Conical beam windmill-shaped array antenna design based on quarter-mode substrate integrated waveguide

• Main Authors: Cheng, Jin, Rui, Li, Arokiaswami, Alphones
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99080; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/18437; http://www.jpier.org/PIERL/pier.php?paper=13022501
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper presents a compact conical beam antenna based on quarter-mode substrate integrated waveguide (QMSIW). The antenna array is consisted of six isosceles right-angled triangle metallic patch printed on the upper side of the substrate in a windmill-shape and diagonal periodic metallic via hole...