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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kamran Ishfaq, Muhammad
• Babale, Suleiman Aliyu
• Chattha, Hassan Tariq
• Himdi, Mohamed
• Raza, Ali
• Younas, Muhammad
• Rahman, Tharek ABD
• Abdul Rahim, Sharul Kamal
• Khawaja, Bilal A.

Titel

Compact Wide-Angle Scanning Multibeam Antenna Array for V2X Communications

Ist Teil von

• IEEE antennas and wireless propagation letters, 2021-11, Vol.20 (11), p.2141-2145

Ort / Verlag

New York: IEEE

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

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IEEE Xplore

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This letter presents a wide-angle scanning multibeam planar inverted-E antenna (PIEA) array for vehicle-to-everything communication. The compact four-element PIEA array is designed with 0.3λ o spacing, which achieves 90<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">^{\circ}</tex-math></inline-formula> wide-angle scanning when a 135<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">^{\circ}</tex-math></inline-formula> phase shift is applied obtained using a 4 × 4 Butler matrix (BM). The closeness of the array elements causes high mutual coupling and high cross polarization at wider scan angles. Therefore, three novel techniques are employed to overcome the high cross polarization and mutual coupling between the antenna elements in this array. To feed the antenna array, a low-cost miniaturized beamforming 4 × 4 BM circuit is designed without the use of phase shifters and conventional crossovers. The total dimensions of the compact PIEA array are just 0.456λ 0 × 1.12λ 0 × 0.036λ 0 , while the overall dimensions of the multibeam array, including BM, are 2.731λ 0 × 2.2λ 0 × 0.046 λ 0 . This multibeam array achieves for the first time the wide-angle scanning angles of ±87<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">^{\circ}</tex-math></inline-formula> with a 3 dB beam scanning range of ±120<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">^{\circ}</tex-math></inline-formula> along with the scanning angles of ±20<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">^{\circ}</tex-math></inline-formula>. This array design can be scaled to use as an antenna array for millimeter-wave applications.