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Practical Design Considerations for Compact Array-Fed Huygens' Dielectric Lens Antennas.

Bora Seo1, Inseop Yoon2, Jungsuek Oh3

  • 1Department of Electronic Engineering, Inha University, Incheon 22212, Korea. seobora0520@gmail.com.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
|January 31, 2019
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This study introduces a new Huygens

Area of Science:

  • Electromagnetics and Optics
  • Antenna Theory and Design

Background:

  • Conventional dielectric lens design methods face limitations, particularly concerning resonant effects at short distances from feed antennas.
  • Huygens' principle (HP) based lenses rely on precise phase shifting, which can be compromised by undesired dielectric resonances.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a practical design consideration for dielectric lenses based on Huygens' principle (HP) at a short distance (λ₀/2) from feed antennas.
  • To overcome limitations of conventional design methods by accounting for resonant effects and actual phase distributions.
  • To enhance antenna gain through a novel HP-based lens design approach.

Main Methods:

  • Developing an HP-based design method that captures phase distributions at a specific distance from the feed array.
Keywords:
antenna arraysdielectric lenslens antennas

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  • Analyzing phase distributions for 2 × 2 and 1 × 4 array antennas.
  • Designing lens topology to compensate for phase distributions and mitigate resonant effects.
  • Considering undesired dielectric resonant phenomenology in the design process.

    • Main Results:

    • The proposed HP-based design method achieves significant gain enhancement.
    • A case study demonstrated a gain enhancement of up to 5.34 dB compared to conventional dielectric lenses.
    • The effectiveness of the gain enhancement depends on the feed array arrangement and resulting phase distribution shapes (circular or elliptic).

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed Huygens' principle-based dielectric lens design offers a practical approach to overcome conventional limitations.
    • Accounting for actual phase information and resonant effects is crucial for effective lens design and gain enhancement.
    • This method provides a pathway to significantly improve antenna performance through optimized dielectric lens design.