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IEEE ACCESS
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages 111466-111476Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2934652
Keywords
Genetic algorithm (GA); low sidelobe pattern; reflection-canceling element; simulation-based iteration procedure; shaped-beam pattern; traveling-wave series-fed patch array antenna (TSPAA)
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- Shaanxi Outstanding Youth Science Foundation [2019JC-15]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China
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The methodology of designing traveling-wave series-fed patch array antennas (TSPAAs) based on reflection-canceling elements for flexible radiation pattern has been proposed. By introducing a quarter-wave transformer as the reflection-canceling structure, the cascaded patch antenna with tapered width can be used as the reflection-canceling element for a nonuniformly spaced TSPAA. Because of its simple structure, the parameters of the transformer can be determined directly by the corresponding equivalent circuit. To achieve a flexible radiation pattern, the array aperture distribution can be controlled by changing the element width (for amplitude distribution) and the element spacing (for phase distribution). In this method, the initial array is synthesized through a genetic algorithm approach, and a simulation-based iterative process considering the accurate mutual coupling is developed to optimize the initial array. To evaluate the proposed method, two different types of 14-element linear arrays operating at ISM 24GHz are implemented for a low sidelobe pattern and shaped-beam pattern, respectively. The two arrays are both simulated, fabricated and measured, the measured results show reasonable agreement with the simulation results, which verifies the effectiveness and correctness of the proposed method in this paper.
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