Design of a 60GHz RLSA for compact range applications

Author

Tung Nguyen ; Hirokawa, Jiro ; Ando, Makoto ; Castaner, Manuel Sierra

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2014

fDate

2-5 Dec. 2014

Firstpage

219

Lastpage

220

Abstract

The design of a 60GHz Radial Line Slot Antenna (RLSA) for compact range communications is discussed in this paper. A taper window was investigated and applied for a uniformly illuminated circular aperture in order to create a uniform field in a specified receiving zone. Predicted results show a good uniformity up to a few meters in the propagation distance, and on a receiving horizontal plane as large as the antenna aperture. A 20cm diameter RLSA prototype was fabricated based on the proposed taper design, and its measured results partly support our predictions.

Keywords

aperture antennas; design engineering; millimetre wave antennas; millimetre wave propagation; radio networks; slot antennas; RLSA prototype; compact range communications; frequency 60 GHz; high speed wireless communications; propagation distance; radial line slot antenna; receiving horizontal plane; receiving zone; taper aperture illumination; taper design; taper window; uniformly illuminated circular aperture; Aperture antennas; Lighting; Logic gates; Slot antennas; Wireless communication; compact range applications; mm-wave; radial line slot antenna; taper aperture illumination;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (ISAP), 2014 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kaohsiung

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISANP.2014.7026609

Filename

7026609