Compact, highly efficient huygens antenna array with low sidelobe and backlobe levels

Lin, W; Ziolkowski, RW

Compact, highly efficient huygens antenna array with low sidelobe and backlobe levels

Lin, W

Ziolkowski, RW

Permalink

Publisher:: IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2021, 69, (10), pp. 6401-6409
Issue Date:: 2021-10-01

Open Access

Copyright Clearance Process

Recently Added
In Progress
Open Access

This item is open access.

Adobe PDF

Download Accepted versionAdobe PDF (2.57 MB)

View on publisher's site

View statistics

Full metadata record

Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Lin, W https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0337-8554
dc.contributor.author	Ziolkowski, RW
dc.date.accessioned	2022-04-06T22:30:10Z
dc.date.available	2022-04-06T22:30:10Z
dc.date.issued	2021-10-01
dc.identifier.citation	IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2021, 69, (10), pp. 6401-6409
dc.identifier.issn	0018-926X
dc.identifier.issn	1558-2221
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/155974
dc.description.abstract	An innovative Huygens antenna array is reported. It has a compact cross section and simultaneously exhibits high aperture and radiation efficiencies and low sidelobe level (SLL) and backlobe level. The fundamental system consists of a collinear 1 \times 4 magnetic dipole (MD) array unified with an in-phase collinear 1 \times 4 electric dipole (ED) array. The MD array is realized as TE0.5.0-mode SIW waveguide sections with seamlessly integrated phase inverters. The ED array is accomplished with two metal plates orthogonally connected to the waveguide aperture. Low sidelobes are realized, thanks to a natural magnitude taper of the fields radiated by each Huygens section located further from the waveguide center where its excitation resides. This fundamental array is easily expanded to a 4×,4 array facilitated by an amplitude-weighted 1-to-4 microstrip feed network. An X-band prototype operating at 10 GHz was fabricated and tested. The measured and simulated results are in very good agreement. The measured \vert \text{S}_{11} \vert bandwidth is 570 MHz from 9.63 to 10.2 GHz. The measured realized gain is stable across the entire bandwidth with a 17.5 dBi peak value. All measured SLL and backlobe levels are less than -20 dB. The measured realized aperture efficiency is 67.0% and the simulated radiation efficiency reaches 92%.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
dc.relation.ispartof	IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1109/TAP.2021.3061553
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject	0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 1005 Communications Technologies
dc.subject.classification	Networking & Telecommunications
dc.title	Compact, highly efficient huygens antenna array with low sidelobe and backlobe levels
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	69
utslib.for	0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
utslib.for	1005 Communications Technologies
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - GBDTC - Global Big Data Technologies
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Electrical and Data Engineering
utslib.copyright.status	open_access	*
dc.date.updated	2022-04-06T22:30:07Z
pubs.issue	10
pubs.publication-status	Published
pubs.volume	69
utslib.citation.issue	10

Abstract:

An innovative Huygens antenna array is reported. It has a compact cross section and simultaneously exhibits high aperture and radiation efficiencies and low sidelobe level (SLL) and backlobe level. The fundamental system consists of a collinear 1 \times 4 magnetic dipole (MD) array unified with an in-phase collinear 1 \times 4 electric dipole (ED) array. The MD array is realized as TE0.5.0-mode SIW waveguide sections with seamlessly integrated phase inverters. The ED array is accomplished with two metal plates orthogonally connected to the waveguide aperture. Low sidelobes are realized, thanks to a natural magnitude taper of the fields radiated by each Huygens section located further from the waveguide center where its excitation resides. This fundamental array is easily expanded to a 4×,4 array facilitated by an amplitude-weighted 1-to-4 microstrip feed network. An X-band prototype operating at 10 GHz was fabricated and tested. The measured and simulated results are in very good agreement. The measured \vert \text{S}_{11} \vert bandwidth is 570 MHz from 9.63 to 10.2 GHz. The measured realized gain is stable across the entire bandwidth with a 17.5 dBi peak value. All measured SLL and backlobe levels are less than -20 dB. The measured realized aperture efficiency is 67.0% and the simulated radiation efficiency reaches 92%.

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:

http://hdl.handle.net/10453/155974