Surface efficiency measurements on a high-modulus carbon fibre composite reflector antenna at L- and S-band frequencies

The r.f. surface reflectivity of a parabolic antenna reflector fabricated from carbon fibre reinforced plastic with high modulus fibres, has been investigated at L- and S-band frequencies by a swept frequency gain comparison method. The gain of the antenna with the reflector uncoated was compared with that of the same unit but with a metal coating on the reflector.     

低副瓣气象雷达天线增益测量及误差分析

简述了低副瓣S波段8.54 m气象雷达天线的基本特性,提出利用方向图积分法计算天线方向性增益,扣除方向图有限积分区域引起的增益损失、漏失损失、交叉极化损失、失配损失和馈源网络插入损耗,从而确定天线增益的方法。给出了各种增益损失因子的计算公式,分析了方向图积分法测量天线增益误差,其均方根误差≤"0.224 dB。最后给出了S波段8.54 m气象雷达天线增益的实测结果,测量结果同理论结果吻合很好。     

0.2 THz频段的光子晶体微带天线研究

将缺陷型一维光子晶体应用在微带天线上,设计了一款工作在0.2 THz 频段处的光子晶体微带天线,并且利用基于有限元法的三维电磁仿真软件 HFSS 以及软件 Origin 进行模拟仿真及作图。研究表明：光子晶体微带天线的增益可以达到9.3 dB,与普通微带天线相比增益增加了2.5 dB。并且讨论了光子晶体的周期层数对微带天线的影响,发现光子晶体周期层数为3层时,天线的回波损耗最低。然后以周期层数为3层的光子晶体微带天线为例,讨论了不同的光子晶体与微带天线的距离对天线的增益和回波损耗的影响。     

Peak gain of a Cassegrain antenna with secondary position adjustment

For an enclosed Cassegrain antenna, the loss of peak gain and beam deviation due to structural deformations of the primary reflector and rigid body displacements of the secondary reflector and of the feed are computed from the combined changes in the radio frequency (RF) path length. As the antenna moves in elevation, the position of the secondary reflector may be adjusted mechanically to minimize the loss of peak gain; a general method for the computation of the magnitude of such adjustments and of their effects on the gain and pointing of the system is presented. Numerical results are obtained for a particular case of a 45-ft diameter antenna designed for operation at 95.5 GHz RF for which the computed peak gain of the antenna varies significantly with the elevation angle. The results indicate that the loss of peak gain as the antenna moves in elevation can be substantially reduced by mechanical adjustment of the position of the secondary reflector.     

Coaxial multi-slot antenna for mobile terminals in LEO-MSAT

A novel coaxial slot antenna is proposed for satellite mobile communications. It uses five circumferential slots with optimised positions to achieve an upward-skewed main-beam for satellite tracking. The radiation pattern and gain and return loss of the slot antenna are discussed. The antenna has the advantages of high gain, high efficiency, low-cost and ease of fabrication     

UHF天线的小型化分析

针对超高频机载合成孔径雷达天线小型化、高增益和宽频带的问题,分析了短背射天线缩小背腔的增益损失.根据pottel 推算的公式,计算了馈源反射盘遮挡的增益损失.提出了用一种由宽偶极子构成的H型天线二元阵来取代短背射天线中的引向结构.指出了这种结构不仅能够提高天线增益、展宽频带还能缩小天线结构.比较了国内外小型超高频合成孔径雷达天线的结构.研究表明,利用宽偶极子和微带组阵能为有限平台提供重量轻、结构小、增益高和宽频带的超高频合成孔径雷达天线.     

Broadband printed circularly-polarised aperture antenna array for millimetre-wave gigabit applications

A simple and successful design of a printed aperture antenna array is presented in view of high-speed millimetre-wave wireless access applications. The antenna element design is based on a broadband travelling- wave aperture antenna for circularly-polarised radiation. For the antenna array design, the sequential rotation scheme is employed for improving the co-polarised gain and axial ratio. The presented antenna array is designed in the 40?48 GHz band and implemented with a 5mil-thick RT/Duroid-5880 PCB. Promising performances are achieved, including a return loss (,10 dB) bandwidth of 32%, an axial ratio (,3 dB) bandwidth of 25%, and a co-polarised gain (flatness , 3 dB) bandwidth of 32% with a maximum gain of 11dBic.     

超宽带脉冲天线的补偿技术研究

针对超宽带通信系统中脉冲信号传输保真度的问题, 分析了保真度与脉冲天线的相频特性、增益-频率特性的关系, 提出通过调整天线的增益特性来对信号在自由空间产生的传输损耗进行平衡补偿的技术.通过对一款高保真印刷半锥形单极天线(Half-Printed Tapered Monopole Antenna, Half-PTMA)增益-频率特性的仿真分析, 以及将此补偿技术应用到一款超宽带平面单极天线的设计改进, 改进后保真度提高了5%, 验证了文中补偿技术的有效性, 为超宽带脉冲天线的高保真设计提供了有价值的设计依据.     

Two-dimensional cylindrical dielectric resonator antenna array

A square 2×2 subarray and infinite phased array of aperture-coupled cylindrical dielectric resonator antennas is investigated experimentally. The return loss, radiation pattern, and antenna gain are studied and compared with those of the single element antenna, and the waveguide simulator is used to measure the return loss of the element in an infinite array environment     

一种新型高增益微带天线

提出了一种新型高增益宽频天线结构,采用低介电介质,在高于贴片1mm,间距2．5mm处加载3个宽1．5mm的方环形金属片。利用HFSS仿真软件对该天线进行仿真,最大增益达到了19．466 dB,比未痴载时增加10．14 dB,相对带宽增加了1．37％,且全向性好,体积小,结构简单,成本低。     

一种高增益Vivaldi超宽带天线

传统的Vivaldi天线具有超宽带优点,但存在定向性较差,且在工作频带的两端增益下降严重的问题。文中提出了一种高增益的Vivaldi天线,通过对传统微带线馈电结构的Vivaldi超宽带天线加载零折射率超常介质和轴向边缘梳状结构的矩形槽缝结构,提高了天线在整个工作频段内的增益。对所提出的天线进行了设计、优化和仿真分析,并制作天线样品,仿真和测试结果吻合良好。测试与仿真结果表明,在4~11 GHz的工作频段内,天线的回波损耗优于-10 dB;与传统Vivaldi天线相比,在整个工作频段内天线增益均有所提高,其中在工作频率的低端(4~6 GHz)天线增益提高2.5 dB,高端(9~11 GHz)增益提高1.5 dB。     

一种新型介质加载的矩形喇叭天线

传统的卫星地面通信系统多采用抛物面天线,但抛物面天线却存在体积大、灵活性差等缺点,而喇叭天线则可以较明显地克服上述不足,但其增益较小、损耗较大。文中设计了一种新型介质加载的矩形喇叭天线,该天线有两层结构:上层为辐射结构,下层为微带-槽耦合馈电结构。辐射结构是中心为矩形喇叭孔的长方体铜板。这种结构的喇叭天线体积适中、活动方便,而且天线增益、反射系数和半功率波瓣宽度相比于传统形式的喇叭天线都有明显改善。     

Radiation characteristics of slotted oversize patch antennas

A novel integrated antenna with low loss and medium gain is designed. It is composed of a driven oversize slotted patch, backed by a metallic ground plane. Its radiation occurs from the slots and some of its edges. By a suitable optimisation, an excellent field distribution over the antenna aperture is obtained, that provides high gain and low crosspolarisation at far field     

Radio Propagation Model Considering Antenna Beam Tilt with Application to Small Cells

Antenna beam tilting techniques are commonly used to deploy small cells with reduced coverage compared than macrocells. This paper proposes a new statistical propagation model for small cells with electrical and mechanical antenna tilt. The proposed model combines the dual slope path loss model with the departure angle spread model for considering antenna beam tilt. The proposed departure angle spread model introduces a new parameter reflecting the azimuth spread of departure (ASD) angles in order to account for the change of transmit antenna gain by electrical and mechanical tilt. Through this approach, the antenna gain for each ray is separately computed by considering the transmit antenna beam pattern as well as the antenna beam tilt. We perform field tests to measure the receive signal power in the downlink of commercial Long-Term Evolution small cells with antenna tilt. Based on the measurement data, we find the statistically optimal ASD parameter using a grid search and calculate the antenna gain for each ray. Also, the overall transmit antenna gain is obtained by averaging antenna gains for multiple rays. To assess the accuracy of the proposed model, the estimation error is evaluated by comparing the measured receive signal power with the estimated value using a propagation model, and the performance of the proposed propagation model is compared with those of existing path loss models in terms of root mean square error deviation. Then, it is shown that the proposed model provides more accurate propagation estimation for small cells than existing models.     

Standard linear antennas, 30 to 1000 MHz

It is demonstrated that the insertion loss between pairs of thin, linear antennas may be calculated using fairly simple equations that are generally considered to be good engineering approximations. Although the insertion loss calculation does not involve antenna gain directly (some measurements are actually made in the near-field where gain is not defined), the result is precisely the quantity obtained using the antenna gains in Friis's transmission formula, assuming the mismatch losses are zero. Therefore, the antenna gain product is implicit in the more general insertion loss equations. The particular measurement of insertion loss used here yields a quantity called site attenuation by electromagnetic compatibility engineers. A close agreement between measured and calculated data provides confidence in the site attenuation calculations when the site is essentially perfect, and provides confidence in the gain product of the antenna pair calculated using basically the same equations as those used for insertion loss. It is assumed that one-half of the mean value of the difference between the calculated and measured data is a good estimate of individual antenna performance. For the antennas described here, this measure of performance is typicallylE0.05dB and on the outside,iE0.42dB.     

24GHz边馈式微带天线阵的设计

为24 GHz车载防撞雷达收发前端设计并制作了一款高增益易集成的微带阵列天线。该天线阵采用改进的新型并联馈电网络,在满足各阵元激励等幅同相的基础上,减少了馈线损耗和各种杂散辐射,从而提高了天线增益与极化纯度,同时减小了天线尺寸。测试结果表明,所研制的4×8元微带天线阵带宽为24.0~24.2 GHz(电压驻波比VSWR<1.4),最大增益达19 dBi,其尺寸仅80 mm×36 mm。     

一种基于MEMS工艺的新型THz喇叭天线的设计与仿真

提出了一种太赫兹(THz)天线结构:基于MEMS 工工艺的THz角锥喇叭天线.采用电磁场仿真软件Ansoft HFSS 11对所设计的天线进行仿真,结果表明该天线在2.5 THz ～3.5 THz范围以内具有回波损耗优于-25 dB,增益大于15 dB的良好特性.天线可以通过MEMS工艺(硅基KOH刻蚀)制造,具有加工...     

Aperture-coupled dielectric resonator antenna with a perpendicularfeed

The aperture-coupled dielectric resonator antenna with perpendicular feed is investigated experimentally. The return loss, radiation pattern, and antenna gain of the new configurations are given and discussed     

High-gain active composite right/left-handed leaky-wave antenna

A novel high-gain active composite right/left-handed (CRLH) metamaterial leaky-wave antenna (LWA) is presented. This antenna, which is designed to operate at broadside, is constituted by passive CRLH leaky-wave sections interconnected by amplifiers, which regenerate the power progressively leaked out of the structure in the radiation process in order to increase the effective aperture of the antenna and thereby its gain. The gain is further enhanced by a matching regeneration effect induced by the quasi-unilateral nature of the amplifiers. Both the cases of quasi-uniform and binomial field distributions, corresponding to maximum directivity and minimum side-lobe level, respectively, have been described. An active LWA prototype is demonstrated in transmission mode with a gain enhancement of 8.9 dB compared to its passive counterpart. The proposed antenna can attain an arbitrarily high gain by simple increase of the length of the structure, without penalty in terms of return loss and without requiring a complicated feeding network like conventional array antennas.     

Dual-polarised single-layer slotted patch antenna

A compact design of the single-layer slotted microstrip patch antenna is presented, which has two highly decoupled orthogonal input ports and is capable of generating dual-polarised radiation. The proposed antenna displays a desired characteristic for reducing polarisation loss between the transmitting and receiving antenna units at arbitrary angles. The measured results show that the proposed antenna with resonance frequency at 5.93 GHz has a bandwidth of about 300 MHz, an average gain of greater than 8 dBi, and an input isolation of exceeding 20 dB for the entire impedance bandwidths of the two polarisations.