High-Efficiency 60-GHz Printed Yagi Antenna Array

Author

Briqech, Zouhair ; Sebak, Abdel Razik ; Denidni, Tayeb A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Concordia Univ., Montréal, QC, Canada

Volume

12

fYear

2013

fDate

2013

Firstpage

1224

Lastpage

1227

Abstract

A low-cost and highly efficient printed Yagi antenna structure with high radiation efficiency is presented. The proposed prototype consists of two stacked planar layers. The first layer electromagnetically couples energy to the printed Yagi array parasitic elements located on the second layer. A reduced-size 60-GHz prototype (1.0687 × 0.8015 cm²) is designed to operate over the Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM) band. The measured impedance bandwidth is more than 5 GHz with a gain of 10 dB measured at 60 GHz. With these features, this antenna achieves a low profile that makes it suitable for millimeter-wave monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) packaging as well as for short-range wireless communications and imaging applications.

Keywords

MMIC; Yagi antenna arrays; antenna radiation patterns; electric impedance; microstrip antenna arrays; millimetre wave antenna arrays; planar antenna arrays; ISM band; Industrial Scientific and Medical band; MMIC packaging; electromagnetically couple energy; frequency 60 GHz; high radiation efficiency; high-efficiency printed Yagi antenna array; imaging application; impedance bandwidth measurement; millimeter-wave monolithic microwave integrated circuit packaging; parasitic element; short-range wireless communication; stacked planar layer; Antenna radiation patterns; Arrays; Bandwidth; Microstrip antenna arrays; Microstrip antennas; Microstrip antennas; Yagi–Uda arrays; millimeter-wave antennas; parasitic antennas;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1225

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LAWP.2013.2283199

Filename

6607164