A slotted waveguide planar array antenna for entrance radio system in mobile communication

Author

Sakakibara, Kunio ; Hirokawa, Jiro ; Ando, Makoto ; Goto, Naohisa

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Japan

fYear

1995

Firstpage

373

Lastpage

376

Abstract

A novel slotted waveguide array antenna using a single layer feed circuit is proposed for entrance radio systems in mobile communication. It consists of two components, that is, a slot plate and a base one and the total thickness is only about 1 cm. Such a thin antenna harmonizes with small and slender base station antennas and will find wide applicability for relatively small buildings. The test antenna has antenna efficiency 62% and covers 600 MHz frequency bandwidth in the 22 GHz band with 33 dBi of gain. A single layer slotted waveguide array is a candidate for a low cost, high gain and efficiency antenna in such a high frequency band

Keywords

antenna feeds; antenna testing; cellular radio; land mobile radio; slot antenna arrays; 22 GHz; 33 dB; 600 MHz; 62 percent; bandwidth; base plate; base station antenna; efficiency; entrance radio system; gain; mobile communication; single layer feed circuit; slot plate; slotted waveguide planar array antenna; small buildings; total thickness; Antenna arrays; Antenna feeds; Base stations; Circuits; Frequency; Mobile antennas; Mobile communication; Planar arrays; Planar waveguides; Slot antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Universal Personal Communications. 1995. Record., 1995 Fourth IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2955-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUPC.1995.496924

Filename

496924