Dual-frequency dual circularly-polarised patch antenna with wide beamwidth

A dual-frequency dual-circularly polarised patch antenna with wide beamwidth is proposed. The two-layer structure comprises circular patches with offset circular slots connected to rectangular slots. They provide orthogonal perturbations realising RHCP and LHCP for the lower and upper bands, respectively. The wide beamwidth is realised by extending the substrate beyond the groundplane. Measurements show a maximum beamwidth of 180deg and gains of 3.9 and 0.5 dBic for zenith and 10deg elevation, respectively, for the upper band. The measured beamwidth for the low band is 130deg with a maximum gain of 3.9 and -0.7 dBic for zenith and 10deg elevation, respectively. The axial-ratio is less than 3 dB in the hemisphere for elevations greater than 10deg for both bands.     

Ultrawideband Double Rhombus Antenna With Stable Radiation Patterns for Phased Array Applications

A broadband microstrip-fed printed antenna is proposed for phased antenna array systems. The antenna consists of two parallel-modified dipoles of different lengths. The regular dipole shape is modified to a quasi-rhombus shape by adding two triangular patches. Using two dipoles helps maintain stable radiation patterns close to their resonance frequencies. A modified array configuration is proposed to further enhance the antenna radiation characteristics and usable bandwidth. Scanning capabilities are studied for a four-element array. The proposed antenna provides endfire radiation patterns with high gain, high front-to-back (F-to-B) ratio, low cross-polarization level, wide beamwidth, and wide scanning angles in a wide bandwidth of 103%     

S波段宽波束圆极化天线设计

随着现代无线通信系统的发展,对天线也提出了一些特定的更高的要求。设计了一种S频段宽波束圆极化微带天线,以满足系统对天线宽波束辐射的要求;在天线的辐射贴片上附加寄生贴片以展宽天线带宽,并利用金属化过孔以实现单边短路,达到天线小型化设计的目的;利用旋转结构结合多点馈电技术以获得微带天线宽波束圆极化辐射。通过理论分析并利用三维电磁仿真软件HFSS对天线进行了仿真设计和实验,仿真结果与测试结果吻合良好。     

Design of a Compact Millimeter-Wave Microstrip Antenna with Wide Bandwidth and Broad Beamwidth

Design of a novel compact millimeter-wave microstrip antenna with wide bandwidth and broad beamwidth is presented. In the structure, multiple layers and a parasitic element as well as a coupling aperture are used to achieve wideband, while a conducting cylinder and the coupling aperture are used to obtain broad beamwidth. Finally, phased array with eight present elements has been designed as an example. Compared to traditional microstrip antennas and arrays, present antenna and array are of smaller dimension and broader beamwidth as well as wider bandwidth.     

Dual-polarized slot-coupled planar antenna with wide bandwidth

A new dual-polarized slot-coupled microstrip patch antenna is presented, which can achieve high-isolation, low cross-polarization levels, a wide bandwidth, and low backward radiation levels. The coupling slot is an H-shaped slot. For wide bandwidth and easy integration with active circuits, it uses slot-coupled stacked microstrip patches. The theoretical analysis is based on the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. First, a parametric study on the input impedance of the antenna with a single input port is presented. Based on the results, a dual-polarized microstrip antenna is designed, fabricated, and then measured. The measured return loss exhibits an impedance bandwidth of over 20.9% and the isolation between two polarization ports is better than 36 dB over the bandwidth. The cross-polarization levels in both E and H planes are better than 22 dB. The front-to-back ratio of the antenna radiation pattern is better than 21 dB. Both theoretical and experimental results of return loss, isolation, and radiation patterns are presented and discussed.     

Ferrite‐based wideband circularly polarized microstrip antenna design

In this paper, a wideband, circularly polarized patch antenna is proposed that leverages the unidirectional resonant modes of a circular patch mounted on top of a grounded dielectric‐ferrite substrate. The proposed antenna is fed via the proximity coupling method and several parasitically coupled patches are placed on a dielectric superstrate to enhance the impedance bandwidth of the antenna. The resonant modes of the structure rotate only in the clockwise or counter clockwise directions. In the frequency range where the effective permeability of the ferrite layer is negative, the resonance frequencies of these modes differ significantly, which produces a large axial ratio (AR) bandwidth. For the proposed antenna, the numerical results show the 10 dB impedance bandwidth to be around 44% and the 3 dB axial ratio bandwidth to be higher than 64%.     

Hybrid-coupled broadband triangular microstrip antennas

Two broadband configurations consisting of three hybrid-coupled equilateral and isosceles triangular microstrip antennas have been proposed. Both configurations yield more than four times the bandwidth as compared with the corresponding single triangular microstrip antenna. The radiation pattern of a hybrid-coupled isosceles triangular microstrip antenna is in the broadside direction with very small variation over the entire bandwidth. In addition, this antenna has wide half power beamwidth, making it suitable as an element for the large scan broadband antenna array.     

A broad-band rectangular patch antenna with a pair of wide slits

A new broad-band design of a probe-fed rectangular patch antenna with a pair of wide slits is proposed and experimentally studied. The proposed design is with an air substrate, and experimental results show that, simply by inserting a pair of wide slits at one of the radiating edges of the rectangular patch, good impedance matching over a wide bandwidth can easily be achieved for the proposed antenna. With an air substrate of thickness about 8% of the wavelength of the center operating frequency, the proposed antenna can have an impedance bandwidth of about 24%. For frequencies within the impedance bandwidth, good radiation characteristics are also observed, with a peak antenna gain of about 7.2 dBi     

宽频带宽波束磁电偶极子天线设计

为了展宽天线的波束宽度,在磁电(ME)偶极子天线的基础上,该文设计出一种低交叉极化宽频带宽波束的新型磁电偶极子天线。通过将振子倾斜弯折,展宽了天线的波束宽度;结合6个寄生振子的对称加载,提高了辐射方向图的一致性。在型馈电结构基础上,优化天线的振子间距和振子长度,实现了天线58.5%的相对带宽(S11-10 dB),频带范围为2.3~4.2 GHz;对振子倾斜角度以及寄生振子的参数进行优化,在2.4~4.0 GHz的频带内实现了辐射方向图E面和H面同时达到120以上的半功率波束宽度(HPBW)。测试与仿真有较好的一致性,证明了所设计天线不仅具有宽频带宽波束特性,同时在整个频带范围内方向图的一致性得到了极大地提高。     

Wide bandwidth and broad beamwidth microstrip patch antenna

A novel wideband and broad-beam microstrip antenna loaded with gaps and stubs is proposed. The antenna is based on a two-layer stacked electromagnetic coupling microstrip patch antenna (ECMSA). The upper patch of the antenna is loaded with two arc gaps and three stubs. The ECMSA is used to achieve wide impedance bandwidth, while the gaps and stubs-loaded patch is used to obtain broad-beam. The impedance bandwidth is up to 34.6%. In this impedance bandwidth, the pattern bandwidth is 13%. In this pattern bandwidth, the 3 dB beamwidth of E-plane and H-plane remain stable and are about ±60°. Simulation results agree well with measured results.     

Broadband low-cost planar sector antenna element for WLAN applications

A novel planar antenna element for applications in sector antennas is proposed. The antenna element consists of three patches coupled both electromagnetically and through the feeding network to ensure 90deg beamwidth in a wide frequency range. A suspended microstrip technique has been used to ensure simultaneously low production costs and low losses within the feeding network. The designed antenna element operates within a frequency range of 5.1-5.9 GHz.     

基于螺纹槽结构的90°波纹喇叭性能研究

为了拓宽宽带通信天线波纹喇叭馈源的工作频带，设计了一款新型90°波纹喇叭，它的波纹槽以阿基米德螺线的轮廓向外扩展. 仿真和测试结果表明:该新型波纹喇叭最优工作带宽可达2∶1，在10~20 GHz的工作频带内，具有稳定的相位中心，其45°面最大交叉极化电平低于?25 dB；在宽频带内波束宽度保持相对恒定，且天线E面和H面辐射方向图的?10 dB波束宽度非常接近. 该新型波纹槽可以在宽频带内使得喇叭的辐射方向图更为对称，是改善波纹喇叭性能的新思路.     

A monopolar patch antenna with very wide impedance bandwidth

A monopolar patch antenna that utilizes a bandwidth broadening technique is investigated experimentally and numerically. The proposed antenna consists of a monopole that is formed by connecting four trapezoidal plates orthogonally. A circular patch, which is shorted to the circular ground plane by four shorting wires, is placed at the top of the monopole. The antenna possesses 10-and 14-dB return loss bandwidths of 138% and 107.2% respectively, which is about 49 times that of the corresponding monopolar wire-patch antenna. Also, it provides monopole-like radiation patterns over such wide operating bandwidth. As the proposed antenna can achieve such wide impedance bandwidth with relatively low profile, it is very suitable for multi-band mobile communication systems.     

Analysis and design of wide band Microstrip-line-fed antenna with defected ground structure for Ku band applications

A wide band Microstrip antenna is proposed for Ku band applications with defected ground structure. A circular shape defect is integrated in the ground plane. A novel equivalent circuit model is proposed for Microstrip patch antenna with defected ground structure. Accurate design equations are presented for the wideband Microstrip antenna and theoretical analysis is done for the proposed structure. The proposed antenna has an impedance bandwidth of 56.67% ranging from 9.8 GHz to 17.55 GHz, which covers Ku-band and partially X-band. The antenna shows good radiation characteristics within the entire band, and has a gain ranging from 5 dBi to 12.08 dBi. Minimum isolation between co-polar and cross-polarization level of 20 dB and 15 dB is achieved in H-plane and E-plane respectively. The simulation of the proposed antenna is done on HFSS v.14, and measured results of fabricated antenna are in good agreement with the theoretical and simulated results.     

FM wide band panel dipole antenna

It is very common that when a broadcaster needs to install an FM transmitting antenna within a large metropolitan area he places it on the tallest structure or building available. When the rooftop is already occupied by a large number of other types of transmitting and receiving antennas, the panel dipole antenna should be chosen. This antenna is secured to the side walls of the upper floors with the panel oriented to obtain full coverage of the most desirable areas of the city. For the Buenos Aires area this orientation avoids radiating toward Uruguay and specifically toward Montevideo, some 140 miles away. A wide band antenna operation permits placing the station on the air and at the same time allows future stations to share it without the installation of new antennas. Details of model and full model impedance and radiation pattern measurements during the antenna development are presented in order to show its technical characteristics. The radiation patterns were measured on a scale model in an anechoic chamber. The full scaled model was measured in an outdoor antenna range. Both E and H plane radiation patterns were measured along the FM band in order to observe pattern variations on both planes. Practically no difference in a panel radiation beamwidth from 88 to 108 MHz was observed and at the same time good input impedance was maintained. A really wide band antenna in pattern and VSWR is obtained. Power division for the antenna system is obtained designing an eight port power divider using the microstrip line technique. In this case, however due to high power operation the ground plane and strip are contained in a sealed metallic box and are separated by high pressure dry air like into the 3" feeding coaxial line.     

77 GHz汽车角雷达宽波束平坦增益阵列天线设计

设计了一款基于波束赋形技术的宽波束、平坦增益平面阵列天线,用于汽车角雷达系统.该阵列天线由三个1×10串馈线阵组成,串馈线阵采用单元不等间距分布的Dolph-Chebyshev天线综合法进行设计以降低副瓣.为了满足汽车角雷达宽视场角(field of view,FOV)的需求,对平面阵列天线采用波束赋形技术以展宽方位面...     

一种新型宽带双极化低剖面复合式阵列天线

提出了一种利用多种形式的辐射贴片阵元组成的复合式阵列天线。阵元采用了多种形式的馈电方法。部分阵元和馈电微带线直接连接馈电,其他阵元和馈电微带线采用电磁耦合进行馈电。通过优化辐射贴片的形状、对应的馈电方法、辐射贴片连接端的阻抗调节块、阵列单元之间的阻抗调节段,在宽频带内不但获得了良好的阻抗特性,也实现了期望的赋形辐射方向图。测试结果表明,该阵列天线高度小于中心频率的0.06个波长,相对阻抗带宽(驻波比小于1.45)和辐射带宽分别超过23%和17%。     

分析宽频带、双极化、恒束宽四脊喇叭的混合方法

介绍了作为反射面天线馈源的宽频带、双极化、恒波束四脊喇叭，运用有限元和模式匹配相结合的混合法详细且计算了四脊喇叭的广义散射矩阵。然后运用口面积分计算了四脊喇叭的辐射远场，给出了四脊喇叭和用四脊喇叭做馈源的反射面天线的实测结果。     

基于尺寸渐变超表面宽带高增益低剖面天线

设计了一种基于尺寸渐变超表面的宽带高增益低剖面天线,该天线由双层超表面和一层微带缝隙组合而成。双层超表面由分别印刷在2个介质板上的尺寸渐变六边形阵列贴片组成,贴片之间存在非等距间隙。超表面单元尺寸渐变设计能够使天线产生多个邻近的谐振点,从而展宽带宽。通过改变超表面天线尺寸结构,分析天线的宽带辐射特性。为获得最佳宽带性能,采用遗传算法优化天线几何参数。制作并测试了一款边长为43.3 mm,厚度为4.853 mm的样本天线用于验证仿真结果。实测结果显示,该天线-10 dB阻抗带宽达到了54%(3.99～6.93 GHz),最高增益达到12.05 dB,在4～6 GHz范围内增益保持在8 dB以上。该天线实现了宽频带、高增益、低剖面的特点,适用于宽带高速率无线通信的诸多领域。     

An ultrawide-bandwidth tapered resistive TEM horn antenna

A novel stable beamwidth, ultrawide-bandwidth low-scattering antenna is presented. This antenna is a modified version of the conducting slotline bowtie hybrid (SBH) antenna with resistive sheets (Rcards) introduced into the guiding structure design. Since the resistive sheets can attenuate creeping wave fields, much smaller rolled edges are needed in the Rcard SBH antenna. Moreover, due to the Rcard's partially transparent nature with respect to electromagnetic fields, the radar cross section (RCS) associated with this new antenna is smaller than the original conducting rolled edge one. By employing an optimization process based on the concept of the genetic algorithm, one can easily design the Rcard SBH antenna to obtain a very stable antenna beamwidth and phase center in both the E- and H-planes across the entire operating frequency bandwidth. Because of its constant beamwidth, low RCS, and broad-band features, the Rcard SBH antenna is an ideal antenna for many applications such as a compact range feed. Calculated and measured results are presented to demonstrate the performance of this new antenna