Substrate integrated waveguide antenna subarray for broadband circularly polarised radiation

Abstract

This study presents a compact circularly polarised array using tapered slot antenna fed by a substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) power divider. With the proposed topology, broadband circularly polarised property is achieved and total gain can be increased by controlling the element length, conserving the same footprint area. The different 2 × 2 cell configurations are investigated. Simple and integrated series-parallel SIW feed for the choose cell is presented. A 2 × 2 antenna array is designed and fabricated using SIW E-plane power divider. The measured 10 dB return loss and 3 dB axial ratio bandwidths are 35.65 and 32.3%, respectively. The measured antenna gain is 14.4 dBi at 35 GHz.