60 GHz microstrip-fed high gain dielectric lens antenna

Author

Briqech, Zouhair ; Sebak, Abdel R.

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Concordia Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada

fYear

2012

fDate

April 29 2012-May 2 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A high-gain, low-cost millimeter-wave hybrid antenna is presented. The designed antenna consists of a dielectric spherical lens with low dielectric constant fed with microstrip patch antenna. The design parameters for achieving optimal operation of the proposed hybrid antenna are analyzed extensively in order to understand the antenna operation and improve its performance and characteristics. The impedance bandwidth of the prototype is ~6.7%. A high gain of 21.7dB is achieved at 60 GHz using a 2 cm diameter dielectric lens. The proposed antenna is suitable for unlicensed millimeter-wave ISM-band applications.

Keywords

lens antennas; microstrip antennas; millimetre wave antennas; design parameters; dielectric spherical lens; high-gain low-cost millimeter-wave hybrid antenna; impedance bandwidth; low dielectric constant; microstrip patch antenna; microstrip-fed high gain dielectric lens antenna; millimeter-wave ISM-band applications; Dielectrics; Gain; Lenses; Microstrip; Microstrip antennas; Millimeter wave communication; 60 GHz; Dielectric lens antenna; Lens antenna; Millimeter-wave antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical & Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2012 25th IEEE Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Montreal, QC

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1431-2

Electronic_ISBN

0840-7789

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2012.6334821

Filename

6334821