High-Gain and Wideband Antenna Arrays: Introducing Three Patch Antenna Arrays to Show the Advantages of SPPWs Used in a Feed Network

2016 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Zheng ◽  
Huan Yi ◽  
Shi-Wei Qu
Keyword(s):  
Antenna Arrays ◽  
Patch Antenna ◽  
High Gain ◽  
Wideband Antenna ◽  
Feed Network

scholarly journals Performance Enhancement Techniques for Patch Antennas of Small Satellites

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zizung Yoon ◽  
Mayank Mayank ◽  
Enrico Stoll
Keyword(s):  
Antenna Arrays ◽  
Patch Antenna ◽  
Power Flow ◽  
Performance Enhancement ◽  
Ground Plane ◽  
High Gain ◽  
Patch Antennas ◽  
Small Satellite ◽  
Rectangular Patch ◽  
Satellite Missions

Patch antennas are compact, less complex, planar structures and therefore, widely used in small satellite missions for telecommand, data link, and intersatellite link, particularly in S- band and X- band. Improved performance of these patch antennas in terms of gain and compactness will di-rectly affect the communication efficiency of small satellite missions. Especially the coming IoT (Internet of Things) constellations require high gain and efficient antenna arrays. An optimization of single patch antenna elements is an important cornerstone for the missions. Therefore, the ef-fects of various antenna enhancement techniques, such as slotted ground plane, resistor and ca-pacitor integration, parasitic patch elements, are analyzed. These techniques were applied on a rectangular patch antenna with parameter variation to identify the optimal performances with respect to bandwidth, operating frequency, gain, polarization, and power flow. Finally, the techniques were combined to obtain an optimized antenna in terms of gain and compactness. The results were compared to a slotted reference antenna. For the scenario of a 2.4 GHz patch antenna, a gain optimization of 27 % (from 7.09 to 8.14 dBi) or size reduction of 52 % (from 96.04 to 46.2 cm²) could be achieved. Overall, our study revealed an effective way to increase the patch antenna performance, which can directly contribute to more efficient communication links and design of antenna arrays.

scholarly journals High Gain Beam Steering Antenna Arrays with Low Scan Loss for mmWave Applications

2022 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-72
Author(s):  
Anil Kumar Yerrola ◽  
Maifuz Ali ◽  
Ravi Kumar Arya ◽  
Lakhindar Murmu ◽  
Ashwani Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Antenna Array ◽  
Antenna Arrays ◽  
Patch Antenna ◽  
Beam Steering ◽  
High Gain ◽  
Microstrip Patch Antenna ◽  
Antenna Element ◽  
Array Design ◽  
Conformal Antenna ◽  
Microstrip Patch

In millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications, the antenna gain is a crucial parameter to overcome path loss and atmospheric attenuation. This work presents the design of two cylindrical conformal antenna arrays, made of modified rectangular microstrip patch antenna as a radiating element, working at 28 GHz for mmWave applications providing high gain and beam steering capability. The microstrip patch antenna element uses Rogers RO4232 substrate with a thickness of 0.5 mm and surface area of 5.8 mm × 5.8 mm. The individual antenna element provides a gain of 6.9 dBi with return loss bandwidth of 5.12 GHz. The first antenna array, made by using five conformal antenna elements, achieves a uniform gain of approximately 12 dBi with minimal scan loss for extensive scan angles. In the second antenna array, a dielectric superstrate using Rogers TMM (10i) was used to modify the first antenna array. It enhanced the gain to approximately 16 dBi while still maintaining low scan loss for wide angles. The proposed array design method is very robust and can be applied to any conformal surface. The mathematical equations are also provided to derive the array design, and both array designs are verified by using full-wave simulations.

scholarly journals High-gain cavity backed patch antenna arrays at 140 GHz based on LTCC technology

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (08) ◽  
pp. 829-834 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zihang Qi ◽  
Xiuping Li ◽  
Jinjin Chu ◽  
Jun Xiao ◽  
Hua Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Antenna Arrays ◽  
Patch Antenna ◽  
Impedance Matching ◽  
High Gain ◽  
Ceramic Technology ◽  
Antenna Element ◽  
Maximum Gain ◽  
Gain Enhancement ◽  
High Gain Antenna ◽  
Element Array

AbstractIn this paper, high-gain cavity backed patch antenna arrays are proposed based on low temperature co-fired ceramic technology at 140 GHz. By introducing a substrate integrated cavity to the patch antenna element, the gain is enhanced by 3.3 dB. Moreover, a rectangular ring is loaded around the patch for better impedance matching and further gain enhancement. The final simulated maximum gain of the proposed antenna element is 9.8 dBi. Based on the proposed high-gain antenna element, a 4 × 4-element array and an 8 × 8- element array are presented. The 4 × 4-element array shows a measured maximum gain of 16.9 dBi with 9.5 GHz bandwidth (136.2–145.7 GHz) and the 8 × 8-element array shows a measured maximum gain of 21.8 dBi with 9.8 GHz bandwidth(136.7–146.5 GHz), respectively.

Parallel–series feed network with improved G/T performance for high-gain microstrip antenna arrays

2008 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 180 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Yousefbeigi ◽  
A. Enayati ◽  
M. Shahabadi ◽  
D. Busuioc
Keyword(s):  
Antenna Arrays ◽  
Microstrip Antenna ◽  
High Gain ◽  
Feed Network ◽  
Parallel Series

scholarly journals Non-Uniformly Powered and Spaced Corporate Feeding Power Divider for High-Gain Beam with Low SLL in Millimeter-Wave Antenna Array

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (17) ◽  
pp. 4753
Author(s):  
Md Nazim Uddin ◽  
Sangjo Choi
Keyword(s):  
Antenna Array ◽  
Millimeter Wave ◽  
Antenna Arrays ◽  
Patch Antenna ◽  
High Gain ◽  
Power Divider ◽  
Wave Band ◽  
Power Dividers ◽  
Uniform Spacing ◽  
Parasitic Patch

A corporate feeding antenna array with parasitic patches has been investigated previously for millimeter-wave applications due to its high gain and wide bandwidth. However, the parasitic patch integration in the uniformly powered and spaced patch antenna array led to a high sidelobe level (SLL). In this study, we designed a non-uniformly powered and spaced corporate feeding network to feed a 12-element parasitic patch-integrated microstrip antenna array for SLL reduction at 28 GHz in the millimeter-wave band. In the power divider, we arranged two one-to-six unequally feeding power dividers from the opposite side to feed 12 antenna elements with non-uniform excitation, and effectively controlled the spacing between antenna elements. The two opposite input ports from the power divider were fed 180° out-of-phase for good isolation between the adjacent antenna elements. To verify the SLL reduction effect from the non-uniform spacing in the array, we designed two non-uniformly powered patch antenna arrays with uniform and non-uniform spacing. In the measurement, the non-uniformly powered and spaced patch antenna array demonstrated a nearly 16.56 dBi boresight gain and −17.27 dB SLL, which is nearly 2 dB lower than the uniformly spaced counterpart. Finally, we expect that the non-uniformly powered and spaced high gain patch antenna array with a low SLL will be suitable for millimeter-wave communication applications.

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