Published Journal Articles
2024
A low‐profile circularly polarized cavity‐based waveguide aperture antenna
2024-04
2023
A Monolithically Printed Filtering Waveguide Aperture Antenna
2023-01
2022
A new design of the 2×2-element subarray antenna based on all-cavity resonator structure is presented in this article. A novel topology which employs only two resonators to layout the subarray is proposed, and two X-band rectangular waveguide cavity resonators are utilized for the subarray physical implementation. The first resonator is a conventional half-guided resonator operating at the TE101 mode. The second resonator, which is an oversized TE102 resonator based, is modified in order to keep the TE101 mode to propagate within the bandwidth of interest and facilitate the connection with the four radiating apertures. The developed coupling matrix approach is utilized to calculate the desirable frequency response, which is a standard 2nd order Chebyshev response with introducing filtering functionality to the realised gain response of the subarray. The simulation results obtained by two simulation softwares (CST and Ansoft HFSS) validate the calculation results. An extremely wide impedance bandwidth of 23% at center frequency 10 GHz when the reflection coefficient (S11 = −10 dB) is obtained. A very stable realised gain with less than 0.5 dBi variations over the bandwidth of interest (8.8–11.1 GHz) is obtained with a peak gain value of 13.1 dBi at 11 GHz. The radiation patterns have very low side lobe levels, particularly in the E-plane, due to the existence of small non-radiating area and maintaining small spacing between the radiating apertures. The proposed 2 × 2-element subarray has the advantages of wider bandwidth and low-profile comparing with our and other previous 2×2-element subarrays.A new design of the 2×2-element subarray antenna based on all-cavity resonator structure is presented in this article. A novel topology which employs only two resonators to layout the subarray is proposed, and two X-band rectangular waveguide cavity resonators are utilized for the subarray physical implementation. The first resonator is a conventional half-guided resonator operating at the TE101 mode. The second resonator, which is an oversized TE102 resonator based, is modified in order to keep the TE101 mode to propagate within the bandwidth of interest and facilitate the connection with the four radiating apertures. The developed coupling matrix approach is utilized to calculate the desirable frequency response, which is a standard 2nd order Chebyshev response with introducing filtering functionality to the realised gain response of the subarray. The simulation results obtained by two simulation softwares (CST and Ansoft HFSS) validate the calculation results. An extremely wide impedance bandwidth of 23% at center frequency 10 GHz when the reflection coefficient (S11 = −10 dB) is obtained. A very stable realised gain with less than 0.5 dBi variations over the bandwidth of interest (8.8–11.1 GHz) is obtained with a peak gain value of 13.1 dBi at 11 GHz. The radiation patterns have very low side lobe levels, particularly in the E-plane, due to the existence of small non-radiating area and maintaining small spacing between the radiating apertures. The proposed 2 × 2-element subarray has the advantages of wider bandwidth and low-profile comparing with our and other previous 2×2-element subarrays.A new design of the 2×2-element subarray antenna based on all-cavity resonator structure is presented in this article. A novel topology which employs only two resonators to layout the subarray is proposed, and two X-band rectangular waveguide cavity resonators are utilized for the subarray physical implementation. The first resonator is a conventional half-guided resonator operating at the TE101 mode. The second resonator, which is an oversized TE102 resonator based, is modified in order to keep the TE101 mode to propagate within the bandwidth of interest and facilitate the connection with the four radiating apertures. The developed coupling matrix approach is utilized to calculate the desirable frequency response, which is a standard 2nd order Chebyshev response with introducing filtering functionality to the realised gain response of the subarray. The simulation results obtained by two simulation softwares (CST and Ansoft HFSS) validate the calculation results. An extremely wide impedance bandwidth of 23% at center frequency 10 GHz when the reflection coefficient (S11 = −10 dB) is obtained. A very stable realised gain with less than 0.5 dBi variations over the bandwidth of interest (8.8–11.1 GHz) is obtained with a peak gain value of 13.1 dBi at 11 GHz. The radiation patterns have very low side lobe levels, particularly in the E-plane, due to the existence of small non-radiating area and maintaining small spacing between the radiating apertures. The proposed 2 × 2-element subarray has the advantages of wider bandwidth and low-profile comparing with our and other previous 2×2-element subarrays.
2022-05