| CPC H01Q 21/0075 (2013.01) [H01Q 5/28 (2015.01); H01Q 21/26 (2013.01)] | 1 Claim |

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1. An array antenna with an orthogonal feeding structure, comprising:
sixteen antenna elements (1), each of which is configured such that: a radiator has four identical thin copper petals printed on a Rogers RT/Duroid 5880 tablet with a thickness of 0.508 mm; a high-performance balun made of four Rogers 4350B stem boards with a thickness of 0.508 mm;
the orthogonal feeding structure (2) connects a stripline of a feeding network (3) to a microstrip line of the high-performance balun integrated in each of the antenna elements;
the feeding network (3) is a printed circuit board with the stripline sandwiched between two 0.508 mm-thickness Rogers RT/Duroid 5880 tablets, the feeding network has two ground planes that are a conducting top and a bottom layers, inner striplines of the feeding network form two power dividers/combiners with a center symmetry axis, including sixteen inputs and an output.
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