%0 Conference Proceedings %T Differential Front-End Design for Mid-Frequency Aperture Array Design %+ Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay (USN) %+ University of Manchester %A Zhang, Yongwei %A El-Makadema, Ahmed %A Harison, Sangitiana %A Bosse, Stéphane %A Brown, Anthony %A Yang, Ming %Z Conférence %< avec comité de lecture %B 17th International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA) / 5th IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (IEEE-APWC) %C Torino, Italy %3 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2015 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ELECTROMAGNETICS IN ADVANCED APPLICATIONS (ICEAA) %P 291-292 %8 2015-09-07 %D 2015 %R 10.1109/ICEAA.2015.7297120 %Z Sciences of the Universe [physics]Conference papers %X Differential front-end design presents a good prospect to be integrated with differential beamformer inputs without a transformer needed otherwise for a single-ended front-end design. A front-end solution with a complete differential configuration is presented. The potential advantages of this design are: planar antenna elements mean a lower cost; differential LNAs in close proximity to the antenna elements reducing feedline loss hence potentially a low noise figure and a less power consumption without an active balun needed in the RF signal chain. %G English %L insu-01493374 %U https://insu.hal.science/insu-01493374 %~ OBSPM %~ INSU %~ CNRS %~ UNIV-ORLEANS %~ USN %~ OSUC %~ PSL %~ OBSPM-PSL