Low-Cost and High-Efficient W-Band Substrate Integrated Waveguide Antenna Array Made of Printed Circuit Board Process
Autor: | Ke Wu, Stephane Claude, Jens Bornemann, Xiupu Zhang, N. Ghassemi |
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Rok vydání: | 2012 |
Předmět: |
W-band antenna
Materials science Coaxial antenna business.industry Antenna measurement Antenna factor Antenna array Antenna efficiency law.invention Yagi-like antenna Microstrip antenna substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) law Optoelectronics Dipole antenna Electrical and Electronic Engineering Antenna gain business |
Zdroj: | IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 60:1648-1653 |
ISSN: | 1558-2221 0018-926X |
Popis: | A novel class of low-cost, small-footprint and high-gain antenna arrays is presented for W-band applications. A 4 × 4 antenna array is proposed and demonstrated using substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW) technology for the design of its feed network and longitudinal slots in the SIW top metallic surface to drive the array antenna elements. Dielectric cubes of low-permittivity material are placed on top of each 1 × 4 antenna array to increase the gain of the circular patch antenna elements. This new design is compared to a second 4 × 4 antenna array which, instead of dielectric cubes, uses vertically stacked Yagi-like parasitic director elements to increase the gain. Measured impedance bandwidths of the two 4 × 4 antenna arrays are about 7.5 GHz (94.2-101.8 GHz) at 18 ± 1 dB gain level, with radiation patterns and gains of the two arrays remaining nearly constant over this bandwidth. While the fabrication effort of the new array involving dielectric cubes is significantly reduced, its measured radiation efficiency of 81 percent is slightly lower compared to 90 percent of the Yagi-like design. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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