A millimeter tapered slot antenna fed by SIW with broadband and high gain

Author

Xue-Xia Yang ; Ye-Qing Wang ; Guan-Nan Tan

Author_Institution

Sch. of Commun. & Inf. Eng., Shanghai Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2013

fDate

9-11 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

A tapered slot antenna (TSA) operates at Ka band with high gain and broadband is designed in this paper. The TSA is printed on two side of the substrate. A SIW transformer between the microstrip feedline and the TSA is applied to minimize the feedline losses for forming antenna arrays. The simulated bandwidth of the reflection coefficient less than -10dB is 26GHz from 25GHz to 51GHz. The front-back ratio is 15dB and the half power beam width is 60°. This prototype is fabricated and measured to verify this design. It is easy for this antenna element to be expended to array and applied in millimeter wave power transmission and imaging.

Keywords

microstrip antenna arrays; millimetre wave imaging; slot antenna arrays; substrate integrated waveguides; Ka band; SIW transformer; TSA; antenna arrays; antenna element; bandwidth 25 GHz to 51 GHz; bandwidth 26 GHz; broadband; feedline losses; front-back ratio; half power beam width; high gain; microstrip feedline; millimeter tapered slot antenna; millimeter wave imaging; millimeter wave power transmission; reflection coefficient; simulated bandwidth; substrate; Antenna arrays; Biomedical measurement; Broadband antennas; Broadband communication; Microwave antennas; Microwave circuits; Slot antennas; Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW); Tapered slot antennas (TSAs); broadband; high gain;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Workshop Series on RF and Wireless Technologies for Biomedical and Healthcare Applications (IMWS-BIO), 2013 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Singapore

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMWS-BIO.2013.6756227

Filename

6756227