Design of SIW fed antipodal linearly tapered slot antenna with hat-shaped dielectric loading at 60 GHz for inter-satellite communication

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Design of SIW fed antipodal linearly tapered slot antenna with hat-shaped dielectric loading at 60 GHz for inter-satellite communication

Author : Prof. Rama Rao T

Year : 2016

Publisher : Presses Polytechniques Et Universitaires Romandes

Source Title : Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications, Signal Processing and Networking, WiSPNET 2016

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Abstract

A substrate integrated waveguide(SIW) based antipodal linear tapered slot antenna (ALTSA) with dielectric loading at 60 GHz for inter-satellite communication applications is presented. The antenna gain is 17.29 dB at the frequency of interest with good efficiency of 95.1%. The antenna is designed using Rogers RT/Duroid 6002 material with dielectric constant 2.94 and thickness 0.254 mm. A hat-shaped dielectric loading is added to the antenna to form a dielectric guiding structure, which narrows the beamwidth. To reduce the cross-polarization levels and relative side-lobe levels, rectangular shaped corrugation is used in the antenna design. Ansys HFSS software is used for the simulation of antenna.