SLL Suppressed Monopulse Microstrip Antenna Design

It is aimed to design a X-band monopulse microstrip antenna array that can be used almost in all modern tracking radars and having superior properties in angle detection and angular accuracy than the classical ones. In order to create a monopulse antenna array, a rectangular microstrip antenna is designed and 16 of it gathered together using the nonlinear central feeding to suppress the side lobe level (SLL) of the antenna. The monopulse antenna is created by the combining 4 of these 4x4 array antennas with a microstrip comparator designed using four branch line coupler. Good agreement is noted between the simulation and measurement results.