.1109/CAMA47423.2019.8959698 CP
Jose D. Dıaz, Student Member, IEEE, Nafati Aboserwal, Member, IEEE, John T. Logan, Member, IEEE, Rick W. Kindt, Member, IEEE, Jorge L. Salazar, Senior Member. "Ultra-Low Cross Polarization Microstrip Patch Antennas for Phased Arrays" . In 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems and Technology (PAST 2019). October 15 – 18, 2019, Waltham, MA USA. CP
Javier A. Ortiz, Student Member, IEEE, Nafati Aboserwal, Member, IEEE and Jorge L. Salazar, Senior Member, IEEE. (2019). "A New Analytical Model Based on Diffraction Theory for Predicting Cross-polar Patterns of Antenna Elements in a Finite Phased Array". In 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems and Technology (PAST 2019). October 15 – 18, 2019, Waltham, MA USA. CP
M. Yeary, R. Palmer, C. Fulton, J. Salazar, and H. Sigmarsson, (2019). "Recent Advances on an S-band All-Digital Mobile Phased Array Radar". In 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems and Technology (PAST 2019). October 15 – 18, 2019, Waltham, MA USA. CP
Jorge L. Salazar, Tian-You Yu, Matt McCord, Jose Diaz, Javier A. Ortiz, Caleb Fulton, Mark Yeary, Robert Palmer, Boon-Leng Cheong, Howard Bluestein, James M. Kurdzo, and Bradley Isom, (2019). "An Ultra-Fast Scan C-band Polarimetric Atmospheric Imaging Radar (PAIR)" In 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems and Technology (PAST 2019). October 15 – 18, 2019, Waltham, MA USA. CP
Mancini, A., Lebrón, R. M. & Salazar, J. L. (2019). The impact of a wet S-band radome on dual-polarized phased-array radar system performance. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 67(1), 207–220.
doi:10.1109/TAP.2018.2876733 JP
Díaz, J. D., Salazar-Cerreno, J. L., Ortiz, J. A., Aboserwal, N. A., Lebrón, R. M., Fulton, C. & Palmer, R. D. (2018). A cross-stacked radiating antenna with enhanced scanning performance for digital beamforming multifunction phased-array radars. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 66(10), 5258–5267.
doi:10.1109/TAP.2018.2862252 JP
Aboserwal, N. A., Salazar, J. L., Ortiz, J. A., Díaz, J. D., Fulton, C. & Palmer, R. D. (2018). Source current polarization impact on the cross-polarization definition of practical antenna elements: Theory and applications. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 66(9), 4391–4406. JP
doi:10.1109/TAP.2018.2845945
Mancini, A., Salazar, J. L., Lebrón, R. M. & Cheong, B. L. (2018a). A novel instrument for real-time measurement of attenuation of weather radar radome including its outer surface. Part I: The concept. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 35(5), 953–973.
doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-17-0083.1. eprint: https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-17-0083.1 JP
Mancini, A., Salazar, J. L., Lebrón, R. M. & Cheong, B. L. (2018b). A novel instrument for real-time measurement of attenuation of weather radar radome including its outer surface. Part II: Applications. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 35(5), 975–991.
doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-17-0084.1. eprint: https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-17-0084.1 JP
Fulton, C., Salazar, J. L., Zhang, Y., Zhang, G., Kelly, R., Meier, J., . . . Palmer, R. D. (2017). Cylindrical polarimetric phased array radar: Beamforming and calibration for weather applications. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 55(5), 2827–2841.
doi:10.1109/TGRS.2017.2655023 JP
Salazar-Cerreño, J. L., Chandrasekar, V., Trabal, J. M., Siquera, P., Medina, R., Knapp, E. & McLaughlin, D. J. (2014). A drop size distribution (dsd)-based model for evaluating the performance of wet radomes for dual-polarized radars. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 31(11), 2409–2430.
doi:10.1175/JTECH D-13-00208.1. eprint:https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00208.1 JP
Vivekanandan, J., Lee, W.-C., Loew, E., Salazar, J. L., Grubišic, V., Moore, J. & Tsai, P. (2014). The next generation airborne polarimetric doppler weather radar. Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems, 3(2), 111–126.
doi:10.5194/gi-3-111-2014 JP
R. Lebrón, J. D. Dĺaz and J. L. Salazar-Cerreno, "A Procedure to Characterize and Predict Active Phased Array Antenna Radiation Patterns from Planar Near-Field Measurements," 2018 AMTA Proceedings, Williamsburg, VA, 2018, pp. 1-4. CP
Salazar, J. L., Umeyama, A., Duthoit, S. & Fulton, C. (2018). UAS-based antenna pattern measurements and radar characterization. In 2018 ieee conference on antenna measurements applications (CAMA) (pp. 1–4).
doi:10.1109/CAMA.2018.8530587 CP
Duthoit, S., Salazar, J. L., Doyle, W., Segales, A.,Wolf, B., Fulton, C. & Chilson, P. (2017a). A new approach for in-situ antenna characterization, radome inspection and radar calibration, using an unmanned aircraft system (UAS). In 2017 IEEE Radar Conference (pp. 0669–0674).
doi:10.1109/RADAR.2017.7944287 CP
Mancini, A., Salazar, J. L., Lebrón, R. M. & Cheong, B. L. (2017). A novel techique to characterize the effect of rain over a radome for radar applications. In 2017 IEEE Radar Conference (pp. 0470–0475).
doi:10.1109/RADAR.2017.7944249 CP
Brian R Greene, Phillip Bruce Chilson, Jorge Salazar-Cerreno, Simon Duthoit, Bill Doyle, Brent Wolf, Antonio Segales, Christopher A Fiebrich, Sean Waugh, Sherman Fredrickson, Steven Oncley, Laura Tudor, Steven Semmer, (2017). " Development of Rotary-Wing UAS for Use in Atmospheric Sensing of Near-Storm Environments" AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2017. CP
Aboserwal, N. A., Salazar, J. L. & Fulton, C. (2016). Current polarization impact on cross-polarization definitions for practical antenna elements. In 2016 IEEE international symposium on phased array systems and technology (PAST 2016) (pp. 1–6)
doi:10.1109/ARRAY.2016.7832550 CP
Díaz, J. D., Salazar, J. L., Ortiz, J. A., Fulton, C., Aboserwal, N., Kelley, R. & Palmer, R. (2016). A dual-polarized cross-stacked patch antenna with wide-angle and low cross-polarization for fully digital multifunction phased array radars. In 2016 ieee international symposium on phased array systems and technology (PAST 2016) (pp. 1–4).
doi:10.1109/ARRAY.2016.7832546 CP (First place Student Paper Contest)
Lebrón, R. M., Salazar, J. L., Fulton, C., Duthoit, S., Schmidt, D. & Palmer, R. (2016). A novel near-field robotic scanner for surface, rf and thermal characterization of millimeter-wave active phased array antenna. In 2016 ieee international symposium on phased array systems and technology (PAST 2016) (pp. 1–6).
doi:10.1109/ARRAY.2016.7832657 CP (Finalist in Student Paper Contest)
Ortiz, J. A., Díaz, J., Aboserwal, N., Salazar, J. L., Jeon, L., Sim, S. & Chun, J. (2016). Ultra-compact universal polarization x-band unit cell for high-performance active phased array radar. In 2016 ieee international symposium on phased array systems and technology (PAST 2016) (pp. 1–5).
doi:10.1109/ARRAY.2016.7832592 CP (Finalist in Student Paper Contest)
Salazar, J. L., Aboserwal, N., Díaz, J. D., Ortiz, J. A. & Fulton, C. (2016). Edge diffractions impact on the cross polarization performance of active phased array antennas. In 2016 ieee international symposium on phased array systems and technology (PAST 2016) (pp. 1–5).
doi:10.1109/ARRAY.2016.7832571 CP
Salazar, J. L., Medina, R. H. & Loew, E. (2015a). T/r modules for active phased array radars. In 2015 ieee radar conference (Radarcon) (pp. 1125–1133).
doi:10.1109/RADAR.2015.7131163 CP
Salazar, J. L., Medina, R. H. & Loew, E. (2015b). Transmit/receive (t/r) modules architectures for dual-polarized weather phased array radars. In 2015 ieee mtt-s international microwave symposium
(pp. 1–4).
doi:10.1109/MWSYM.2015.7167077 CP
Gál, T., Salazar-Cerreno, J. L., Farquharson, G. & Kuga, Y. (2014a). Design of a c-band conformal series-fed phased-array antenna for airborne synthetic aperture radar. In 2014 USNC-URSI radio science meeting (joint with APS symposium) (pp. 97–97).
doi:10.1109/USNC-URSI.2014.6955479. CP
Salazar, J. L., Loew, E., Tsai, P., Vivekanandan, J., Lee, W. C. & Chandrasekar, V. (2013). Design trade-offs for airborne phased array radar for atmospheric research. In 2013 ieee international symposium on phased array systems and technology (PAST2013) (pp. 371–378).
doi:10.1109/ARRAY.2013.6731857 CP
Medina, R. H., Salazar, J. L., Knapp, E. J. & McLaughlin, D. J. (2012a). Calibration and validation
of the casa phased array antenna. In 2012 42nd european microwave conference (pp. 940–943).
doi:10.23919/EuMC.2012.6459314.
Medina, R. H., Salazar, J. L., Knapp, E. J. & McLaughlin, D. J. (2012b). Calibration and validation
of the casa phased array antenna. In 2012 9th european radar conference (pp. 614–617).
Salazar, J. L., Medina, R. H., Knapp, E. J. & McLaughlin, D. J. (2012a). Low cost x-band dual
polarization phased array antenna: Scanning performance. In 2012 42nd european microwave
conference (pp. 751–754).
doi:10.23919/EuMC.2012.6459126
Salazar, J. L., Medina, R. H., Knapp, E. J. & McLaughlin, D. J. (2012b). Low cost x-band dual
polarization phased array antenna: Scanning performance. In 2012 42nd european microwave
conference (pp. 751–754).
doi:10.23919/EuMC.2012.6459126
Salazar, J. L., Siquiera, P., Trabal, J., Knapp, E. J. & McLaughlin, D. J. (2012a). Performance of
the wet radomes for phased-array weather radars: Evaluation and applications. In 2012 9th
european radar conference (pp. 341–344).
Salazar, J. L., Siquiera, P., Trabal, J., Knapp, E. J. & McLaughlin, D. J. (2012b). A concept for
evaluating the performance of wet radomes for phased-array weather radars. In 2012 ieee
international geoscience and remote sensing symposium (pp. 6903–6906).
doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352576
Frasier, S. J., Venkatesh, V., Orzel, K., Hartley, T., Salazar, J., Medina, R., . . . Tanamachi, R.
(2011). X- and w-band mobile doppler radar observations from vortex2 and current
developments. In 2011 ieee radarcon (radar) (pp. 774–777).
doi:10.1109/RADAR.2011.5960642
Orzel, K., Venkatesh, V., Palumbo, R. A., Medina, R., Salazar, J., Krishnamurthy, A., . . .
Frasier, S. J. (2011). Mobile x-band dual polarization phased array radar : System requirements
and development.
Salazar, J. L., Knapp, E. J. & McLaughlin, D. J. (2010). Dual-polarization performance of the
phase-tilt antenna array in a casa dense network radar. In 2010 ieee international geoscience and
remote sensing symposium (pp. 3470–3473).
doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5650310
Hopf, A. P., Salazar, J. L., Medina, R., Venkatesh, V., Knapp, E. J., Frasier, S. J. &
McLaughlin, D. J. (2009). Casa phased array radar system description, simulation and products. In
2009 ieee international geoscience and remote sensing symposium (Vol. 2, pp. II-968-II-971).
doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5418262
Salazar, J. L., Hopf, A., Contreras, R. F., Philips, B., Knapp, E. J., McLaughlin, D., . . .
Brewster, K. (2009a). Coverage comparison of short range radar networks vs. conventional
weather radars: Case study in the northwestern united states. In 2009 ieee international geoscience
and remote sensing symposium (Vol. 2, pp. II-964-II-967).
doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5418261
Salazar, J. L., Hopf, A., Contreras, R. F., Philips, B., Knapp, E. J., McLaughlin, D., . . .
Brewster, K. (2009b). Coverage comparison of short range radar networks vs. conventional
weather radars: Case study in the northwestern united states. In 2009 ieee international geoscience
and remote sensing symposium (Vol. 2, pp. II-964-II-967).
doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5418261
Salazar, J. L., Medina, R., Knapp, E. J. & McLaughlin, D. J. (2008). Phase-tilt array antenna design
for dense distributed radar networks for weather sensing. In Igarss 2008 - 2008 ieee international
geoscience and remote sensing symposium (Vol. 5, pp. 318–321).
doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4780092
Salazar, J. L., Knapp, E. A. & McLaughlin, D. W. (2007). Antenna design trade-offs for dense
distributed radar network for weather sensing.
Salazar-Cerreno, J. & Rodriguez-Solis, R. A. (2003). Broadband log-periodic normal mode helical
antenna. In Ieee antennas and propagation society international symposium. digest. held in conjunction
with: Usnc/cnc/ursi north american radio sci. meeting (cat. no.03ch37450) (Vol. 1, 249–252 vol.1).
doi:10.1109/APS.2003.1217445