Title :
A multi-beam cylindrical lens antenna composed of dielectric mixtures
Author :
Qiufang Jiang; Shiwen Yang; Hangyu Zhang; Zaiping Nie
Author_Institution :
School of Electronic Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731, China
Abstract :
A light-weighted and electrically large-sized multi-beam cylindrical dielectric lens antenna is presented in this paper. The lens antenna is fed by an arc array with 10 E-shaped patch antennas. The cylindrical lens is made of foam plastics with a dielectric constant of 1.1, and composed of three layers. A lot of holes are loaded in each layer of the foam plastics, and the holes are filled with nylon with a dielectric constant of 5.5. Simulation results show that the antenna can produce 10 narrow beams and the crossover of two adjacent beams occurs at the -3-dB level. The beams cover a wide scan angle of 120° in the azimuth range and the 3-dB beamwidth in the elevation plane is more than 70°.
Keywords :
"Adaptive arrays","Antenna feeds","Lenses","Indexes","Color"
Conference_Titel :
Communication Problem-Solving (ICCP), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6543-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICCPS.2015.7454097
