Design of low cost microstrip antenna arrays for mm-Wave applications

Rida, A.; Tentzeris, Manos M.; Nikolaou, Symeon

doi:10.1109/aps.2011.5996916

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“…At each level of the corporate feed network, the mismatches from the radiating elements are well isolated from each other. Also multiple simultaneous beams can be formed using Butler matrix or Blass matrix feed [43], [44]. The micro-strip arrays with parallel feed network are used for mm-wave applications [45], [46].…”

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An Inclusive Survey on Array Antenna Design for Millimeter-Wave Communications

2019

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The enormous growth of wireless data traffic in recent years has made the millimeter-wave (mm-wave) technology as a good fit for high-speed communication systems. Extensive works are continuing from the device to system, to the radio architecture, to the network to support the communication in mm-wave frequency ranges. To support this extensive high data rate, beam forming is found to be the key-enabling technology. Hence, an array antenna design is an extremely important issue. The beam-forming arrays are chosen to achieve the desired link capacity considering the high path loss and atmospheric loss at mm-wave frequencies and also to increase the coverage of the mm-wave communication system. There are diverse design challenges of the array due to the small size, use of large numbers of antennas in close vicinity, integration with radio-frequency (RF) front ends, hardware constraints, and so on. This paper focuses on the evolution and development of mm-wave array antenna and its implementation for wireless communication and numerous other related areas. The scope of the discussion is extended on the reported works in every sphere of mm-wave antenna array design, including the selection of antenna elements, array configurations, feed mechanism, integration with front-end circuitry to understand the effects on system performance, and the underlying reason of it. The new design aspects and research directions are unfolded as a result of this discussion.INDEX TERMS Mm-wave communication, antenna array design, array configuration, feed mechanism, RF circuit. SASWATI GHOSH received the Ph.D. degree from IIT Kharagpur, India, where she is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with G. S. Sanyal School of Telecommunications. She is involved in active research in the area of antenna design for 60-GHz communication, RF energy harvesting, EMI/EMC measurements and EMI sensors, estimation of EMC of high-frequency electronic systems, and EMI/EMC/ESD on spacecraft bodies. She has 15 international journal publications, three book chapters, and more than 60 publications, including national journals and national/international conference proceedings. She serves as a Reviewer for several international journals. She had received the Young Scientist Fellowship twice and the Women Scientist Fellowship from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. DEBARATI SEN received the Ph.D. degree in telecommunication engineering from IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India, where she is currently an Assistant Professor. Her research interests include wireless and optical communication systems, mostly on MB-OFDM, synchronization, equalization, UWB, BAN, green communications, 60-GHz communications, and baseband algorithm design for coherent optical communications.

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“…For example, the Antenna Technology Branch of the AIR Force Sensor Agency developed digital beamforming (DBF) technology for beam control [ 7 ]. Reference [ 8 ] controlled the deflection angle of the beam of the antenna by connecting a matching load at the end of the microstrip serial-fed antenna array. Ref.…”

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Design of Miniaturized Wideband Beam Deflection Conformal Array Antenna

Zhu

Sun

Chen

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Sensors

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Antenna beam deflection, along with miniaturization and wideband of the antenna is in demand for practical applications. In this paper, a cylindrical conformal array antenna with a small-tilt forward beam was designed. The microstrip antenna unit was loaded with the artificial electromagnetic structure, which reduced the size of the antenna unit. As a result, the center spacing of the array elements can be shortened with the same array element spacing. The beam deflection angle can be increased in this way without increasing the coupling effect between the parts. Changing the number of line array elements and the number of line arrays can regulate the beam width of E-field and H-field, respectively. The bandwidth of the antenna can be significantly extended by slotting the ground plane. This work implemented a cylindrical conformal array of the antenna’s forward beam with a small dip angle using a cylindrical carrier as an example. The measurement results showed that the angle between the main beam and the carrier axis of the conformal antenna was less than 30°, the bandwidth was more than 30%, and the antenna volume decreased by 40.4%.

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“…To achieve high gain (30–40 dBi) different low cost solutions exist such as large printed antenna arrays [3] but they can suffer from high loss due to the length of feeding line network, or reflector antennas [4]. One interesting solution is to design Fresnel Zone Plate lens (FZPL).…”

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Millimeter-Wave Fresnel Zone Plate Lens with new technological process

Barka

Bor

Himdi

et al. 2016

Int. J. Microw. Wireless Technol.

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International audienceFresnel Zone Plate lens (FZPL) antennas working in the V and W band are reported in this paper with half and quarter phase correction respectively. A low cost and straightforward technological process is used to manufacture the dielectric lenses using only one foam material where the dielectric constant is controlled. Simulation and measurement results are in good agreement that confirms the viability of such a process to fabricate inhomogeneous structures. Good loss efficiency of 73 and 55% are obtained at 60 and 85 GHz respectively with the two different FZPL designs. © 2016 Cambridge University Press and the European Microwave Association

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Design of low cost microstrip antenna arrays for mm-Wave applications

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An Inclusive Survey on Array Antenna Design for Millimeter-Wave Communications

An Inclusive Survey on Array Antenna Design for Millimeter-Wave Communications

Design of Miniaturized Wideband Beam Deflection Conformal Array Antenna

Millimeter-Wave Fresnel Zone Plate Lens with new technological process

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