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Low-sidelobe-level millimeter-wave asymmetric bull's eye antenna with minimal profile feeding

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2024

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IEEE
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Artículo / Artikulua
Versión aceptada / Onetsi den bertsioa

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AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/RTI2018-094475-B-I00/ES/

Abstract

Bull’s eye antennas exhibit remarkable directivity considering their low profile, albeit accompanied by high sidelobes. This undesirable radiation characteristic is tackled here by reporting a complementary split ring feeding whereby the broadside space-wave partially responsible for the high sidelobes is cancelled while the leaky wave is excited effectively. This feeding results in an asymmetric bull’s eye antenna with minimal profile (∼ 0.73λ0) and no protrusions on the radiating interface. The fabricated 10-period antenna operating in the Ka-band shows a directivity of 23.5 dBi, a sidelobe level of −22.9 dB (>6 dB improvement compared to other bull’s eye antennas) and a beamwidth of 3.7◦ and 6.7◦ in the E- and H-plane, respectively.

Keywords

Bull's eye antenna, Ka-band, Leaky-wave antenna, Millimeter waves

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Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y de Comunicación / Institute of Smart Cities - ISC / Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa, Elektronikoaren eta Telekomunikazio Ingeniaritzaren

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This work was supported in part by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) under Grant EP/S018395/1; and in part by the Spanish “Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MCIN)” and the Spanish “Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI)” under Grant MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/FEDER “Una manera de hacer Europa” through Project RTI2018-094475-B-I00. The work of M. Navarro-Cía was supported by the Royal Society under Grant RSG/R1/180040, and in part by the University of Birmingham [Birmingham Fellowship].

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