Wideband Circularly Polarized Substrate-Integrated Waveguide Aperture-Coupled Metasurface Antenna Array for Millimeter-Wave Applications

LIAN Jiwei; GENG Chun; LU Xue; DING Dazhi

doi:10.23919/cje.2023.00.029

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Jiwei LIAN, Chun GENG, Xue LU, et al., “Wideband Circularly Polarized Substrate-Integrated Waveguide Aperture-Coupled Metasurface Antenna Array for Millimeter-Wave Applications,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. x, no. x, pp. 1–11, xxxx doi: 10.23919/cje.2023.00.029

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Jiwei LIAN, Chun GENG, Xue LU, et al., “Wideband Circularly Polarized Substrate-Integrated Waveguide Aperture-Coupled Metasurface Antenna Array for Millimeter-Wave Applications,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. x, no. x, pp. 1–11, xxxx doi: 10.23919/cje.2023.00.029

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Wideband Circularly Polarized Substrate-Integrated Waveguide Aperture-Coupled Metasurface Antenna Array for Millimeter-Wave Applications

doi: 10.23919/cje.2023.00.029

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GENG Chun^3
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LU Xue¹,
DING Dazhi^{1
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School of Microelectronics (School of Integrated Circuits), Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
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State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
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Qian Xuesen College, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China

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Jiwei LIAN was born in Guangdong, China. He received the B.S. degree in electronic science and technology from Hunan University, Changsha, China, in 2015, and the Ph.D. degree in electromagnetic field and microwave technology from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2020. From 2018 to 2020, he was a Visiting Student with the Global Big Data Technologies Centre, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, Australia. He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Microelectronics (School of Integrated Circuits), Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China. He has authored or coauthored over 30 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings. His current research interests include beam-forming networks, multibeam antennas, and metasurface technologies. Dr. Lian is serving as a reviewer for several international journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters. (Email: lianjiwei@njust.edu.cn)

Chun GENG was born in Jiangsu, China. He is currently pursuing the B.S. degree with the Qian Xuesen College, Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NJUST), Nanjing, China. His current research interests include multibeam antennas, beamforming networks and mm-wave antenna arrays. Mr. Geng was the recipient of First Place Award for the IEEE MTT-S Multilingual Graduate Video Competition at IEEE International Wireless Symposium in 2023, the Scholarship of Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2023. (Email: chungeng011226@163.com)

Xue LU was born in Jiangsu, China. She received the B.S. degree from Taizhou Institute of Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Taizhou, China, in 2020, and M.S. degree from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, in 2023. Her current research interests include End-fire antennas, and metasurface antennas

Dazhi DING received the B.Sc. and Ph.D degrees in electromagnetic field and microwave technique from Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NJUST), Nanjing, China, in 2002 and 2007, respectively. During 2005, he was with the Center of wireless Communication in the City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, as a Research Assistant. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NJUST), Nanjing, China, where he became a Lecturer in 2007. In 2014, he was promoted to Full Professor in NJUST. He was appointed Head of the Department of Communication Engineering, NJUST in September 2014. He was appointed Director of Academic Affairs Office in 2021. His current research interests include computational electromagnetics, electromagnetic scattering and radiation. He has authored or coauthored more than 80 papers. He is the recipient of the Foundation for China Excellent Young Investigators presented by the National Science Foundation (NSF) of China in 2015. (Email: dzding@njust.edu.cn)
Corresponding author: Email: dzding@njust.edu.cn
Received Date: 2023-02-01
Accepted Date: 2023-09-07

Available Online: 2023-12-13

Abstract

Abstract

A wideband circularly polarized (CP) aperture-coupled metasurface antenna operating at millimeter-wave frequency spectrum in substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW) technology is proposed. Such a proposed metasurface antenna is composed of two substrates. The first substrate contains an end-shorted SIW section with a slot etched. The introduced metasurface is printed on the top of the second substrate. The metasurface is comprised of 3 × 3 unit cells, each of which contains two interconnected patches and two parasitic patches. The working mechanism of the proposed metasurface antenna is illustrated in details. The proposed metasurface antenna has wide impedance bandwidth and axial ratio (AR) bandwidth, which are 66.7% and 40%, respectively. Using the proposed metasurface antenna, a 4 × 4 CP metasurface antenna array with an impedance bandwidth of 24%, an AR bandwidth of 30%, and a peak gain of 18.7 dBic in simulation is developed in this paper for millimeter-wave applications.
- Wideband,
- circularly polarized (CP),
- millimeter-wave,
- substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW),
- metasurface antenna

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