A Wide-Angle Scanning Switched-Beam Antenna System in LTCC Technology with High Beam Crossing Levels for V-band Communications

Francesco Foglia Manzillo; Maciej Śmierzchalski; Laurent Le Coq; Mauro Ettorre; Jouko Aurinsalo; Kari T. Kautio; Markku S. Lahti; Antti E.I. Lamminen; Jussi Säily; Ronan Sauleau

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A Wide-Angle Scanning Switched-Beam Antenna System in LTCC Technology with High Beam Crossing Levels for V-band Communications

Francesco Foglia Manzillo
, Maciej Śmierzchalski
, Laurent Le Coq
, Mauro Ettorre
, Jouko Aurinsalo
, Kari T. Kautio
, Markku S. Lahti
, Antti E.I. Lamminen
, Jussi Säily
, Ronan Sauleau

Universite de Rennes 1

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Abstract

Wide-angle coverage, fine angular resolution and low-power consumption are key characteristics of millimeterwave (mm-wave) short-range wireless systems, such as access points in fifth-generation (5G) cellular networks and automotive radars. In this paper, we present a 60-GHz switched-beam antenna system addressing all these requirements. It consists of two identical parallel-fed arrays of 8 slots, each fed by a passive pillbox beamformer. A switch network comprising four singlepole- multiple-throw (SPnT) switches excites one of the two arrays at a time and selects the radiated beam. The whole system is fully-integrated in a multilayer low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) module. The antenna covers a scan range of about ±39° in one plane using eleven beams, between 57 GHz and 66 GHz. The proposed architecture enables the simultaneous achievement of continuous coverage (beam crossover levels of about -3 dB) and of low sidelobe levels (SLLs). Dedicated numerical tools are used for a preliminary design of the antenna. The design procedure, the technological development and the experimental results are discussed in detail.

Original language	English
Article number	8502146
Pages (from-to)	541-553
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume	67
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2018.2877467
Publication status	Published - 17 Jan 2019
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Funding

This work was supported by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant no. 619563 (MiWaveS).

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60-GHz communications
low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC)
millimeter-wave antennas
switched-beam antenna
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Manzillo, F. F., Śmierzchalski, M., Le Coq, L., Ettorre, M., Aurinsalo, J., Kautio, K. T., Lahti, M. S., Lamminen, A. E. I., Säily, J., & Sauleau, R. (2019). A Wide-Angle Scanning Switched-Beam Antenna System in LTCC Technology with High Beam Crossing Levels for V-band Communications. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 67(1), 541-553. Article 8502146. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2018.2877467

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