Novel Composite Phase-Shifting Transmission-Line and Its Application in the Design of Antenna Array |
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| Authors: | Lin X Q Bao D Ma H F Cui T J |
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| Affiliation: | State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, School of Information Science and Engineering, School of Electronic Engineering, Southeast University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Nanjing, Chengdu, P. R. ChinaP. R. China; |
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| Abstract: | A novel composite phase-shifting transmission line (TL) with designable characteristics is presented, which can be used to achieve arbitrary phase of the transmission coefficient at any required frequency with a certain length of the TL. An empirical formula is given of the relationship between the phase and physical length of the composite TL at a required frequency. A sample of 0$^{circ}$ phase-shifting TL is designed in details, and is verified by the full-wave simulation. At the required frequency of 5 GHz, the amplitude of ${rm S}_{21}$ is equal to $-0.23~{rm dB}$ with a phase of $-0.467^{circ}$. The electric length is only $0.212lambda_{0}$ , which has been decreased by 68.5% compared to the conventional microstrip line. Using the proposed composite TL, an antenna array is designed with two radiation patches excited by the novel series feed-line. The detailed procedure of such design is presented. The lowest reflection coefficient is exactly achieved at the required frequency of 5 GHz. The maximum radiation is obtained at $theta_{0}=0^{circ}$ , which indicates that the 0$^{circ}$ phase-shifting TL works very well. The sample is also fabricated and good agreements between simulation and measurement results are obtained. |
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