PCB-Based Design of a Beamsteerable Array with High-Gain Antennas and a Rotman Lens at 28 GHz

Mikko Heino; Clemens Icheln; Jaakko Haarla; Katsuyuki Haneda

doi:10.1109/LAWP.2020.3017129

PCB-Based Design of a Beamsteerable Array with High-Gain Antennas and a Rotman Lens at 28 GHz

Mikko Heino^*
, Clemens Icheln
, Jaakko Haarla
, Katsuyuki Haneda

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This letter presents a low-cost single-layer printed circuit board (PCB) design of a Rotman lens and an eight-element Yagi-Uda antenna array suitable for radio frequency (RF) beamsteering at 28 GHz. The antenna array realizes 19 dBi gain due to the guiding parasitic elements of each antenna element and a shaped ground plane surrounding the array. The array radiates in a direction parallel to the PCB enabling the possibility for two-dimensional beamsteering by stacking the PCBs. Integrated with an RF switch network, the design has seven switchable beams to the directions-30 °,-20°,-10°, 0°, 10°, 20°, and 30°. The measured realized gain is still as high as 4-10 dBi including losses of the Rotman lens and the RF switches, thanks to the high-gain antenna array design. The array works wideband across 25.5-28.5 GHz where broadside beam gains are better than 8 dBi. This is the first letter in the literature introducing an experimentally verified design of a PCB endfire antenna array at 28 GHz including all necessary components for RF beamsteering, i.e., a Rotman lens and a switch network.

Alkuperäiskieli	Englanti
Artikkeli	9169775
Sivut	1754-1758
Sivumäärä	5
Julkaisu	IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
Vuosikerta	19
Numero	10
DOI - pysyväislinkit	https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2020.3017129
Tila	Julkaistu - lokak. 2020
OKM-julkaisutyyppi	A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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Manuscript received May 30, 2020; accepted June 9, 2020. Date of publication August 17, 2020; date of current version October 6, 2020. This work was supported in part by the Academy of Finland under the “Project Massive MIMO: Advanced Antennas, Systems, and Signal Processing at mm-Waves (M3MIMO),” decision number 288249; in part by the Aalto ELEC Doctoral School; in part by the Nokia Foundation; and in part by the HPY Research Foundation. (Corresponding author: Mikko Heino.) The authors are with the Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto University, 00076 Espoo, Finland (e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; jaakko.haarla@aalto. fi; [email protected]). Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/LAWP.2020.3017129

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Millimetriaaltoalueen massiiviset moniantennijärjestelmät: antennitekniikat, järjestelmäarkkitehtuuri ja signaalinkäsittely tulevaisuuden mobiiliverkoissa
Haneda, K. (Vastuullinen johtaja), Stasiunas, R. (Projektin jäsen), Miah, M. S. (Projektin jäsen), Venkatasubramanian, S. (Projektin jäsen), Heino, M. (Projektin jäsen) & Li, L. (Projektin jäsen)
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