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Quasi‐corrugated substrate integrated waveguide H‐plane horn antenna with wideband and low‐profile characteristics
Author(s) -
Zhao Yun
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of rf and microwave computer‐aided engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1099-047X
pISSN - 1096-4290
DOI - 10.1002/mmce.21539
Subject(s) - wideband , hfss , return loss , horn antenna , french horn , standing wave ratio , materials science , impedance matching , microstrip , radiation pattern , bandwidth (computing) , optics , antenna (radio) , acoustics , electrical impedance , microstrip antenna , optoelectronics , engineering , physics , slot antenna , telecommunications , electrical engineering
A wideband H‐plane horn antenna based on quasi‐corrugated substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) technology with a very low profile is presented in this article. Open‐circuited microstrip stubs are applied to create electric sidewalls of the quasi‐corrugated SIW structure. The quasi‐corrugated SIW H‐plane horn antenna shows high performance and simple structure. A specify‐shaped horn aperture is utilized, so that the poor impedance matching owing to the structure restriction can be smoothened. The structure is simulated by ANSYS HFSS and a prototype is fabricated. The measured results match well with the simulated ones. An enhanced impedance bandwidth ranging from 5.3 GHz to 19 GHz (VSWR < 2.5) is achieved. The presented antenna also brings out stable radiation beam over the same frequency band.