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2013-07-18
A Shaped-Beam Series-Fed Aperture-Coupled Stacked Patch Array Antenna
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Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 141, 291-307, 2013
Abstract
A shaped-beam series-fed aperture-coupled stacked patch array antenna at X-band is presented. To improve the array bandwidth, two-port aperture-coupled stacked patch antennas, which are suitable for the series-fed array configuration, are presented as the radiating elements. To offer the pattern design and optimization progresses more flexibility, a uniformly spaced array configuration is applied in the shaped-beam pattern design, instead of the conventional nonuniformly spaced array configuration. The experimental results show that, in a 7.6% bandwidth, the main beam shape of the array maintains in good agreement with the design goal, and the side lobe level maintains lower than -18 dB.
Citation
Lei Qiu, Sheng-Shui Wang, Hui-Ying Qi, Fei Zhao, Shun-Lian Chai, and Jun-Jie Mao, "A Shaped-Beam Series-Fed Aperture-Coupled Stacked Patch Array Antenna," Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 141, 291-307, 2013.
doi:10.2528/PIER13052808
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