High-Efficiency Wideband Transmitarray Antenna Using Polarization-Rotating Elements with Parasitic Stubs

WANG Xi; DONG Yuandan

doi:10.23919/cje.2023.00.094

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Xi WANG and Yuandan DONG, “High-Efficiency Wideband Transmitarray Antenna Using Polarization-Rotating Elements with Parasitic Stubs,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 496–503, 2024 doi: 10.23919/cje.2023.00.094

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Xi WANG and Yuandan DONG, “High-Efficiency Wideband Transmitarray Antenna Using Polarization-Rotating Elements with Parasitic Stubs,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 496–503, 2024 doi: 10.23919/cje.2023.00.094

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High-Efficiency Wideband Transmitarray Antenna Using Polarization-Rotating Elements with Parasitic Stubs

doi: 10.23919/cje.2023.00.094

WANG Xi,
DONG Yuandan^,

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University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China

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Xi WANG received the B.S. degree in electronic information engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU), Xi’an, China, in 2020, and he is currently pursuing the M.S. degree in the University of Electric Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China. He has received many awards including the the national scholarship twice and the Xiaomi Scholarship. His research interests include lens antennas, transmitarray antennas, and reflectarray antennas. (Email: westwong@163.com)

Yuandan DONG received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Department of Radio Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2006 and 2008, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA, in 2012. From September 2008 to June 2012, he was a graduate student researcher with the Microwave Electronics Laboratory, UCLA. From September 2012 to February 2016, he was working as a Senior Engineer with the Research and Development Hardware Department, Qualcomm, San Diego, CA, USA. From February 2016 to December 2017, he was working as a Staff Engineer with Universal Electronics Inc., Santa Ana, CA, USA. Since December 2017, he has been a Full Professor with the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China. He has authored or coauthored more than 270 journal articles and conference papers, which receive more than 5600 citations. He has been listed as an Elsevier highly cited researcher. He holds more than 100 patents including six international patents. He and his team have developed multiple RF products including acoustic wave filters, antenna tuners, and antennas, which are very widely shipped and applied in mobile devices. His research interests include the characterization and development of RF and microwave components, antennas, RF frontend modules, circuits, acoustic-wave filters, and metamaterials. Dr. Dong was a recipient of the Best Student Paper Award from 2010 IEEE Asia Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC) held in Yokohama, Japan, the Best Paper Award in 2021 and 2023 IEEE International Wireless Symposium (IWS), the Distinguished Expert Presented by Sichuan Province and by the national government, respectively, and the High Level Innovative and Entrepreneurial Talent presented by Jiangsu Province. He has been a TPC member for several international conferences. He has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation since 2021. And he has served as a guest editor for IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation. He is also serving as a Reviewer for multiple IEEE and IET journals including the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques and the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. (Email: ydong@uestc.edu.cn)
Corresponding author: Email: ydong@uestc.edu.cn
Received Date: 2023-03-26
Accepted Date: 2023-06-20

Available Online: 2023-08-08

Publish Date: 2024-03-05

Abstract

Abstract

A high-efficiency polarization-rotating transmitarray antenna (TA) using wideband elements is proposed for millimeter-wave applications. The polarization-rotating element consists of three metallic layers and two substrates. Orthogonal polarizers are employed on the top and bottom of the element. And the split ring with a parasitic stub on the middle layer is symmetric about the diagonal, performing the polarization rotation and phase compensation simultaneously. A parasitic stub is designed to decrease transmission loss and broaden the bandwidth. The periodicity of the element is only 1/4 wavelength at 30 GHz. A prototype TA with 28 × 28 elements is designed, fabricated, and measured. The measured peak gain reaches 27.5 dBi at 37.8 GHz. The 1-dB gain drop bandwidth is 30.8–40 GHz (26.0%). The aperture efficiency reaches as high as 71% at 31.5 GHz. Within the bandwidth of 26.5–38.8 GHz (37.7%), the aperture efficiency is higher than 50%. The proposed polarization-rotating TA features wide bandwidth and high efficiency, demonstrating great application potential for 5G millimeter-wave communication.
- High-efficiency,
- Lens antenna,
- Millimeter-wave,
- Polarization rotation,
- Transmitarray antenna,
- Wideband antenna

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