A Low VSWR and High Efficiency Waveguide Feed Antenna Array

被引:3
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作者
Zhao Xiao-Fang [1 ]
Liu Hua-Zhu [1 ]
Li Yi [1 ]
Zhou Shi-Gang [2 ]
Sim, Chow-Yen-Desmond [3 ]
机构
[1] Dongguan Univ Technol, Sch Elect Engn & Intelligentizat, Dongguan 52380, Peoples R China
[2] Northwestern Polytech Univ, Sch Elect & Informat, Xian 710072, Shaanxi, Peoples R China
[3] Feng Chia Univ, Dept Elect Engn, Taichung, Taiwan
关键词
LOW-PROFILE; SLOT ARRAY; BAND; MICROSTRIP; NETWORK; ELEMENT;
D O I
10.1155/2018/7867091
中图分类号
TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
A low VSWR and high efficiency antenna array operating in the Ku band for satellite communications is presented in this paper. To achieve high radiation efficiency and broad enough bandwidth, all-metal radiation elements and full-corporate waveguide feeding network are employed. As the general milling method is used in the multilayer antenna array fabrication, the E-plane waveguide feeding network is adopted here to suppress the wave leakage caused by the imperfect connectivity between adjacent layers. A 4 x 8 elements array prototype was fabricated and tested for verification. The measured results of proposed antenna array show bandwidth of 6.9% (13.9-14.8 GHz) for VSWR < 1.5. Furthermore, antenna gain and efficiency of higher than 22.2 dBi and 80% are also exhibited, respectively.
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