A broad beam-width microstrip cross antenna design for wide scan angle phased array

Author

Zhao Wang ; Dongmei Dan ; Shaoqiu Xiao ; Mingchun Tang

Author_Institution

Inst. of Appl. Phys., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu, China

fYear

2013

fDate

9-11 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

A wide bandwidth, broad beam-width microstrip antenna element is reported for active phased array application. The antenna element offers a return loss better than -10dB over a bandwidth of 24.82% in Ku-band with beam-widths of 134° in H-plane and 126° in E-plane, respectively. The antenna is capable of realizing two orthogonal linear polarizations and a circular polarization respectively when different feeding approaches are utilized. Moreover, the wide-angle scanning characteristic of the 8×8 array composed of proposed element is evaluated. Besides, the microstrip steerable antenna array can be easily embedded into wearable medical or commercial devices.

Keywords

biomedical communication; broadband antennas; microstrip antenna arrays; polarisation; Ku-band; broad beam-width microstrip cross antenna array; circular polarization; orthogonal linear polarizations; wearable medical devices; wide scan angle phased array; Antenna radiation patterns; Arrays; Bandwidth; Microstrip; Microstrip antenna arrays; Microstrip antennas; Phased arrays; broad beam-width; medical devices; microstrip antenna; phased array;

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.2013.6756220

Filename

6756220