Design of A Novel Conical Conformal Linear Array Antenna for C-band Application. (October 2019) - Xu, Hongcheng
Abstract: A Novel conical conformal linear array antenna made up of 7 elements is proposed in this paper. Each element employing independent feeding consists of the overlapping top square, medium dielectric layer, array supported layer and back ground. The linear array antenna is wrapped around a conical surface to realize the integration. Through analyzing element working performance and linear array antenna on plane, the conformal array antenna wrapped around a conical surface just smaller curvature can be of analogy to reduce the experimental process. The presented conformal antenna operates at 4.86GHz over C-band. Multi-ports excitations have a vigorous characteristic in terms of a wide scanning angle and high gain than 10dBi. This method of the conformal array antenna analysis and the proposed design of antenna array integrating with supported layer can be employed a morph antenna and reduce the manufacturing cost for C-band.