• Title of article

    Design of Rotman Lens Antenna at Ku-Band Based on Substrate Integrated Technology

  • Author/Authors

    Hosseini، S. A. R. نويسنده Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran , , Firouzeh ، Z. H. نويسنده Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran , , Maddahali، M. نويسنده Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran ,

  • Issue Information
    فصلنامه با شماره پیاپی 6 سال 2014
  • Pages
    12
  • From page
    33
  • To page
    44
  • Abstract
    In this research work, a multibeam antenna which is a combination of a beamformer network (BFN) and a linear array antenna, has been designed. A Rotman lens has been chosen as beamformer network and Vivaldi antennas have been selected for constructing array antenna. The Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) was used for implementing Rotman lens. After explanation the structure of Substrate integrated waveguide, a prototype SIW Rotman lens was designed to create 7 beams at angles of 0°, ±10°, ±20° and ±30°. Each beam is corresponding to one of the input port of Rotman lens. This Rotman lens was designed for aeronautical applications and operates at center frequency of 16 GHz and frequency bandwidth of 1 GHz. It was found that the amplitude and phase distributions at output ports of Rotman lens are appropriate. Then a linear array of 7 Vivaldi antennas was connected to the Rotman lens to realize the multibeam Rotman lens antenna.
  • Journal title
    Journal of Communication Engineering
  • Serial Year
    2014
  • Journal title
    Journal of Communication Engineering
  • Record number

    2220247