Hollow Waveguide 32 x 32-Slot Array Antenna Covering 71-86 GHz Band by the Technology of a Polyetherimide Fabrication
Journal article, 2018

This letter presents the design and the fabrication of a 32 x 32-element high-gain corporate-fed slot array antenna in the E-band. First of all, a 2 x 2 cavity-backed slots subarray is designed. Second, the subarray is extended to the whole array antenna by T-junction power dividers. In addition, a vertical transition from WR-12 to distribution network is also designed in order to excite the array antenna. For massive production in industry, the proposed antenna is manufactured in reality by utilizing chemical-plated polyetherimide. Then, the fabricated parts have been adjoined together by two thin layers of isotropic conductive adhesive. Finally, the fabricated antenna shows an impedance bandwidth of 20% with input reflection coefficient better than -12 dB and the aperture efficiency mostly larger than 60% with about 37 dBi realized gain between 71 and 86 GHz.

polyetherimide (PEI) fabrication

high-gain slot array antenna

corporate-feed network

71-86 GHz frequency band

Author

Peiye Liu

Shenglu Telecommunication Tech. Co., Ltd.

Jinlin Liu

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Weidong Hu

Beijing Institute of Technology

Xiaoming Chen

Xi'an Jiaotong University

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

1536-1225 (ISSN) 15485757 (eISSN)

Vol. 17 9 1635-1638 8419309

Subject Categories

Telecommunications

Communication Systems

Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

DOI

10.1109/LAWP.2018.2859582

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