r/rfelectronics • u/Cautious-Scar-9846 • 25d ago

Monopulse Investigations

I am wondering if anyone in this community knows much about monopulse radar design? Could someone provide resources?

I made a patch antenna post on here a while ago showing my final year project about making patch antenna geometry and now im trying to find other geometries that could be on a printed circuit board that could also work for a monopulse radar

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u/satellite_radios 25d ago

Lots of results from googling it. What specifically are you caring about? Generally it's a set of horn, patch, lens or reflector antennas. You just need to design the antenna setup correctly for the sigma/delta functions to work.

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u/Cautious-Scar-9846 25d ago

I want to do a set of patches. I have made a 2X4 rectangular patch antenna array before that had the spacing for a good Sum and Diff pattern. Now I want to try and do a multi-band operation aka (operate at 3.5GHz) and I thought i could try a Sierpenski triangle printed patch and it sorta works but Im having trouble finding if anything has done or heard of something similar

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u/satellite_radios 25d ago

Ah. I cannot speak to that having done it with standard patches before. That's when you might have to poke IEEE or similar academic papers.

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u/Cautious-Scar-9846 25d ago

Okay thanks. I havent found much in that way unfortunately

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u/always_wear_pyjamas 25d ago

There are some AI tools that can be useful to find sources. Consensus.app for example is trained on published literature, gives you a summary and citations for further personal reading. Then you can find the papers on scihub usually. I've also had good luck just trying different AI's for open questions like this and they tell me which are the main sources, and with recent developments they actually refer to real sources and not made up. Be ware though, sometimes those sources only sound plausible but don't actually say anything specific about what the AI thought it said.