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Directive planar antenna array fed by dielectric waveguide for W i F i applications
Author(s) -
Kong Linghui,
Yan Sen,
Vandenbosch Guy A. E.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.31282
Subject(s) - broadside , ground plane , planar , radiation pattern , printed circuit board , antenna (radio) , optics , dielectric , bandwidth (computing) , electrical engineering , acoustics , engineering , physics , materials science , telecommunications , computer science , computer graphics (images)
A 1‐D nonuniform antenna array fed by a dielectric waveguide operating at 5.7 GHz is proposed. Based on the electromagnetic coupling between the inside travelling wave and the antenna elements, a broadside directive radiation pattern is obtained. The presence of a ground plane allows wall mounting, which is advantageous in many wireless fidelity applications. A prototype was built and measured to prove the concept. The measured −6 dB bandwidth is ca. 150 MHz and the measured realized gain is 9.58 dBi in the broadside direction. This is a very reasonable performance for an extremely simple structure, without feeding network, which is easily manufactured with cheap mass‐production Printed Circuit Board technology.