Periodic Collinear-Slotted Leaky Wave Antenna With Open Stopband Elimination

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel periodic-slotted leaky wave antenna with open stopband elimination, enabling efficient scanning and low cross-polarization, validated through simulation and measurement.

Contribution

It presents a new low cross-polarization RSIW leaky wave antenna with open stopband elimination and a comprehensive parametric analysis using TEN and TRT techniques.

Findings

Open stopband eliminated at broadside

Good agreement between simulation and measurement

Achieved desired sidelobe level (SLL)

Abstract

A low cross-polarization periodic-slotted ridged substrate-integrated waveguide (RSIW) leaky wave antenna (LWA) array is presented. Parametric constraints of the structure were investigated to realize a periodic leaky wave antenna (PLWA) with the ability of scanning from backward endfire into the forward quadrant. An appropriate multimode transverse equivalent network (TEN) is presented for the proposed antenna and values of leakage rate and phase constant for different parameters of the structure were extracted using the transverse resonance technique (TRT). The obtained results were compared to those achieved from HFSS software simulations. The open stopband in the broadside is eliminated using certain dimensions for the structure. By simultaneously manipulating a number of parameters, a variable {\alpha} and constant \b{eta} are resulted so that the desired sidelobe level (SLL) can be realized. The proposed structure was simulated and then manufactured. Simulation results show good agreement with measurement results.