Ka 波段EBG 天线阵列的仿真与分析

电磁带隙(EBG)天线是一种可以提高天线辐射口径及增益的新型天线,本文首先以FSS 结构作为EBG 反射面,角 锥喇叭作为辐射源,设计了一种可以工作在29.7-30.2GHz,最大增益为23dB 的EBG 天线;其次,研究了7 个喇叭构成六 边形阵列时的阵列特性;最后,将EBG 天线用作单反射面多波束天线的馈源研究了波束的覆盖特性,结果表明,当波束 大小为1.12°时,多波束天线的峰值增益为44.5dB,边缘交叠电平为40.4dB,载干比大于12dB。证明了这种EBG 天线 具有良好的工作性能,为将来小型化反射面多波束天线的设计提供了一种新的思路。     

Design and implementation of electromagnetic band‐gap embedded antenna for vehicle‐to‐everything communications in vehicular systems

We proposed a novel electromagnetic band‐gap (EBG) cell‐embedded antenna structure for reducing the interference that radiates at the antenna edge in wireless access in vehicular environment (WAVE) communication systems for vehicle‐to‐everything communications. To suppress the radiation of surface waves from the ground plane and vehicle, EBG cells were inserted between micropatch arrays. A simulation was also performed to determine the optimum EBG cell structure located above the ground plane in a conformal linear microstrip patch array antenna. The characteristics such as return loss, peak gain, and radiation patterns obtained using the fabricated EBG cell‐embedded antenna were superior to those obtained without the EBG cells. A return loss of 35.14 dB, peak gain of 10.15 dBi at 80°, and improvement of 2.037 dB max at the field of view in the radiation beam patterns were obtained using the proposed WAVE antenna.     

Low-Profile Equiangular Spiral Antenna Backed by an EBG Reflector

The bi-directional beam from an equiangular spiral antenna (EAS) is changed to a unidirectional beam using an electromagnetic band gap (EBG) reflector. The antenna height, measured from the upper surface of the EBG reflector to the spiral arms, is chosen to be extremely small to realize a low-profile antenna: 0.07 wavelength at the lowest analysis frequency of 3 GHz. The analysis shows that the EAS backed by the EBG reflector does not reproduce the inherent wideband axial ratio characteristic observed when the EAS is isolated in free space. The deterioration in the axial ratio is examined by decomposing the total radiation field into two field components: one component from the equiangular spiral and the other from the EBG reflector. The examination reveals that the amplitudes and phases of these two field components do not satisfy the constructive relationship necessary for circularly polarized radiation. Based on this finding, next, the EBG reflector is modified by gradually removing the patch elements from the center region of the reflector, thereby satisfying the required constructive relationship between the two field components. This equiangular spiral with a modified EBG reflector shows wideband characteristics with respect to the axial ratio, input impedance and gain within the design frequency band (4–9 GHz). Note that, for comparison, the antenna characteristics for an EAS isolated in free space and an EAS backed by a perfect electric conductor are also presented.      

Novel Design of a High-gain and Wideband Fabry-Pérot Cavity Antenna Using a Tapered AMC Substrate

A high-gain and wideband electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) resonator antenna with a tapered artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) ground plane is presented. The proposed EBG resonator antenna is comprised of a frequency selective surface (FSS) superstrate with a strip dipole array and an AMC ground plane with tapered rectangular patches. The realized gain and the bandwidth of the antenna can be improved simultaneously by using the tapered AMC where the phase difference of the reflected waves from the patches with different length is within 180° and the destructive interference among them can be considerably reduced. The maximum gain is increased about 2∼3 dB and the bandwidth is improved about 2.5 times compared to when the uniform AMC is used.     

Compact dual-band patch antenna using spiral shaped electromagnetic bandgap structures for high speed wireless networks

This paper presents a compact dual-band slot antenna for 1.8/2.4 GHz WLAN applications using electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) structures. The slotted rectangular radiating element is surrounded by a spiral-like EBG. The antenna size is very compact (60 mm × 60 mm × 3.27 mm), and can be integrated easily with other RF front-end circuits. The working frequency of the patch antenna falls inside the EBG which will lead to the suppression of the surface waves. It is demonstrated that the proposed antenna can completely cover the required bandwidths of IEEE 802.11b/g and IEEE 802.11a with satisfactory radiation characteristics. The simulation is carried out using the finite integration time domain method (FITD) analysis technique. The EM simulated return loss, gain, directivity, radiation pattern, antenna efficiency and VSWR are presented for proposed antenna array. Good agreement is achieved between the simulated and measured results.     

Radiation performance improvement of wideband microstrip antenna array using wideband AMC structure

In this paper, the radiation performance of an antenna array is improved by designing a new wideband artificial magnetic conductor (AMC). The proposed AMC surface operates at the frequency of 3 GHz with ±90^° reflection phase bandwidth of 22%. In order to identify the key design parameters of the AMC structure, a parametric study is performed. To improve the radiation performance of the antenna array, an AMC reflector is developed through utilizing an array of 2 × 8 periodic patches of AMC unit cells. By this technique, the front to back ratio of the designed antenna array is enhanced about 16.27 dB. It is concluded that tuning of the AMC dimensions for controlling the reflection coefficient at each port of antenna array during beam steering is necessary. Because of the using of the AMC surfaces as a reflector instead of conventional PEC surfaces, size reduction of the antenna array in the order of 20% is achieved. In this study, a circuit model for single element of the antenna array with considering AMC loading effect is introduced, which predicts the bandwidth behaviour of the proposed antenna. The final designed antenna array exhibits low level of cross polarization making it well‐suited for tracking radars and electronic warfare applications. The proposed antenna with the AMC reflector is fabricated and measured. The measured ?10 dB impedance bandwidth and peak gain of the proposed antenna is 20% (2.7‐3.25 GHz) and 13.4 dBi, respectively, which are compatible with the simulation results.     

Ultrawideband Hybrid EBG/Ferrite Ground Plane for Low-Profile Array Antennas

The design and analysis of an ultrawideband and low-profile hybrid electromagnetic band-gap (EBG)/ferrite ground plane is presented for implementation with antenna systems in airborne foliage penetrating radar and EW applications. The hybrid EBG/ferrite ground plane consists of an EBG structure with a ferrite slab placed on top of the structure's perfect electric conductor (PEC) ground plane. Reflectivity and phase analyses show that the hybrid EBG/ferrite ground plane offers ultrawideband operation beginning in the 100s of MHz with one design version offering an operational bandwidth exceeding 22:1 starting at 170 MHz. Additionally, analysis of the hybrid ground plane implemented with dipole antennas verifies that the hybrid ground plane effectively produces uni-directional radiation for bi-directional radiating antennas. The designed hybrid ground plane is also simulated with Raytheon's long slot array antenna and the obtained results further verify its ultrawideband performance     

Contribution of non-uniform EBG antenna arrays to the enhancement of MIMO channel capacity

The work proposes novel multiband and of low profile antenna arrays with hybrid type elements, for the realization of a MIMO (Multiple Input–Multiple Output) wireless communication system with great capacity. Each element is composed of a linear dipole integrated with a non-uniform Electromagnetic Band Gap (EBG) lattice. This EBG type, influences the system by two ways, the strong reduction of the Mutual Coupling (MC) among the closely positioned array's elements and the high radiation gain values of each element, inside wide space areas. Both of them make the antenna element capable of enhancing the MIMO channel capacity. It was ascertained by the results which were received taking into account globally, the MC and the radiation patterns of the antenna elements. The Spatial Channel Model (SCM) scenario for Urban Micro and Urban Macro environments was applied and the capacity calculation was made in one step which incorporates both the channel and the antenna characteristics. Results for the capacity at all three bands of operation are presented, for 10 dB SNR level, along with respective ones received from dipole arrays in front of Perfect Electric Conductor (PEC). The comparison shows clearly the superiority of the proposed hybrid type array and its robust performance in wireless propagation scenarios.     

A Novel Compact Spiral Electromagnetic Band-Gap (EBG) Structure

A novel compact electromagnetic band-gap (EBG) structure in a spiral shape is presented and investigated. This structure significantly enlarges the capacitance between neighboring elements. The simulations and experimental results have proved that the size of the spiral structure is only 30.9% of the conventional EBG structure. Two applications have been shown, including patch antenna with the spiral EBG structure and a double-element microstrip antenna array with low mutual coupling. The measured results show that a gain improvement over 3 dB and a significant reduction of cross polarization in H-plane are obtained. A 6 dB reduction of mutual coupling is achieved in a double-element EBG microstrip antenna array.     

1-D Scanning Arrays on Dense Dielectrics Using PCS-EBG Technology

We show how the design of integrated arrays can significantly benefit from planar circularly symmetric (PCS) electromagnetic band gap (EBG) structures. Using this technology, a phased array that scans up to 40deg in one dimension and that is characterized by relatively large bandwidth (BWap15%) is designed, manufactured and tested. The specific advantages coming from the use of PCS-EBGs are two fold. On one hand the losses associated to surface waves are significantly reduced. On the other hand each element of the array has a larger effective area that leads to a higher gain for the complete array when compared with a standard technology. Additional benefits are the low cross-polarization levels, the good front to back ratio considering that the antenna does not include a backing reflector, and the low profile     

The Numerical Simulation of the Broadband Spiral Antenna Design Based on Hybrid Backed-Cavity

In the paper, the hybrid backed-cavity with EBG (Electromagnetic Band-Gap) structure and PEC (Perfect Electronic Conductor) is proposed for Archimedean spiral antenna, which can make the spiral antenna work over the 10:1 bandwidth, without the loss introduced by absorbing materials. Based on the AMC characteristic (Artificial Magnetic Conductor), the EBG is placed in the outer region of backed-cavity to improve the blind spot gain in the low frequency. The PEC at the center of the structure is used to obtain high gain at high frequency. The better antenna performances are achieved in the low profile spiral antenna. A typical spiral antenna with hybrid backed cavity is numerically studied. The novel spiral antenna design with hybrid backed cavity is validated by simulated results.     

EBG结构磁性材料微带天线的研究与设计

以磁性材料(JV-5)作为基板,设计双L型结构的微带天线,带宽是普通基板的2倍以上,尺寸缩小了40%。在此基础上引入电磁带隙(EBG)结构,设计了一种基于磁性基板EBG结构的微带天线,该EBG结构采用接地板腐蚀性,即在地板上腐蚀出周期H型和圆形结构,采用电磁仿真软件HFSS14.0进行仿真设计。结果显示,与非磁性材料做基板的微带天线相比,EBG结构磁性材料具有小型化和宽频化突出优点,相对带宽达到10%以上,增益方面略有降低,引入EBG结构后能在一定程度上减小了天线的尺寸同时增大了天线的带宽,改善了天线的增益和辐射特性。     

EBG Superstrate Array Configuration for the WAAS Space Segment

Two different electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) superstrate array antenna configurations, intended for the Wide Area Augmentation Service space segment, are presented in this paper. The described antenna configurations take advantage of the directivity enhancement produced by a semireflective sheet placed parallel to a metallic ground plane. The first design presented is realized using a 2$,times,$ 2 circularly polarized (CP) patch array illuminating an EBG superstrate composed of a square pattern of circular holes etched in a thin metallic sheet. The second design consists of a 2$,times,$ 2 CP helix array feeding a hexagonal pattern of holes etched into a metallic EBG superstrate. Both configurations have been designed, breadboarded, and measured, and excellent agreement between simulations and measurements has been recorded. The accurate control of the antenna pattern phase center variation with both the frequency and the antenna field of view, necessary for the intended navigation antenna application, has been the principal challenge of this work. The EBG technology designs presented here are simpler than conventional navigation antennas and can lead to cost reduction, beamforming network simplification, and height reduction while offering similar radio-frequency performances to equivalent products realized in conventional technology.      

基于复合左右手传输线的2.45 GHz微带天线设计

基于复合左右手传输线基本原理, 提出了电磁带隙结构的双负媒质微带天线设计方法, 并制作了2.45 GHz的微带天线.该微带天线由2个单元的电磁带隙组成, 此电磁带隙结构经过优化采用非均匀结构, 可通过调整贴片尺寸和金属过孔半径来改变电磁带隙结构单元等效电路的并联部分电容和电感, 进而调节天线的谐振频率.设计并制作的微带天线其贴片整体尺寸为53.2 mm×19.8 mm, 在2.45 GHz的回波损耗为-32.6 dB, 方向图近似为8字形方向图, 最大增益为0.72 dB.仿真和测试的回波损耗、方向图符合得很好, 从而验证了这种设计方法的有效性.     

Small EBG resonator high-gain antenna using in-phase highly-reflecting surface

A small EBG resonator antenna (1.62lambda₀times1.62times₀timeslambda₀/4 in size) with specially-located PEC sidewalls to close the resonant cavity is proposed to achieve maximum directivity. An in-phase highly-reflecting surface is installed a quarter-wavelength above the PEC ground plane. For this small EBG resonator antenna, 13.5 dBi measured directivity and 11 dBi peak gain are obtained at 11.6 GHz.     

Linear array of woodpile EBG sectoral horn antennas

A technique is described for creating linear array antennas that conform to the natural stacking sequence of the woodpile electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) material. Each element in the linear array consists of a woodpile EBG sectoral horn antenna. The electromagnetic confinement mechanism within each horn antenna relies wholly on the 3-D EBG of the woodpile material. The array element has a typical sectoral horn pattern with a directional beam in one principal plane and a broader beam in the other. The bandwidth of the sectoral horn is almost equal to that of the defect EBG waveguide. Measured and theoretical results for radiation patterns, impedance bandwidth and gain of a sectoral horn antenna made from alumina are described, and theoretical results for a design made from silicon are presented. It is shown that the layer-by-layer nature of the woodpile EBG material enables sectoral horn antennas to be easily stacked together in the E-plane to create linear arrays. Analysis of the mutual coupling as a function of element separation and its effect on reflection coefficient are presented for a two-element linear array in silicon. Theoretical analyses for fixed and scanned beam linear arrays of silicon woodpile EBG sectoral horns are described and finite-difference time-domain results are compared with array theory. The fixed beam arrays are designed for high directivity while the scanned beam array enables wide angle beam steering through the use of parasitic array elements.     

基于人工磁导体的低RCS微带天线设计

基于人工磁导体(AMC)的工作机理,设计了一款工作频率在X波段的低雷达散射截面(RCS)微带天线。设计了一种AMC单元,经X和Y极化波垂直入射在8.6~14.6 GHz的频带范围内,获得180°±37°的反射相位差;将其进行正交排列组成AMC棋盘结构的反射屏,反射屏中AMC阵列块由3×3的单元组成。仿真结果显示,该反射屏较相同尺寸的PEC板具有更小的后向RCS,将此AMC结构与工作频点为10 GHz的微带天线共面排布,在保持原有天线良好辐射性能和剖面高度的同时,在8.4~14.8 GHz的频率范围内对两种极化波垂直入射实现了不低于7.5 dB的RCS缩减量。     

Design and Development of an Efficient EBG Structures Based Band Notched UWB Circular Monopole Antenna

Band notched circular monopole antennas for ultra-wide band applications are proposed in this paper. The proposed antennas in this paper can reject worldwide interoperability for microwave access WiMAX band (3.3–3.8 GHz) and wireless local area network WLAN band (5–6 GHz). Antennas utilises mushroom-type electromagnetic band gap (EBG) structures and I-slot embedded edge located via (ELV) EBG structures to achieve band-notched designs. The advantages of band notched designs using EBG structures like notch-frequency tuning, dual-notch antenna designs and stable radiation pattern are also verified. Various antenna designs with slot in EBG structures, variations in placement of EBG structures, number of EBG structures and ELV type EBG structures are simulated. About 30% reduction in size of EBG structures is obtained if conventional mushroom type EBG is replaced by proposed I-slot embedded ELV-EBG structure. Fabricated and measured results are in good agreement with simulated ones.

     

Cylindrical EBG antenna for short range gigabit wireless communications at millimetre-wave bands

An omnidirectional millimetre-wave antenna based on a cylindrical electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) resonator is presented. The cylindrical woodpile is fabricated using the ceramic extrusion freeforming technique with high purity alumina powder. The designed antenna can achieve a narrow beam with 6.5° measured half power beam-width in the elevation plane without using an array configuration. The overall antenna gain is approximately 5 dBi at 94.2 GHz, suitable for future short range gigabit wireless communications.     

35GHZ Patch Antenna Array Based on the Electromagnetic Band‐Gap Structure

The electromagnetic band‐gap (EBG) structure, also called photonic band‐gap structure, consisted by triangular arrays of air columns on the dielectric structure is designed and studied by using the FDTD method. According to the simulated and measured results, the EBG structure effectively suppressing surface wave for TE and TM modes is designed. The optimized EBG structure is presented.The proposed EBG structure is applied to the four‐element microstrip patch array antenna. As results of simulation and measurements, the impedance bandwidth and the gain of proposed EBG patch array antenna are improved.