Electronic Science and Technology ›› 2023, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (9): 29-34.doi: 10.16180/j.cnki.issn1007-7820.2023.09.005

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Wide Scanning and Low Sidelobe K-Band Circularly Polarized Thinning Array

ZHOU Biao1,ZHANG Shuai2,YAN Denghui2,LIN Zhicheng2,WANG Jian1   

  1. 1. The 13th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation,Shijiazhuang 050051,China
    2. School of Electronic Engineering,Xidian University,Xi'an 710071,China
  • Received:2022-03-23 Online:2023-09-15 Published:2023-09-18
  • Supported by:
    National Nature Science Foundation of China(62101402)

Abstract:

This study presents a low profile wide band wide angle low sidelobe circular-polarized sparse phased array antenna for K band. The radiation part of the antenna unit consists of a circular patch with parasitic ring radiator and an L-shaped patch. Due to the feed port limitations of the T/R assembly, the antenna is miniaturized through the underlying microstrip cable connection metal through-hole, making the antenna easy to integrate with the internal T/R assembly. At the same time, the sequential rotation technique is applied in the antenna array to expand the axial ratio bandwidth. In addition, considering the constraints of the element layout introduced by T/R assembly, a multi-constrained subarray level optimization algorithm is designed. Only through the optimization of the subarray position, a 400-cell wide band, wide angle and low sidelobe sparse array is designed. Simulation results show that the sparse array achieves normal gain of 30.46 dB, beam width of less than 4.5° and sidelobes level of less than -13.13 dB within ±55° under the sparse ratio of 44.6%, which is suitable for K-band satellite communication phased array antenna.

Key words: circularly polarized antenna, wideband antenna, K-band, satellite antenna, sequentially rotated antenna array, beam scanning, sparse array, genetic algorithm

CLC Number: 

  • TN82