A high gain active antenna array using dual-fed distributed amplifier-based CRLH-leaky wave antennas

Author

Wu, Chung-Tse Michael ; Itoh, Takayuki

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

4-7 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

136

Lastpage

138

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel high gain active antenna array using dual-fed distributed amplifier (DA)-based composite right/left-handed (CRLH) leaky wave antennas (LWAs). Operating around 2.4GHz ISM-band, the active antenna array can achieve 16dBi gain at maximum, which has around 7dB gain increase compared with the single element dual-fed DA-based active antenna. The proposed active antenna array is also capable of beam-scanning, with respect to the frequency of the pass band of the antenna.

Keywords

UHF antennas; active antenna arrays; antenna feeds; band-pass filters; distributed amplifiers; leaky wave antennas; transmission lines; DA-based composite right-left-handed LWA; DA-based composite right/left-handed leaky wave antennas; ISM-band; antenna pass band; beam-scanning; dual-fed distributed amplifier-based CRLH-leaky wave antennas; frequency 2.4 GHz; high gain active antenna array; single element dual-fed DA-based active antenna; Antenna arrays; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Arrays; Distributed amplifiers; Frequency measurement; Active antennas; CRLH-transmission lines; distributed amplifiers; leaky wave antennas; spatial power combining;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference Proceedings (APMC), 2012 Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Kaohsiung

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1330-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-1331-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APMC.2012.6421524

Filename

6421524