Microwave and millimetre wave antipodal Vivaldi antenna with trapezoid‐shaped dielectric lens for imaging of construction materials

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahdi Moosazadeh ◽  
Sergey Kharkovsky ◽  
Joseph T. Case
Keyword(s):  
Construction Materials ◽  
Millimetre Wave ◽  
Dielectric Lens ◽  
Vivaldi Antenna

scholarly journals Frequency-diverse multimode millimetre-wave constant-ϵr lens-loaded cavity

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. B. Abbasi ◽  
V. F. Fusco ◽  
O. Yurduseven ◽  
T. Fromenteze
Keyword(s):  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Doa Estimation ◽  
Frequency Diversity ◽  
Millimetre Wave ◽  
Single Lens ◽  
Dielectric Lens ◽  
Diversity Principle ◽  
First Time ◽  
Multi Mode

AbstractThis paper presents a physical frequency-diverse multimode lens-loaded cavity, designed and used for the purpose of the direction of arrival (DoA) estimation in millimetre-wave frequency bands for 5G and beyond. The multi-mode mechanism is realized using an electrically-large cavity, generating spatio-temporally incoherent radiation masks leveraging the frequency-diversity principle. It has been shown for the first time that by placing a spherical constant dielectric lens (constant-ϵr) in front of the radiating aperture of the cavity, the spatial incoherence of the radiation modes can be enhanced. The lens-loaded cavity requires only a single lens and output port, making the hardware development much simpler and cost-effective compared to conventional DoA estimators where multiple antennas and receivers are classically required. Using the lens-loaded architecture, an increase of up to 6 dB is achieved in the peak gain of the synthesized quasi-random sampling bases from the frequency-diverse cavity. Despite the fact that the practical frequency-diverse cavity uses a limited subset of quasi-orthogonal modes below the upper bound limit of the number of theoretical modes, it is shown that the proposed lens-loaded cavity is capable of accurate DoA estimation. This is achieved thanks to the sufficient orthogonality of the leveraged modes and to the presence of the spherical constant-ϵr lens which increases the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the received signal. Experimental results are shown to verify the proposed approach.

UWB antipodal vivaldi antenna for microwave imaging of construction materials and structures

2017 ◽  
Vol 59 (6) ◽  
pp. 1259-1264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahdi Moosazadeh ◽  
Sergey Kharkovsky ◽  
Joseph T. Case ◽  
Bijan Samali
Keyword(s):  
Construction Materials ◽  
Microwave Imaging ◽  
Vivaldi Antenna

Design of a high-gain dual-band antipodal Vivaldi antenna array for 5G communications

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Sumit Kumar ◽  
Amruta S. Dixit
Keyword(s):  
Frequency Spectrum ◽  
Impedance Matching ◽  
High Gain ◽  
Dual Band ◽  
Dual Frequency ◽  
Band Frequency ◽  
Dielectric Lens ◽  
Bottom Side ◽  
Simulation Results ◽  
Vivaldi Antenna

Abstract This paper presents a dual-band 1 × 4 antipodal Vivaldi antenna (AVA) array with high gain to operate over a dual-frequency band that covers the 5G frequency spectrum. The gain is enhanced by employing a dielectric lens (DL). The AVA array consists of four radiating patch elements, corrugations, DL, and array feeding network on the top side. The bottom side contains four radiating patches which are the mirror images of top radiating patches. The designed AVA contains 1 × 4 array antenna elements with a DL that is operating in the ranges of 24.59–24.98 and 27.06–29 GHz. The dimensions of the designed antenna are 97.2 mm × 71.2 mm × 0.8 mm. For the improvement in gain and impedance matching at the dual-band frequency, corrugation and feeding network techniques are used. The gain obtained is about 8–12 dBi. AVA array is tested after fabrication and the measured results are reliable with the simulation results.

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