Modular All Metal Vivaldi Antenna With 9:1 Bandwidth

Li, Yeqiang; Li, Xiangxiang; Tao, Jing; Liu, Chen

doi:10.1109/csrswtc56224.2022.10098406

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“…During our research, we found that the structural discontinuity of the array brought by elements would cause the array to resonate at certain frequencies, thus leading to a deterioration in the array performance. A similar phenomenon of wideband performance deterioration in the PCB-based Vivaldi arrays caused by the separation of the adjacent elements has been found in previous studies, such as [7,27]. To overcome this problem, a method of eliminating the resonance was specifically studied and verified and has become an important feature of our work.…”

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Dual-Polarized Metal Vivaldi Array Using Independent Structural Elements

Chen,

Wang,

Liu

et al. 2024

Sensors

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In this letter, a dual-polarized metal Vivaldi phased array antenna composed of independent structural elements is proposed, covering 6–18 GHz. By designing Vivaldi elements with a flexible and complementary structure, arrays of arbitrary shapes and scales can be constructed. The resonance caused by structural discontinuity is critically studied and eliminated to ensure good performance across the entire band. The antenna elements are fed by 50-Ohm SSMP connectors and manufactured from 2A12 aluminum alloy. An array prototype consisting of 8 × 8 dual-polarized metal has been fabricated and tested with active transmit/receive (T/R) modules to demonstrate the design concept. The array exhibits excellent beam-scanning characteristics in both the E-plane and H-plane, within the scanning range without grating lobes, which shows good agreement with the simulated results. The measured gain results are within the range of 15.2 to 24.8 dBi, and the aperture efficiencies are greater than 91% in the entire operating band. The wideband antenna technology involved in this study can effectively help increase the capacity of communication systems and meets the intentions of the Special Issue.

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