期刊
IEEE ANTENNAS AND WIRELESS PROPAGATION LETTERS
卷 21, 期 1, 页码 34-38出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2021.3116459
关键词
Lenses; Dielectrics; Antennas; Gain; Fresnel reflection; Surface waves; Permittivity; 3-D printing; dielectric lenses; Fresnel zone lens millimeter-wave
资金
- U.K. EPSRC Grand Challenge SYMETA [EP/N010493/1]
- EPSRC ANISAT [EP/S030301/1]
The hybrid FZL design combines grooved and perforated design methods, improving antenna gain and addressing shadow blockage issues. The design utilizes perforated method for inner regions and grooved method for outer regions, successfully achieving manufacturing of low refractive index regions.
This letter presents a novel hybrid design approach for the Fresnel zone lenses (FZL). The method combines the two conventional design approaches: grooved and perforated methods. Perforated lenses minimize the shadow blockage that grooved lenses suffer from, and therefore provide improved antenna gain. However, the fabrication of the low refractive index regions in the perforated lenses is challenging due to the limited manufacturing resolution, which means low refractive index dielectrics cannot be realized. The proposed hybrid FZL design utilizes the perforated method for the inner regions and applies the grooved method for the outer regions. This letter describes the equations used to optimize the design and gives the general design guidelines. A hybrid FZL antenna that operates at the center frequency of 33 GHz is presented. Measurement results show that the hybrid FZL improved the realized gain by up to 3.2 dB and the -3 dB gain bandwidth by up to 2 GHz when compared with the equivalent grooved FZL.
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