A High-Efficiency Circularly-Polarized Aperture Array Antenna with a Corporate-Feed Circuit in the 60 GHz Band

作者:Miura Yohei*; Hirokawa Jiro; Ando Makoto; Igarashi Kazufumi; Yoshida Goro
来源:IEICE - Transactions on Electronics, 2011, E94C(10): 1618-1625.
DOI:10.1587/transele.E94.C.1618

摘要

A circularly-polarized planar array antenna using hexagonal aperture elements is proposed. A 2 x 2-element subarray as the basic unit is excited by a corporate-feed circuit located in the lower layer of the double-layered antenna. The hexagonal aperture is designed to achieve a good axial ratio in the boresight. A 16 x 16-element array antenna with uniform element spacing smaller than the free-space wavelength was fabricated by diffusion bonding of laminated thin metal plates for the 60 GHz-band. The high gain of 33.4 dBic is measured with 91.6% antenna efficiency, including losses.

  • 出版日期2011-10