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Legen Dai1, Yongjun Xie1, Huai Wang2
1Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China.
Abstract:
A high end-fire gain, low-profile surface wave antenna with capacitive feed structure is presented in this paper. The proposed dielectric-metal surface wave antenna is composed of a dielectric slab that is mounted on a metal carrier and a low-profile feed structure. The feed structure is composed of a monopole radiation pin that is loaded with a circular metal plate and a grounding pin. The profile height of the antenna is only one-tenth of the operating wavelength. With a good end-fire performance and low profile, the antenna is very suitable to be conformally mounted on the surface of flight vehicles. The proposed antenna was designed and manufactured at the center frequency of 6 GHz. Measured results demonstrated that the proposed antenna had a bandwidth of 7.33%, ranging from 5.89 to 6.33 GHz, and the antenna reached a high gain of 9.76 dBi with a length of 122.96 mm (2.45 λ) in the end-fire direction.
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