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Gain Enhancement and Cross-Polarization Suppression of Cavity-Backed Antennas Using a Flared Ground Cavity and Iris

Herein, we present new design principles for gain enhancement and cross-polarization suppression in dual-polarized cavity-backed antennas and demonstrate the capability in an octagonal cavity-backed open prism antenna (OCROP). In our approach, the gain is enhanced through an optimal flaring procedur...

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Autores principales: Liu, Yanxia, Isleifson, Dustin, Shafai, Lotfollah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10181610/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37177592
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23094389
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author Liu, Yanxia
Isleifson, Dustin
Shafai, Lotfollah
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description Herein, we present new design principles for gain enhancement and cross-polarization suppression in dual-polarized cavity-backed antennas and demonstrate the capability in an octagonal cavity-backed open prism antenna (OCROP). In our approach, the gain is enhanced through an optimal flaring procedure and a novel metallic iris is used to control the electromagnetic fields and thereby reduce the cross-polarization. Previously, we investigated a dual-polarized OCROP antenna configuration and were able to simultaneously achieve 50% impedance bandwidth, 40% cross-polarization bandwidth (≤25 dB), and 10.2 dBi peak gain. In this study, we investigated gain enhancement by flaring an upper section of the ground cavity sidewalls, while maintaining a constant cavity height. Two cases were investigated: (1) the flare angle was modified, while the ratio of the non-flared to flared sidewall heights was kept constant, and (2) the ratio of the non-flared to flared sidewall heights was varied. In case 1, we established that, while increasing the flare angle results in a gain increase, there is a limit, as cross-polarization at the upper operating frequencies increases. In case 2, we were able to reduce the aperture phase error and achieve a higher peak gain of 12.8 dBi. To address the increased cross-polarization at the high frequency end when a large flare was used, we added a metallic iris at the junction of non-flared and flared sidewalls. We showed that increasing the iris width generally decreases the cross-polarization at high frequencies, without compromising the gain and impedance bandwidth. At an optimal width, it provides a nearly constant, low cross-polarization (below −25.8 dB) and a peak gain of 13.3 dBi, across the entire 50.7% impedance bandwidth of the antenna. We fabricated and successfully tested a prototype to verify the design and simulation approach. These results prove that incorporating an aperture flare with a metallic iris can significantly improve the gain and cross-polarization performance of cavity-backed antennas.
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spelling pubmed-101816102023-05-13 Gain Enhancement and Cross-Polarization Suppression of Cavity-Backed Antennas Using a Flared Ground Cavity and Iris Liu, Yanxia Isleifson, Dustin Shafai, Lotfollah Sensors (Basel) Article Herein, we present new design principles for gain enhancement and cross-polarization suppression in dual-polarized cavity-backed antennas and demonstrate the capability in an octagonal cavity-backed open prism antenna (OCROP). In our approach, the gain is enhanced through an optimal flaring procedure and a novel metallic iris is used to control the electromagnetic fields and thereby reduce the cross-polarization. Previously, we investigated a dual-polarized OCROP antenna configuration and were able to simultaneously achieve 50% impedance bandwidth, 40% cross-polarization bandwidth (≤25 dB), and 10.2 dBi peak gain. In this study, we investigated gain enhancement by flaring an upper section of the ground cavity sidewalls, while maintaining a constant cavity height. Two cases were investigated: (1) the flare angle was modified, while the ratio of the non-flared to flared sidewall heights was kept constant, and (2) the ratio of the non-flared to flared sidewall heights was varied. In case 1, we established that, while increasing the flare angle results in a gain increase, there is a limit, as cross-polarization at the upper operating frequencies increases. In case 2, we were able to reduce the aperture phase error and achieve a higher peak gain of 12.8 dBi. To address the increased cross-polarization at the high frequency end when a large flare was used, we added a metallic iris at the junction of non-flared and flared sidewalls. We showed that increasing the iris width generally decreases the cross-polarization at high frequencies, without compromising the gain and impedance bandwidth. At an optimal width, it provides a nearly constant, low cross-polarization (below −25.8 dB) and a peak gain of 13.3 dBi, across the entire 50.7% impedance bandwidth of the antenna. We fabricated and successfully tested a prototype to verify the design and simulation approach. These results prove that incorporating an aperture flare with a metallic iris can significantly improve the gain and cross-polarization performance of cavity-backed antennas. MDPI 2023-04-29 /pmc/articles/PMC10181610/ /pubmed/37177592 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23094389 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Gain Enhancement and Cross-Polarization Suppression of Cavity-Backed Antennas Using a Flared Ground Cavity and Iris
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title_full Gain Enhancement and Cross-Polarization Suppression of Cavity-Backed Antennas Using a Flared Ground Cavity and Iris
title_fullStr Gain Enhancement and Cross-Polarization Suppression of Cavity-Backed Antennas Using a Flared Ground Cavity and Iris
title_full_unstemmed Gain Enhancement and Cross-Polarization Suppression of Cavity-Backed Antennas Using a Flared Ground Cavity and Iris
title_short Gain Enhancement and Cross-Polarization Suppression of Cavity-Backed Antennas Using a Flared Ground Cavity and Iris
title_sort gain enhancement and cross-polarization suppression of cavity-backed antennas using a flared ground cavity and iris
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10181610/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37177592
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23094389
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