E-band 3-D metal printed wideband planar horn array antenna
Paper i proceeding, 2017

This paper presents a wideband and high efficiency corporate-fed horn array antenna in the E-band. A horn antenna is used as the unit cell of the array. The radiation pattern and grating lobe levels of the unit cell are improved by splitting the horn's aperture with a septum in the E-plane. A ridge gap waveguide corporate distribution network feeds the horns with the same amplitude and phase via coupling apertures. A prototype consisting of 4 × 4-element horn array antenna is manufactured by Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) 3D printing technique. The proposed antenna has a relative bandwidth of 24% with input reflection coefficient better than -10 dB and simulated total antenna efficiency better than 85% over the 69-88 GHz frequency band.

High efficiency

Horn array antenna

Millimeter-wave

Gap waveguide

3-D metal printing

Författare

Abbas Vosoogh

Chalmers, Signaler och system, Kommunikation, Antenner och Optiska Nätverk

Per-Simon Kildal

Chalmers, Signaler och system, Kommunikation, Antenner och Optiska Nätverk

Vessen Vassilev

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Mikrovågselektronik

Ashraf Uz Zaman

Chalmers, Signaler och system, Kommunikation, Antenner och Optiska Nätverk

S. Carlsson

Gapwaves AB

21st International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, ISAP 2016, Okinawa, Japan, 24-28 October 2016

304-305

Ämneskategorier

Elektroteknik och elektronik

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