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Compact modified hourglass-shaped aperture-coupled antenna for radar applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2023

P. Priyalatha Open the ORCID record for P. Priyalatha [Opens in a new window] ,
Runa Kumari  and
Sourav Nandi Open the ORCID record for Sourav Nandi [Opens in a new window]
P. Priyalatha*
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, TG 500078, India
Runa Kumari
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, TG 500078, India
Sourav Nandi
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, TG 500078, India
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Author for correspondence: P. Priyalatha, Email: p.priyalatha@gmail.com
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Abstract

This paper furnishes a compact modified hourglass-shaped aperture-coupled antenna for radar applications. The effect of slots of various shapes and various slot lengths on the input impedance, radiation pattern, and gain of the antenna are analyzed. The proposed antenna, designed using a modified hourglass-shaped aperture, offers a gain of 8.214 dBi for an compact antenna with a dimension of 20.4 × 20.4 × 1.041 mm3 and an aperture area of 2.495 mm2. Implementation of this proposed modified hourglass-shaped aperture offers a high gain per unit radiating patch area of 40.26 dB/$\lambda _g ^2$ and a high gain per unit aperture area of 1324.84 dB/$\lambda _g ^2$. The proposed aperture feeds a circular patch which radiates at its resonant frequency of 10.5 GHz. The proposed design is fabricated and the simulated results are verified experimentally. Equivalent circuit analysis is also done. A measured gain of 7.2 dBi is observed at 10.5 GHz. The physical area of the antenna is reduced without compromising the gain by judiciously choosing the shape of slot with more degree of freedom for impedance matching. The proposed antenna is well suited for the unit cell of phased array antennas for X-band missile radar applications.

Keywords

Aperture areacompactinput impedancemissile radarphased array
Type
Antenna Design, Modelling and Measurements
Information
International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies , Volume 15 , Issue 9 , November 2023 , pp. 1592 - 1600
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press in association with the European Microwave Association

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