Wideband switched beam patch antenna array

Author

Bhandare, Aniket ; Fernandes, Milind ; Desai, Chetan ; Lohani, Rajesh

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Telecommun., Goa Coll. of Eng., Farmagudi, India

fYear

2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

In this paper a switched beam 4×1 linear antenna array is presented with a 4×4 butler matrix feed. For wideband operation aperture coupled antenna elements are used in the array whereas wideband hybrid couplers and cross couplers are used in the butler matrix feed. Design and simulation was carried out in IE3D® software, considering a Rogers RO3006 substrate. The array is designed to cover LTE bands at 2.3 & 2.6 GHz as well as the 2.4 GHz ISM band. The performance parameters from simulation are presented and analyzed. A total of 1:1.43 VSWR, bandwidth of 520 MHz is obtained with gain of 11 dB, directivity of ~12.5 dBi and efficiency greater than 70%. The radiation beam directions in azimuth are obtained at +15°, -15°, +45° and -45° for respective input port.

Keywords

Long Term Evolution; adaptive antenna arrays; antenna radiation patterns; broadband antennas; linear antenna arrays; matrix algebra; microstrip antenna arrays; microstrip couplers; 4×4 butler matrix feed; IE3D® software; ISM band; LTE bands; Rogers RO3006 substrate; bandwidth 520 MHz; cross couplers; frequency 2.3 GHz to 2.6 GHz; gain 11 dB; radiation beam directions; wideband hybrid couplers; wideband operation aperture coupled antenna elements; wideband switched beam linear patch antenna array; Aperture coupled antennas; Arrays; Broadband antennas; Butler matrices; Feeds; Microstrip antennas; Wideband; Aperture coupled antenna; Beamforming; Butler matrix; LTE; Smart antenna system; Switched beam; Wi-Fi;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Bhubaneswar

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3266-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AEMC.2013.7045020

Filename

7045020