A Novel Multi-Beam Lens Antenna for High Altitude Platform Communications

Author

Cai Run-nan ; Yang Ming-chuan ; Zhang Xing-qi ; Li Ming ; Liu Xiao-feng

Author_Institution

Commun. Res. Center, Harbin Inst. of Technol., Harbin, China

fYear

2012

fDate

6-9 May 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Waveguide-form multi-beam lens antenna has several shortcomings, such like large size and weight of feed source. According to such situation, a lens antenna applied to high altitude platform is designed. The proposed antenna uses printed Yagi-Uda antenna as feed unit and applies CST MICROWAVE STUDIO® electromagnetic simulation software to analyze. The proposed antenna is manufactured and tested in microwave anechoic chamber. And the simulated and experimental results show that frequency range of the proposed antenna is from 1.77GHz to 2.44GHz with reflection coefficient less than -10dB, relative bandwidth is 31.8%. Antenna gain at 2.1GHz is 9.3dB, which basically accords with the simulated result. Finally, a multi-beam lens antenna fed independently with 6 printed Yagi-Uda antenna units is designed. The proposed antenna has characteristics of wide band, high gain, small volume and light weight. Thus it can be applied in the future high altitude platform communication system.

Keywords

UHF antennas; Yagi antenna arrays; anechoic chambers (electromagnetic); antenna feeds; lens antennas; microstrip antennas; CST Microwave Studio electromagnetic simulation software; antenna gain; feed source; feed unit; frequency 1.77 GHz to 2.44 GHz; high altitude platform communications; microwave anechoic chamber; printed Yagi-Uda antenna; reflection coefficient; waveguide-form multibeam lens antenna; Antenna feeds; Antenna radiation patterns; Dielectrics; Dipole antennas; Lenses;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), 2012 IEEE 75th

Conference_Location

Yokohama

ISSN

1550-2252

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0989-9

Electronic_ISBN

1550-2252

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2012.6239876

Filename

6239876