Development of wideband CPW-fed hexagon-shaped circularly polarized slot antenna for wireless-communications

A hexagonal shaped circularly polarized (CP) wideband slot antenna using multiple stubs has been proposed and investigated. A hexagonal slot is created in the ground plane with tapered sections improving the impedance matching. Two radiators are incorporated in the structure, which is responsible for generating orthogonal degenerate modes; hence, CP radiation is achieved for the proposed antenna. For enhancing the gain of antenna, one radiator is directly connected to feed line and another one embedded in the ground plane. An inverted L-shaped arm is inserted in the slot to enhance and tune the circular polarized behavior. The presented radiator have input reflection coefficient ranges from 5.67 to 8.50 GHz (39.97%) and axial ratio bandwidth (ARBW) of 5.60–8.50 GHz (41.13%). The proposed antenna provides overlapping bandwidths of 5.67–8.50 GHz (39.97%) having average gains of 5.25 dBi within the entire frequency bands. The presented antenna is exceptionally good for the application of mobile and satellite communications.     

A circularly polarized slot antenna for high gain applications

A coplanar waveguide fed slot antenna for wideband circular polarization is designed and experimentally validated. The rectangular slot is excited using a stepped feed line terminated on a circular disc shaped tuning stub. To obtain circular polarization, inverted L-shaped strips are attached to the ground plane at the opposite corners while a rectangular slit is cut in the circular disc. The combined bandwidth (3-dB axial ratio and 10 dB impedance matching) achieved is 48% (4.35–7.1 GHz) under simulation and 40% (4.75–7.1 GHz) in measurement. The gain of the antenna is next enhanced by the application of a double layered square loop frequency selective surface. The frequency selective surface is used as a reflector placed beneath the antenna at an optimum distance. An improvement of about 4 dB is seen in the measured peak gain over most of the operating band. Experimental results are presented to characterize the antenna and the frequency selective surface and they are found to be in good agreement with the simulated results.     

An offset CPW-fed triple-band circularly polarized printed antenna for multiband wireless applications

An offset coplanar waveguide (CPW)-fed triple-band circularly polarized tilted asymmetrical E-shaped printed antenna for multiband wireless applications is presented in this paper. The antenna mainly consists of a tilted asymmetrical E-shaped patch and excite by a 50 Ω offset CPW feed line using a transformer for impedance matching to generate wide quad operating bands. By properly embedding rectangular slots in the tilted asymmetrical E-shaped patch and triangular stubs loaded modified CPW ground plane, the antenna reveals triple-band circular polarization (CP) features. Numerical analysis and experimental validation of the antenna structure have been carried out and results are presented. The mechanism of triple-band CP operation, analysis of surface current distributions, design procedure, and parametric study of the design is discussed in details. It is well suited for the application of UMTS-2100, 3.5/5.5 GHz WiMAX, 5.2/5.8 GHz WLAN, ITS, downlink of X-band satellite communication, and ITU 8 GHz bands.     

SIW cavity-backed circularly polarized square ring slot antenna with wide axial-ratio bandwidth

In the proposed work, Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) cavity-backed circularly polarized slot antenna for wideband operation is proposed. A square-ring-slot is etched on the top of the SIW cavity, used for radiation To generate the circularly polarized (CP) wave, the slot is placed slightly offset from the centroid of the cavity. By finely optimizing the antenna dimensions, it exhibits a wide axial-ratio (AR) bandwidth of 789 MHz (7.1%) ranging from 10.64 to 11.45 GHz. Moreover, the radiating slot is excited by an SIW based feed by an inductive window, which lead to a wide impedance matching over 1.74 GHz ranging from 9.92 to 11.67 GHz. Due to the SIW cavity-backing structure, the antenna offers unidirectional radiation patterns while maintaining a low-profile and planar compatibility. To validate the proposed design, the antenna is fabricated and experimentally tested in terms of reflection coefficients, AR, gain, and radiation patterns. The simulated and measured results reveal good mutual agreement. Moreover, the proposed antenna is very useful for wideband applications operating in X-band (8–12 GHz)     

一种新型布局的圆极化微带天线阵优化设计

提出了一款高增益低副瓣新型圆极化微带天线阵。单元天线采用叠层切角圆极化微带结构,通过八边形边界布局和顺序旋转交叠组阵技术,实现了天线阵方向性图的对称性和圆极化辐射性能的最优化;馈电网络采用威尔金森功分器和最大平坦式阻抗变换器实现不等功分宽带阻抗匹配,通过改进馈电方向寻求对称结构,简化了馈电网络的设计。制作了天线阵实物并进行了测量。测试结果表明:天线在3.2~4.6 GHz频段内S₁₁<-10 dB,阻抗相对带宽36%;在3.8~4.5 GHz频段内顶点轴比小于3 dB,圆极化相对带宽17%;在4~4.4 GHz频段内天线增益均在15 dB以上,最高增益达17 dB。     

A COMPACT QUADRATURE FEEDING CIRCUIT FOR CIRCULARLY POLARIZED ANTENNA

A novel compact quadrature feeding circuit for a circularly polarized antenna is described. The equivalent circuit method in microwave network theory is used and the conventional directional coupler is converted to a new quadrature feeding circuit. This feeding circuit has the same characteristics as the conventional directional coupler but its size is only about one fourth of that of the latter. The formulas for designing the feeding circuit are given. The optimized results obtained by using the software ENSEMBLE are also reported.     

圆极化径向线缝隙天线的研究

讨论了圆极化向线缝隙天线的几何结构,口径场分布、缝隙对设计。在此基础上,讨论了慢波结构和波导结构关系,分析了慢波结构对天线的影响,完成了该天线的计算机辅助设计和绘图,使用该方法给天线设计带来了方便,能灵活地调整缝隙排列、优化排列结构,具有直观和精度高的优点。     

一种毫米波微带双频天线阵的设计

文章阐述了利用3个T型功分器设计一个4×1的毫米波微带双频并馈天线阵方案,该双频天线阵的中心频率在32 GHz和35.36 GHz左右,运用Ansoft HFSS软件进行仿真测试,天线阵的增益方向图说明该天线阵主要的辐射方向是上半空,天线阵在32 GHz的增益为12.62 dB,在35.36 GHz的增益为10.72 dB。     

一种四单元圆极化微带天线阵的研制

本文设计了一种新颖的四单元圆极化微带天线阵。通过去掉单元贴片周围的介质,使天线阵的重量减少了54%。文中采用电磁仿真软件HFSS10进行优化与仿真,讨论了阵元间距对天线阵的增益、半功率波束宽度、旁瓣电平以及后瓣电平的影响。最后加工制作了相应的微带天线阵,测试结果与仿真吻合较好。     

低副瓣基片集成波导缝隙阵圆极化天线

基于基片集成波导技术与标准印刷电路板工艺,实现了圆极化、低副瓣的平面缝隙天线阵列.辐射单元采用基片集成波导项层匹配缝隙对结构,行波式圆极化单元.辐射缝隙经过改进,单个辐射单元的反射系数均小于-30 dB.平面阵列采用基片集成波导低副瓣功分器馈电.文中给出了具体设计公式、方法和仿真结果.设计制作的16×16阵列在16.1 GHz频点上实测增益为30 dB,轴比为0.7 dB,副瓣小于-20 dB.     

Length minimization of uniform linear antenna array for millimeter wave communications with maximum capacity

For uniform linear antenna array (ULA) based millimeter wave communications, the maximum capacity can be achieved by the optimal antenna separation product (ASP). However, due to the practical size limitation, it is necessary to decrease the ULA length. In this paper, an optimization problem is formulated to minimize the ULA length for millimeter wave communications with maximum capacity. We decompose the problem into two subproblems: length selection optimization and orientation deployment optimization. The optimal length selection can be obtained when the transmit and receive ULAs have equal length. By using the property of trigonometric function, we derive the optimal orientation deployment and study the influence of orientation deviation on ULA length. Simulation results are presented to validate the analyses.     

Circularly polarized co-designed filtering annular slot antenna

In this paper, a compact circularly polarized co-designed filtering annular slot antenna (ASA) is proposed. The antenna comprises a distributed capacitor-loaded annular slot radiator to produce circular polarization (CP) radiation, which is seamlessly integrated with a microstripline bandpass filter (BPF) to enhance out-of-CP-band suppression. Two tightly coupled arc branches protruding into the annular slot are used to provide the required perturbation capacitance. The filter is designed by employing three concentric arc-shaped coupled microstripline resonators. The ground plane is shared by the annular slot radiator and the filter to reduce size occupation. It is found that the proposed antenna can not only yield high frequency selectivity, but also obtain widened CP bandwidth under the assistance of the filtering circuit. An antenna prototype has been fabricated and measured, showing that the antenna achieves a 10 dB return loss impedance bandwidth of around 13.7%, enclosing a 3 dB axial ratio (AR) bandwidth of more than 10.6%. Details of design considerations and experimental results are presented and discussed.     

一种宽频宽角圆极化一维相扫天线阵

基于改进型Vivaldi天线单元,采用4单元十字交叉组合构成圆极化天线,并通过增加耦合金属立柱改善天线轴比,设计了一种超宽频宽角覆盖圆极化直线阵。该天线在1.25-4.1 GHz频段电压驻波比(VSWR)小于2,在1.6-3.6 GHz频段轴比小于3 dB,在垂直扫描方向具备宽角覆盖能力,具备较高的工程应用价值。     

RCS reduction and gain enhancement of SRR inspired circularly polarized slot antenna using metasurface

In this work, a novel Circularly Polarized (CP) slot antenna is proposed for low RCS and high gain applications. The proposed antenna is designed in two phases. Initially, a metasurface is designed, which is composed of two similar artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) unit cells arranged orthogonally in chessboard-like configuration for broadband RCS reduction. Then, the CP slot antenna is designed by placing dual SRR on the backside of the slot for impedance matching and to achieve circular polarization. Detailed analysis is conducted to investigate the performance of metasurface loaded CP slot antenna. The proposed antenna shows 10 dB RCS reduction over the bandwidth of 41.3% at boresight direction compared to CP slot antenna. The maximum in-band and out-of-band RCS reduction achieved is 24 dB and 20 dB, respectively. The maximum gain of the antenna is also increased by 2.7 dB as a result of parasitic radiation of the metasurface and an improvement in overall performance of the antenna is observed by the employment of metasurface. Measured results of the fabricated prototype are in good agreement with the simulated results.     

面向毫米波透镜阵列的FNN天线选择算法

为了减少毫米波大规模多输入多输出( Multiple-Input Multiple-Output,MIMO)系统在数据传输过程中所使用的射频链数目,解决高硬件成本和高功耗的问题,可以将透镜天线阵列作为一个实际有效的解决方案部署在毫米波MIMO系统的基站端.利用透镜天线阵列具有基于方向的能量聚焦特性,对透镜阵列进行天线选...     

Design of CPW-fed asymmetric slot UWB antenna for wireless application

A compact Ultra-WideBand(UWB) slot antenna is presented in this paper. The slot is modified rectangular in shape and asymmetrically cut in the ground plane. A hexagonal patch with two stepped CoPlanar Waveguide(CPW) feed is used to excite the slot. Wider impedance bandwidth is achieved due to the extra inductive reactance created by the asymmetric slot which neutralizes the capacitive reactance of the hexagonal patch. The measured impedance bandwidth of the proposed antenna is 11.85 GHz(2.9–14.75 GHz). The radiation patterns of the proposed antenna are obtained and found to be omni-directional in H-plane and bi-directional in E-plane.     

波导窄边斜缝行波阵列天线设计

为了快速设计波导窄边斜缝行波阵列天线,采用理论计算结合软件仿真的方法。利用电磁仿真软件HFSS模拟实验过程,得到裂缝电导函数。初始设计完成后,比较仿真结果口径分布和理论口径分布的差异,微调裂缝尺寸参数使天线口面幅度逼近设计值。设计了一个47阵元行波线阵,并采用两根波导对称放置抑制交叉极化。Taylor综合副瓣值为-30 dB,仿真得到的最大副瓣值为-24.8 dB,波瓣宽度为2.2°,增益为24.6 dB。     

Broadband high-efficiency circularly polarized active antenna and array for RF front-end application

This paper presents a broadband high-efficiency circularly polarized (CP) active integrated antenna, and a broadband CP active array at 2 GHz. To realize the broadband CP antenna, a circular patch is aperture coupled by crossed slots in the ground plane, which are fed by an L-shaped microstrip feed line below the ground. The antenna is designed to serve the functions of both a radiator and a harmonics-terminated load for class-E high-efficiency power-amplifier (PA) integration. The broadband CP active antenna is realized by directly integrating the broadband CP antenna with the class-E PA. It achieves a 9% bandwidth (1.84-2.01 GHz) for axial ratio (AR) below 3 dB, and a 12% bandwidth for power-added efficiency (PAE) over 60%. To form the broadband CP active array, four active antenna elements are sequentially rotated, and each element is directly integrated with broadband class-E PA. A low-cost printed-circuit-board technology is employed in fabrication and a pseudomorphic high electron-mobility transistor is used. A peak drain efficiency of 71.5% for the class-E amplifier is measured at 1.95 GHz. The active array achieves a peak-effective radiated power of 39.7 dBm, and PAE is over 50% within a 22.6% bandwidth (1.72-2.16 GHz). The AR is below 3 dB over a 27% bandwidth (1.72-2.26 GHz).     

顺序旋转圆极化相控阵的交叉极化抑制

针对大规模圆极化相控阵天线设计中交叉极化特性评估计算量大的问题,从阵列极化合成理论出发,提出一种简化的计算方法.推导出采用顺序旋转方法形成圆极化的阵列天线的寄生交叉极化阵因子公式,提出旋转相位差值矩阵这一参数,用于对顺序旋转形成交叉极化的机理进行直观的解释.对比分析线极化、椭圆极化单元按不同顺序旋转方式构成的阵列天线的...