The SWE Gapwave antenna - A new wideband thin planar antenna for 60GHz communications

Author

Jian Yang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Signals & Syst., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Gothenburg, Sweden

fYear

2013

fDate

8-12 April 2013

Firstpage

107

Lastpage

111

Abstract

The 60GHz short-range wireless communication system has gained a lot of attention because it can offer high rate data communications with the free-licensed band. Development of wideband, high gain, compact 60GHz antennas is a crucial issue in the system. We present a concept of a new wideband thin planar antenna, the Sheet Waveguide Element (SWE) antenna with gap waveguide technology, for 60GHz communication systems in the paper. This antenna can operate over a wideband with a very thin configuration and have a potential to have very low manufacture cost.

Keywords

broadband antennas; millimetre wave antenna arrays; planar antenna arrays; radio networks; substrate integrated waveguides; waveguide antenna arrays; SWE gapwave antenna; compact antenna development; free-licensed band; frequency 60 GHz; gap waveguide technology; high gain antenna development; high rate data communications; sheet waveguide element antenna; short-range wireless communication syst; wideband thin planar array antenna; Insertion loss; Planar arrays; Planar waveguides; Waveguide discontinuities; 60GHz communication; planar array antenna; wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2013 7th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Gothenburg

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2187-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-88-907018-1-8

Type

conf

Filename

6546226