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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications

Aperture Illumination Control in Radial Line Slot Antennas

Masaharu TAKAHASHI, Jun-ichi TAKADA, Makoto ANDO, Naohisa GOTO

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A radial line slot antenna (RLSA) is a high gain and high efficiency planar array. A single-layered RLSA is much simple in structure but the slot length must be varied to synthesize uniform aperture illumination. These are now commercialized for 12GHz band DBS reception. In RLSAs, considerable power is dissipated in the termination as is common to other traveling wave antennas; the uniform aperture illumination is not the optimum condition for high gain in RLSAs. Authors proposed a theoretical method reducing the termination loss for further efficiency enhancement. This paper presents the measured performances of the SL-RLSAs of this design with non-uniform aperture illumination. The efficiency enhancement of about 10% is observed; the measured gain of 36.7dBi (87%) and 32.9dBi (81%) for a 0.6mφ and 0.4mφ antennas respectively verify this technique.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E76-B No.7 pp.777-783
Publication Date
1993/07/25
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Antennas and Propagation

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