Efficient Design of H-Plane SIW Horn Antenna Array at mmWaves

This paper presents an efficient design of an SIW horn antenna array for the upper part of the Ka-band. The array is formed by a corporate network in substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) technology, which feeds eight SIW horn. Impedance matching between each SIW horn and the free space is carried out by using a SIW-to-air transition that efficiently matches with the rest of the antenna elements. The array feed is based on an end launch connector over grounded coplanar-waveguide (GCPW) technology that makes an efficient transition to SIW. The corporate network has two-by-two electromagnetic (EM) field splitting levels through the use of H-plane T-splitters and waveguide bends. Thus, an in-phase and equal power symmetrical array structure is achieved from 34 GHz to 41 GHz (18.6% of bandwidth). The simulated results present a high stable gain of 14 dBi in the H-plane along the whole frequency range.