Design of aperture-coupled microstrip patch antenna array fed by SIW for 60 GHz band

Tomas Mikulasek; Jaroslav Lacik; Jan Puskely; Zbynek Raida

Design of aperture-coupled microstrip patch antenna array fed by SIW for 60 GHz band

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Author(s): Tomas Mikulasek ¹ ; Jaroslav Lacik ¹ ; Jan Puskely ¹ ; Zbynek Raida ¹
- Affiliations: 1: Department of Radio Electronics, Brno University of Technology, Technicka 12, 616 00 Brno, Czech Republic
Source: Volume 10, Issue 3, 19 February 2016, p. 288 – 292
DOI: 10.1049/iet-map.2015.0296 , Print ISSN 1751-8725, Online ISSN 1751-8733

Received 28/04/2015, Accepted 27/09/2015, Revised 22/09/2015, Published 19/02/2016

This study deals with a design procedure and achieved parameters of a microstrip patch antenna array fed by a substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) operating at V-band. The antenna array consists of 6 × 8 microstrip patch antennas which are aperture coupled with an SIW-based feeding network. The antenna design is performed in a full-wave electromagnetic solver (ANSYS HFSS) for the operation frequency 60 GHz. The design procedure of the proposed antenna array comprises the analysis of an isolated radiating element, the synthesis of a linear array, and the development of an SIW-based power divider. At the operation frequency 60 GHz, a fabricated prototype has an impedance bandwidth of 1.8% for a reflection coefficient lower than −10 dB, a gain of 21.6 dBi, and a low sidelobe level below −23 dB in the E-plane and H-plane.

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