{"title":"Design of Cylindrical Conformal Array Antenna based on Microstrip Patch Unit","authors":"Tianming Bai, Di Jiang, Shan Luo, K. Zhu","doi":"10.47037/2021.aces.j.360809","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"─ Based on microstrip patch antenna, a cylindrical conformal 8×8 array antenna is designed, which uses a T-shaped power divider to realize 64 feed channels. The simulation results show that the peak gain of planar array antenna can reach 24.8dB, while the peak gain of cylindrical conformal antenna decreases by 1.2dB and 1.7dB in phi=0° and phi=90° respectively. And the main beam direction deflects by 0° and 4° respectively. The measurement results show that the performance of the processed object is close to the simulation. After conformal with cylinder, the peak gain is 23.5dB, and the beam deflection is 4°, which verifies the feasibility of the designed cylindrical conformal array antenna. Index Terms ─ Array antenna, conformal, microstrip patch.","PeriodicalId":8207,"journal":{"name":"Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.47037/2021.aces.j.360809","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
─ Based on microstrip patch antenna, a cylindrical conformal 8×8 array antenna is designed, which uses a T-shaped power divider to realize 64 feed channels. The simulation results show that the peak gain of planar array antenna can reach 24.8dB, while the peak gain of cylindrical conformal antenna decreases by 1.2dB and 1.7dB in phi=0° and phi=90° respectively. And the main beam direction deflects by 0° and 4° respectively. The measurement results show that the performance of the processed object is close to the simulation. After conformal with cylinder, the peak gain is 23.5dB, and the beam deflection is 4°, which verifies the feasibility of the designed cylindrical conformal array antenna. Index Terms ─ Array antenna, conformal, microstrip patch.
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