Design of millimeter-wave conformal microstrip antenna arrays

Author

Liu, Min ; Fu, Jia-Hui ; Feng, Zi-Rui ; Wu, Qun

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Harbin Inst. of Technol., Harbin

fYear

2008

fDate

16-20 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The work presents a design of millimeter-wave conformal microstrip antenna arrays. Based on the HFM and the parallel feed network, two conformal microstrip 4x4 arrays respectively on a cylinder and an elliptic cylinder surface are designed by the isotropic transformation theory (IT). Simulation results show that the conformal arrays work at 35 GHz and the gains are 20.43 dB and 20.61 dB at the center frequency respectively. This kind of conformal microstrip antenna array due to the lightweight, low profile, low cost, integrability with microwave circuitry and simple manufacturing is an attractive choice among different other microwave circuits and systems such as wireless systems, satellite communications and radars and so on .

Keywords

antenna feeds; microstrip antenna arrays; millimetre wave antenna arrays; elliptic cylinder surface; frequency 35 GHz; gain 20.43 dB; gain 20.61 dB; isotropic transformation theory; microwave circuitry; millimeter-wave conformal microstrip antenna arrays; parallel feed network; radars; satellite communications; wireless systems; Circuit simulation; Costs; Feeds; Frequency; Gain; Microstrip antenna arrays; Microstrip antennas; Microwave antenna arrays; Optical arrays; Satellite antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2008. APMC 2008. Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Macau

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2641-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2642-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APMC.2008.4957953

Filename

4957953