Wide-Angle Beam Scanning Phased Array Antennas: A Review

被引:6
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作者
Li, Ming [1 ]
Chen, Shu-Lin [1 ]
Liu, Yanhui [2 ]
Guo, Y. Jay [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Technol Sydney, Global Big Data Technol Ctr, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia
[2] Univ Elect Sci & Technol China, Sch Elect Sci & Engn, Chengdu 610054, Sichuan, Peoples R China
关键词
Beyond fifth-generation (B5G); grating lobe; mutual coupling; phased array antenna (PAA); sixth-generation (6G); wide-angle beam scanning (WABS); wide-angle impedance matching (WAIM); LEAKY-WAVE ANTENNA; DIELECTRIC RESONATOR ANTENNA; SHARED-APERTURE ANTENNA; LOW-PROFILE; PATTERN SYNTHESIS; LINEAR-ARRAY; ONLY CONTROL; BAND; DESIGN; ULTRAWIDEBAND;
D O I
10.1109/OJAP.2023.3296636
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
Phased array antennas (PAAs) with flexible and agile wide-angle beam scanning (WABS) abilities have drawn rapidly increasing attentions in recent years. They have found significant applications in beyond fifth-generation (B5G) and sixth-generation (6G) wireless communications, satellite communications, sensing, etc., for their outstanding capability to achieve wide spatial coverage, enable critical frequency reuse, and improve the system capacity. In this review, we aim to investigate and discuss several challenges that hinder WABS for conventional PAAs, including the strong mutual coupling, narrow beamwidth of the element antenna, etc. We then review and summarize a variety of innovative techniques to overcome these challenges. Subsequently, we discuss and analyze potential research gaps of WABS PAAs for future emerging applications. This timely review fulfills the demand of a thorough and detailed investigation on WABS technologies for PAAs and provides detailed introduction and guidance for interested researchers and engineers.
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页码:695 / 712
页数:18
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