2000 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE.

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
Volume 48 Number 6, June 2000

Table of Contents for this issue

Complete paper in PDF format

Antenna Arrays in MCM-D Technology Fed by Coplanar CPW Networks

Ezzeldin A. Soliman, Steven Brebels, Guy A. E. Vandenbosch and Eric Beyne

Page 1065.

Abstract:

In this paper, the design, fabrication, and characterization of planar antenna arrays in the MCM-D technology are presented. The arrays are fed by coplanar feeding networks built using coplanar-waveguide lines. 2 × 2 and 4 × 4 arrays of slot dipoles designed to work in K -band, around 25 GHz, are also presented. The analysis was carried out both theoretically and experimentally. The results include the return loss, radiation patterns, and antenna gain. The proposed arrays are compatible with the driving electronics technology, enjoying high-impedance bandwidth, low cross polarization, high gain, and high radiation efficiency.

References

  1. H. Legay and L. Shafai, "A self-matching wide-band feed network for microstrip arrays", IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. 45, pp.  715-722,  Apr.  1997.
  2. P. S. Hall and C. M. Hall, "Coplanar corporate feed effects in microstrip patch array design", Proc. Inst. Elect. Eng., vol. 135, pp.  180-186, June  1988.
  3. E. A. Soliman, S. Brebels, G. A. E. Vandenbosch and E. Beyne, "X -band brick wall antenna fed by CPW", Electron. Lett., vol. 34, pp.  836-838,  Apr.  1998.
  4. H.-C. Liu, T.-S. Horng and N. G. Alexopoulos, "Radiation of printed antennas with a coplanar waveguide feed", IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. 43, pp.  1143-1148,  Oct.  1995.
  5. E. A. Soliman, P. Pieters, E. Beyne and G. A. E. Vandenbosch, "Suppression of the parasitic modes in CPW discontinuities using MCM-D technology-application to a novel 3-dB power splitter", IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech., vol. 46, pp.  2426-2430, Dec.  1998.
  6. G. A. E. Vandenbosch and A. R. Van de Capelle, "Use of subsectional edge expansion functions (SEEF's) to analyze rectangular microstrip antennas with the method of moments", Proc. Inst. Elect. Eng., vol. 139, pp.  159-164, Apr.  1992.
  7. E. Levine, "Special measurement techniques for printed antennas,"in Handbook of Microstrip Antennas, J. R. James, and P. S. Hall,Eds. Stevenage: U.K.: Peregrinus, 1989, ch. 16, p.  991.