TFSIW-Excited Dual-Polarized Array Antenna With 30° Beam-Pointing for Millimeter-Wave Applications

This communication presents a dual-polarized series-fed array antenna with 30° beam-pointing for millimeter-wave (MM-Wave) applications. The 45° and -45° polarized subarrays share the aperture in an interdigital shape. The spacing between subarrays with the same polarization orientation is set to 0.56λ
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through the use of narrower T-type folded substrate integrated waveguide (TFSIW) instead of substrate integrated waveguide (SIW). The substrate integrated coaxial line (SICL) is adopted to design the array feeding network. To validate the proposed design, a 4 × 6 (single polarization) dual-polarized array antenna operating at 28 GHz with 30° beam-pointing is fabricated. Based on the measurement, the return losses are lower than -10 dB from 27.5 to 28.5 GHz, the isolations between the two polarization ports are higher than 30.0 dB in the frequencies mentioned above, the maximum gain at the center frequency is 15.7 dBi, and the cross-polarization levels are lower than -18.5 dB. The proposed antenna only needs one-step processing with the standard PCB technology without additional stitching assembly. Simulated and measured results of the proposed antennas were compared.