{"title":"Wideband Slot Antenna Array With Stable Low-Sidelobe Performance","authors":"Fengyuan Zhang;Hanlin Zhang;Qingchun You;Jifu Huang","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2025.3532116","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This letter presents a dispersion compensation method that integrates a comb-shaped slow-wave structure with a defected ground structure to achieve wideband low-sidelobe performance. This method effectively ensures phase balance within the feed network, achieving a stable low-sidelobe level over a wide frequency range. A prototype planar array antenna operating in the 21.6 GHz to 30.8 GHz range was designed, fabricated, and measured. The experimental results demonstrate that the antenna achieves a fractional bandwidth of 35.1%, with the first sidelobe level maintained below −21 dB across the entire band and a fluctuation confined within ±1.3 dB.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"24 5","pages":"1248-1252"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10848206/","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This letter presents a dispersion compensation method that integrates a comb-shaped slow-wave structure with a defected ground structure to achieve wideband low-sidelobe performance. This method effectively ensures phase balance within the feed network, achieving a stable low-sidelobe level over a wide frequency range. A prototype planar array antenna operating in the 21.6 GHz to 30.8 GHz range was designed, fabricated, and measured. The experimental results demonstrate that the antenna achieves a fractional bandwidth of 35.1%, with the first sidelobe level maintained below −21 dB across the entire band and a fluctuation confined within ±1.3 dB.
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IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (AWP Letters) is devoted to the rapid electronic publication of short manuscripts in the technical areas of Antennas and Wireless Propagation. These are areas of competence for the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S). AWPL aims to be one of the "fastest" journals among IEEE publications. This means that for papers that are eventually accepted, it is intended that an author may expect his or her paper to appear in IEEE Xplore, on average, around two months after submission.