A Millimeter-Wave Planar Dual-Band Array Antenna Having Individually LHCP and RHCP Radiation Characteristics

Autor: Jian-Nan Wang, Zi-Jun Guo, Zhang-Cheng Hao
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, Vol 3, Pp 768-773 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2637-6431
DOI: 10.1109/OJAP.2022.3188667
Popis: This article demonstrates a planar dual-band array antenna for millimeter-wave applications, which has a left-hand circular polarization and a right-hand circular polarization for two operating bands, respectively. By using aperture-fed stacked-curls, the proposed antenna can attain broad axial ratio (AR) bandwidths in both K- and Ka-bands through a single port. Meanwhile, two stacked-curls are designed to rotate in different directions for achieving orthogonal circular polarizations in two bands, respectively. An $8\times 8$ stacked-curls array antenna is designed and manufactured for verifications. The measured 3 dB AR bandwidths are 11.59% (18.7-21 GHz) in the K-band and 9.93% (26.8-29.6 GHz) in the Ka-band, with reflection coefficient lower than −10 dB. The maximum gain in K- and Ka-bands are 18.59 dB and 18.13 dB, respectively. The proposed antenna can be used for developing compact satellite communication systems.
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