Paper Info
Title
mm-Wave High Gain Cavity-Backed Aperture-Coupled Patch Antenna Array.
Abstract
A wideband and high gain cavity-backed 4 x 4 patch antenna array is proposed in this paper. Each patch antenna element of the array is enclosed by a rectangular cavity and differentially-fed by the slot underneath. By optimizing the geometry of the radiating patch and the cavity, a very uniform E-field distribution at the antenna aperture is achieved, leading to the high array aperture efficiency and thus the gain. Taking advantages of the higher-order substrate integrated cavity excitation, the elements of the array are efficiently fed with the same amplitude and phase in a simplified feeding mechanism instead of the conventional bulky and lossy power-splitter-based feeding network. Measured results show the antenna bandwidth is from 56 to 63.1-GHz (16.1%) with the peak gain reaching 21.4 dBi. The radiation patterns of the array are very stable over the entire frequency band and the cross-polarizations are as low as -30 dB. These good characteristics demonstrate that the proposed array can be a good candidate for the future 60-GHz communication system applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2859835
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
Field
DocType
mm-wave,cavity-backed,aperture coupled,substrate integrated waveguide,array antenna,higher order mode
Aperture,Wideband,Patch antenna,Frequency band,Computer science,Optics,Communications system,Amplitude,Antenna aperture,Radiation,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6
2169-3536
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jianfeng Zhu1217.02
Chen-Hao Chu200.34
Li Deng333.26
Chen Zhang411241.68
Yang Yang54111.18
Shufang Li638026.80