Design of a Cavity-backed Slot Array Unit Cell on Inverted Microstrip Gap Waveguide
Paper in proceeding, 2016

Inverted microstrip gap waveguide is advantageous for millimeter wave application because of its low-loss, self-packaging characteristics and cost-effectiveness. In this work a planar gap waveguide slot array is presented. It is fed by a corporate distribution network realized in inverted microstrip gap waveguide. The structure consists of three layers. The top layer contains subarrays of 2 x 2 radiating slots. This is backed by an air-filled groove gap waveguide cavity. This cavity layer is fed by the inverted microstrip gap waveguide distribution network formed in the air-gap between the middle and bottom layer. The paper presents a design of the 2 x 2 subarray, i.e. the unit cell using simulations in an infinite array environment. The simulation results show that the S-11 is below -11 dB over 57-66 GHz frequency band covering 14% bandwidth, and the simulated directivity is about 39 dBi when evaluated for a 32 x 32 element slot array antenna.

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antenna

planar array

Author

Jinlin Liu

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Abbas Vosoogh

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Ashraf Uz Zaman

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Per-Simon Kildal

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP)

7447288

Subject Categories

Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

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