Title :
Leaky wave antenna with non-uniform CRLH transmission line for wide range space field coverage in mobile communication system
Author :
Haijian Hou ; Junhong Wang ; Zheng Li
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Lightwave Technol., Beijing Jiaotong Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
Leaky wave antenna with uniform composite right and left hand (CRLH) transmission line (TL) structure is not suitable for field coverage in wide range space for its high directivity and narrow beam-width. This paper proposed a new kind of leaky wave antennas with non-uniform CRLH TL structure. The propagation constant along the structure varies with the non-uniform parameters, so that the radiation pattern of the leaky wave antenna can be broadened. Two kinds of structures of non-uniform CRLH TLs were studied, and the radiation characteristics of the leaky wave antennas composed of these structures are given.
Keywords :
antenna radiation patterns; leaky wave antennas; mobile antennas; mobile radio; CRLH TL structure; composite right and left hand transmission line; directivity; field coverage; leaky wave antenna; mobile communication system; narrow beam-width; nonuniform CRLH TL structure; nonuniform CRLH transmission line; radiation characteristics; radiation pattern; wide range space field coverage; Antenna radiation patterns; Capacitors; Integrated circuit modeling; Leaky wave antennas; MIM capacitors; Propagation constant; Broad beam width; Composite right/left hand; Leaky wave antenna; Transmission line;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Technology & Computational Electromagnetics (ICMTCE), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Qingdao
DOI :
10.1109/ICMTCE.2013.6812414
