학술논문

H-Band Substrate-Integrated Discrete-Lens Antenna for High Data Rate Communication Systems
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat. Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on. 69(7):3677-3688 Jul, 2021
Subject
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Aerospace
Transportation
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Resonators
Lenses
Antennas
Substrates
Scattering parameters
Reflection
Metals
Antenna-in-package (AiP)
discrete-lens antenna
millimeter-wave (mm-wave) antennas
transmitarray antenna
Language
ISSN
0018-926X
1558-2221
Abstract
A substrate-integrated discrete-lens antenna manufactured in standard printed-circuit-board (PCB) technology is demonstrated in $H$ -band (225–325 GHz). The arrays composed of phase-shifting unit cells and a waveguide-fed planar focal source are designed on a single PCB stack with five metal layers and multiple low-loss dielectric substrates in a monolithic module of $20\times 20\times4.52$ mm 3 . The linearly polarized unit cells are based on arc-shaped resonators placed between two perpendicular polarizing grids. They achieve eight transmission phase states with less than 1 dB average insertion loss and 27% 1 dB bandwidth. Two antenna prototypes with radiating apertures of $6.6\times6.6$ mm 2 and $10.56\times10.56$ mm 2 are designed, fabricated, and measured. They demonstrate linearly polarized pencil-beam radiation patterns with low sidelobes, low cross-polarization, an experimental gain of 20.6/23.1 dBi at 327/332 GHz, and 3 dB gain bandwidth of 26.3%/17.2%. The impact of manufacturing tolerances is detailed both at unit-cell level and antenna level.