{"title":"A broad beam-width microstrip cross antenna design for wide scan angle phased array","authors":"Zhaobi Wang, Dongmei Dan, S. Xiao, M. Tang","doi":"10.1109/IMWS-BIO.2013.6756220","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A wide bandwidth, broad beam-width microstrip antenna element is reported for active phased array application. The antenna element offers a return loss better than -10dB over a bandwidth of 24.82% in Ku-band with beam-widths of 134° in H-plane and 126° in E-plane, respectively. The antenna is capable of realizing two orthogonal linear polarizations and a circular polarization respectively when different feeding approaches are utilized. Moreover, the wide-angle scanning characteristic of the 8×8 array composed of proposed element is evaluated. Besides, the microstrip steerable antenna array can be easily embedded into wearable medical or commercial devices.","PeriodicalId":6321,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on RF and Wireless Technologies for Biomedical and Healthcare Applications (IMWS-BIO)","volume":"37 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"7","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2013 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on RF and Wireless Technologies for Biomedical and Healthcare Applications (IMWS-BIO)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMWS-BIO.2013.6756220","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A wide bandwidth, broad beam-width microstrip antenna element is reported for active phased array application. The antenna element offers a return loss better than -10dB over a bandwidth of 24.82% in Ku-band with beam-widths of 134° in H-plane and 126° in E-plane, respectively. The antenna is capable of realizing two orthogonal linear polarizations and a circular polarization respectively when different feeding approaches are utilized. Moreover, the wide-angle scanning characteristic of the 8×8 array composed of proposed element is evaluated. Besides, the microstrip steerable antenna array can be easily embedded into wearable medical or commercial devices.