A novel feeding technique for Ka-band horn antenna

Author

Othman, A. ; Ain, M.F. ; Hassan, S.I.S. ; Sulaiman, A.A. ; Othman, M.A. ; Hamid, M. H A ; Majid, R.A. ; Saidin, M.Z. ; Ismail, M.N. ; Jaffar, M.R.

Author_Institution

Commun. Group, Univ. Sains Malaysia, Seberang Perai Selatan, Malaysia

fYear

2010

fDate

1-3 March 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A practical horn antenna feeding configuration for use at Ka-band frequencies is proposed. It is consists of five circular identical cylindrical parasitic dielectric resonator (DR) fed by a microstrip feedline through a coupling rectangular slot in the ground plane between them. It is designed to parasitic type for high gain, high isolation and wideband characteristics. The bandwidth enhancement is achieved for the HEM_11Â¿ mode with the parasitic resonators superimposed on driven DR. Excellent return loss and radiation characteristics of DR in HEM_11Â¿ were observed. CST simulation results of the electrical performance for pyramidal horn antenna operating at 38GHz are presented.

Keywords

antenna feeds; antenna radiation patterns; dielectric resonators; horn antennas; microstrip lines; slot antennas; Ka-band frequency; Ka-band horn antenna; bandwidth enhancement; circular identical cylindrical parasitic dielectric resonator; coupling rectangular slot; electrical performance; frequency 38 GHz; high gain characteristics; high isolation characteristics; horn antenna feeding; microstrip feedline; pyramidal horn antenna; radiation characteristics; return loss; wideband characteristics; Antenna feeds; Aperture antennas; Aperture coupled antennas; Bandwidth; Broadband antennas; Dielectric losses; Dielectric resonator antennas; Electromagnetic waveguides; Frequency; Horn antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antenna Technology (iWAT), 2010 International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4883-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4885-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWAT.2010.5464744

Filename

5464744