C. E. Santosa, J. Sumantyo, K. Urata, M. Chua, K. Ito, S. Gao
{"title":"Development of a Low Profile Wide-Bandwidth Circularly Polarized Microstrip Antenna for C-Band Airborne CP-SAR Sensor","authors":"C. E. Santosa, J. Sumantyo, K. Urata, M. Chua, K. Ito, S. Gao","doi":"10.2528/PIERC17110901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2528/PIERC17110901","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a low-profile wide bandwidth circularly polarized microstrip antenna is \u0000proposed as element for a C-band airborne circularly polarized synthetic aperture radar sensor. Several \u0000bandwidth improvement techniques were proposed and implemented. In order to increase impedance \u0000bandwidth, the antenna is constructed using double-stacked substrate with low dielectric constant, \u0000modified radiating shape for multi-resonant frequency, and a circle-slotted parasitic patch. Generation \u0000of the circularly polarized wave employs a simple square patch with curve corner-truncation as radiating \u0000element. The asymmetric position of the feeding is attempted to improve the axial-ratio bandwidth. \u0000To avoid a complicated feed network, the antenna is fed by single-feed proximity-coupled microstrip \u0000line. The effect of copper-covering on the upper layer for decrease undesired radiation wave emitted by \u0000the feeding is also studied and presented. Measurement results show that the impedance bandwidth \u0000and axial ratio bandwidth are 20.9% (1,100 MHz) and 4.7% (250 MHz), respectively. Meanwhile the \u0000measured gain is 7 dBic at the frequency of 5.3 GHz.","PeriodicalId":20699,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Electromagnetics Research C","volume":"81 1","pages":"77-88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2528/PIERC17110901","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41401271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design and Performance Analysis of Millimetre-Wave Rotman Lens-Based Array Beamforming Networks for Large-Scale Antenna Subsystems","authors":"A. Rahimian, Y. Alfadhl, A. Alomainy","doi":"10.2528/PIERC17071703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2528/PIERC17071703","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the comprehensive analytical design and numerical performance evaluation of novel millimetre-wave (mm-wave) switched-beam networks, based on the Rotman lens (RL) array feeding concept. These passive array devices have been designed for operation in the 28GHz frequency band, covering the whole 18–38 GHz frequency range. The primary objective of the work is to conduct a thorough feasibility study of designing wideband mm-wave beamformers based on liquid-crystal polymer (LCP) substrates, to be potentially employed as low-cost and high-performance subsystems for the advanced transceiver units and large-scale antennas. The presented RLs exhibit significant output behaviours for electronic beam steering, in terms of the scattering (S) parameters, phase characteristics, and surface current distributions, as the feeding systems’ primary functionality indicators.","PeriodicalId":20699,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Electromagnetics Research C","volume":"78 1","pages":"159-171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2528/PIERC17071703","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47808788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A 2.45 GHz ISM Band CPW Rectenna for Low Power Levels","authors":"J. Rivière, A. Douyère, S. Oree, A. Luk","doi":"10.2528/PIERC17070401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2528/PIERC17070401","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the design and fabrication of a coplanar waveguide (CPW) rectenna using a sequential modular approach. The rectenna is printed on high permittivity, low-loss board ARLON AD1000 (r = 10.35 and tan δ = 0.0023 @ 10 GHz). The rectifier section is realized with a single reverse-biased schottky diode SMS-7630 in reverse topology for which a diode model is obtained at −20 dBm for frequencies F 0 = 2.45 GHz and 2F 0 = 4.9 GHz. The low-pass filter and the impedance matching are synthesized from passive CPW structures. Co-simulation technique is used to overcome CPW simulation limitations and to integrate the diode characteristics. The antenna consists of a circular slot loop antenna with stub matching such that its input impedance is close to 50 Ω. The goal of this work is to design a rectifier to simplify and speed up the fabrication process of a rectenna array. We reduced the number of processes to etch the rectifier on the board and minimized the number of lumped elements. At −20 dBm, simulation of the rectifier with an ideal impedance matching network shows rectification at 2.45 GHz with efficiency of 12.8%. The rectifier and rectenna show efficiency of approximately 10% at an operating frequency of 2.48 GHz.","PeriodicalId":20699,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Electromagnetics Research C","volume":"77 1","pages":"101-110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2528/PIERC17070401","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47337911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wideband Metamaterial Solar Cell Antenna for 5 GHz Wi-Fi Communication","authors":"M. Elsdon, O. Yurduseven, X. Dai","doi":"10.2528/PIERC16110302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2528/PIERC16110302","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a novel design for a wideband integrated photovoltaic (PV) solar cell patch antenna for 5 GHz Wi-Fi communication is presented and discussed. The design consists of a slot loaded patch antenna with an array of complimentary split ring resonators (cSRR) etched in the ground plane. This is then integrated with a solar cell element placed above the patch, where the ground plane of the solar cell acts as a stacked antenna element from an RF perspective. The design is simulated on CST Microwave Studio and fabricated. The results indicate that an impedance bandwidth of 1 GHz is achieved to cover the 5 GHz Wi-Fi band with a gain of between 7.73 dBi and 8.18 dBi across this band. It is also demonstrated that size reduction of up to 25% can be achieved. Moreover, it is noted that using a metamaterial loaded ground plane acts as an impedance transformer, therefore the antenna can be fed directly with a 50 Ω microstrip feed line, hence further reducing the overall size.","PeriodicalId":20699,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Electromagnetics Research C","volume":"71 1","pages":"123-131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2528/PIERC16110302","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47767460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}