{"title":"Septum-less, hexagonal waveguide based circularly polarized horn antenna for mm-wave and terahertz band","authors":"S. Bhardwaj, J. Volakis","doi":"10.1109/IWAT.2017.7915324","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"T Traditional circularly polarized (CP) horn antennas use a septum (or a partition) based feed, which is difficult to fabricate beyond 60 GHz. As an alternative, here we propose hexagonal waveguide based CP antenna design that is fabrication friendly and low-cost. Design, fabrication and characterization is shown for an F-band prototype. The prototype exhibits 18 dBi mid-band gain with three dB axial-ratio (AR) bandwidth beyond thirty percent.","PeriodicalId":289886,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Workshop on Antenna Technology: Small Antennas, Innovative Structures, and Applications (iWAT)","volume":"143 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2017 International Workshop on Antenna Technology: Small Antennas, Innovative Structures, and Applications (iWAT)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWAT.2017.7915324","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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T Traditional circularly polarized (CP) horn antennas use a septum (or a partition) based feed, which is difficult to fabricate beyond 60 GHz. As an alternative, here we propose hexagonal waveguide based CP antenna design that is fabrication friendly and low-cost. Design, fabrication and characterization is shown for an F-band prototype. The prototype exhibits 18 dBi mid-band gain with three dB axial-ratio (AR) bandwidth beyond thirty percent.