Design of a wide-angle scanning tightly coupled dipole array element

Lu Jiaojun; Wu Hongchao

doi:10.11884/HPLPB201931.190158

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Lu Jiaojun, Wu Hongchao. Design of a wide-angle scanning tightly coupled dipole array element[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams, 2019, 31: 113202. doi: 10.11884/HPLPB201931.190158

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Lu Jiaojun, Wu Hongchao. Design of a wide-angle scanning tightly coupled dipole array element[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams, 2019, 31: 113202. doi: 10.11884/HPLPB201931.190158

Lu Jiaojun, Wu Hongchao. Design of a wide-angle scanning tightly coupled dipole array element[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams, 2019, 31: 113202. doi: 10.11884/HPLPB201931.190158

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Lu Jiaojun, Wu Hongchao. Design of a wide-angle scanning tightly coupled dipole array element[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams, 2019, 31: 113202. doi: 10.11884/HPLPB201931.190158

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Design of a wide-angle scanning tightly coupled dipole array element

doi: 10.11884/HPLPB201931.190158

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Wu Hongchao^{1, 2
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Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology, Nanjing 210039, China
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Science and Technology on Antennas and Microwave Lab, Nanjing 210039, China

Received Date: 2019-05-13
Rev Recd Date: 2019-08-12
Publish Date: 2019-11-15

Abstract

Abstract

The paper proposes a novel tightly coupled dipole array antenna element design, and combines the equivalent circuit to analyze and optimize antenna parameters. The design introduces frequency selective surface placed above the antenna aperture to replace the traditional dielectric superstrate for wideband and wide-angle impedance matching. The balun employs microstrip to coplanar parallel two-wire transition structure to achieve balanced feed and impedance transformation. A prototype is simulated and the results show that the design provides a 3∶1 (from 2 GHz to 6 GHz) bandwidth while scanning to 80° in E-plane and scanning to 45° in H-plane, with an active VSWR < 3. Besides, the cross-polarization isolation of the array at broadside is kept at 25 dB, but the antenna gain is reduced due to the loss of the resistive FSS. The antenna has a simple and compact structure, easy to fabricate, thus realizes miniaturization of a tightly coupled array.
- tightly coupled dipole array,
- wide band,
- wide-angle scanning,
- frequency selective surface,
- impedance matching

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