Design and Performance Evaluation of a Compact Beam-Tilted Circularly Polarized Slotted Waveguide Antenna

Publisher:
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Publication Type:
Conference Proceeding
Citation:
2022 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, AP-S/URSI 2022 - Proceedings, 2022, 00, pp. 1226-1227
Issue Date:
2022-01-01
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This paper presents design configuration and performance analysis of a compact and thin beam-tilted circularly polarised (CP) radial line slot array (RLSA) waveguide antenna. In conventional CP RLSA beam-tilting method, the aperture efficiency degrades significantly due to sparsely distributed slots throughout the aperture. In this paper, we have presented a new design configuration by utilizing the most effective aperture of the antenna, and eliminating the least effective area. Using this method, an antenna was designed at 18 GHz with a beam tilt angle of 30° and a total aperture of 10λ0. The antenna has demonstrated a directivity of 25.9 dBic and a realized gain of 25.6 dBic at 18 GHz with a tilt angle of 30°. The far-field radiation pattern has shown a side lobe level of less than-21 dB.
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