A Microwave/Millimeter Wave Dual-Band Shared Aperture Patch Antenna Array

• Main Authors: Zongxin Wang, Zeqin Huang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
• Series: IEEE Access
• Subjects: Dual frequency band; shared aperture; microstrip antenna array
• Online Access: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9269004/

This paper describes the design of microwave/millimeter wave dual-band patch antenna array with shared aperture. The antenna array is designed of stack structure of three printed circuit boards. The Ka-band patches are fed directly with microstrip lines of the Ka-band power divider network and the E-band patches are coupling fed by the E-band power divider network through slots cut in the antenna ground. An antenna unit is studied, fabricated and measured firstly to verify the feasibility of the shared aperture structure. Finally, a shared aperture antenna array consists of a 2 × 4 Ka-band array and an 8 × 16 E-band array is designed based on the antenna unit. The E-band and the Ka-band feeding network are carefully designed to reduce the reflections, and the Ka-band feeding network combines series feed and parallel feed in order to save space. The shared aperture antenna array is fabricated and measured, and the results are presented. In order to measure the E-band array, the main port of the E-band power divider is connected to a standard WR12 waveguide through an antipodal fin-line waveguide to microstrip transition.