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A passive antenna is a radiating element composed entirely of passive components. Typically, this means that a passive antenna system is one with at least a passive radiator (antenna element), passive impedance matching, passive balun, passive tuning (capacitive or inductive), and passive interconnect (commonly 50 Ohm or 75 Ohm impedance). A circulator or isolator may ..

There are many applications, some emerging, that require both phase and amplitude error to be minimized. These applications include synthetic aperture radar using antenna arrays, beamforming/MIMO antenna arrays for communications, actively electronically scanned array (AESA) radar, satellite communications, interference friend or foe (IFF) radar, and many other applications. Many of these applications must also place ..

Third generation partnership project (3GPP) is a standards body that is responsible for the major cellular telecommunication standards used to fuel cellular communication around the world. The latest standards release from 3GPP (Release 15) unleashed 5G new radio (NR) non-standalone (NSA) with enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) features that add additional sub-6 GHz frequency bands and ..