Wideband Low-Profile Fabry-Perot Cavity Antenna with Metasurface

Authors

  • Xueyan Song School of Electronic Engineering Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunications, Xi’an 710121, China
  • Ang Dong School of Electronic Engineering Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunications, Xi’an 710121, China
  • XuPing Li School of Electronic Engineering Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunications, Xi’an 710121, China
  • YunQi Zhang School of Electronic Engineering Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunications, Xi’an 710121, China
  • Haoyuan Lin School of Electronic Engineering Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunications, Xi’an 710121, China
  • Hailong Yang School of Electronic Engineering Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunications, Xi’an 710121, China
  • Yapeng Li School of Electronic Engineering Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunications, Xi’an 710121, China

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/2024.ACES.J.390312

Keywords:

Fabry-Perot cavity, high gain, low-profile, wideband

Abstract

A novel Fabry-Perot cavity (FPC) antenna with metasurface is presented, which can achieve broad bandwidth and low profile. Traditional FPC antennas, with rectangular microstrip antennas as feeds, have limited impedance bandwidth and struggle to make a compromise in the gain bandwidth and maximum gain value. To obtain wide bandwidth, the FPC antenna proposed in this paper utilizes a feed antenna loaded with parasitic patches. To widen impedance bandwidth and gain bandwidth and reduce the profile, a positive phase gradient partially reflective surface (PRS) and an artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) are located above and below the feed antenna, respectively. The phase property of the PRS and AMC also brings in a more smooth gain value curve. To further increase gain values, four metal reflector plates are located around the proposed antenna. The overall dimension of the antenna is 2.5λ0×2.5λ0×0.25λ0 (λ0 is the free space wavelength at 7.5 GHz). Simulated results show that the resonant cavity antenna proposed in this letter exhibits an impedance bandwidth of 13.3% (7–8 GHz) and a 3 dB gain bandwidth of 14.3% (7.02–8.10 GHz). The maximum gain in the whole operating band is 14.5 dBi. The measured results are in good agreement with the simulated ones.

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Author Biographies

Xueyan Song, School of Electronic Engineering Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunications, Xi’an 710121, China

Xueyan Song was born in Henan Province, China, 1989. She received the B.E. degree in electronic and information engineering from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 2012. She received the Ph.D. degree from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 2018. She joined the School of Electronic Engineering, Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunications in 2018. Her research interests include artificial magnetic conductors, low RCS antennas, low-profile antennas, frequency selective surfaces, and reflector antennas.

Ang Dong, School of Electronic Engineering Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunications, Xi’an 710121, China

Ang Dong was born in Hebei, China, in 1999. He is currently pursuing a Master of Engineering degree in the School of Electronic Engineering, Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunications. His current research interests include metasurface, microstrip antenna.

XuPing Li, School of Electronic Engineering Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunications, Xi’an 710121, China

XuPing Li was born in Xi’an, Shanxi, China, in 1981. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electromagnetic field and microwave from the Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 2015. In January 2019, he was transferred to Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunications as the leader of the phased array antenna technology research team. The principal focus of his research program is the development of phased array antennas.

YunQi Zhang, School of Electronic Engineering Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunications, Xi’an 710121, China

YunQi Zhang was born in BaoTou, Inner Mongolia, China, in 1986. He received the Ph.D. degree from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 2015. He is currently working in the Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunications. His research interests include GPS antenna, CP antenna, omnidirectional antenna and antenna array designs.

Haoyuan Lin, School of Electronic Engineering Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunications, Xi’an 710121, China

Haoyuan Lin was born in Shandong, China, in 2003. He is currently pursuing B.E. degree in the school of Electronic Engineering from Xian University of Posts & Telecommunications. His current research interests include circuit, microwave, antenna.

Hailong Yang, School of Electronic Engineering Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunications, Xi’an 710121, China

Hailong Yang received the B.S. in communicating engineering from Heze University, Heze, China, in 2012, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in communicating engineering from Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an, China, in 2015 and 2019. He joined the faculty of Electronic Engineering Department, Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunications, in 2019. His research interests include wave propagation and antenna design.

Yapeng Li, School of Electronic Engineering Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunications, Xi’an 710121, China

Yapeng Li received the Doctor’s degree from Xidian University in 2020. He is currently an associate professor with the School of Electric Engineering, Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunications. His research interests include filtering antenna, wideband antenna, dual-polarized antenna and circular polarized antenna.

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Published

2024-03-31

How to Cite

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X. Song, “Wideband Low-Profile Fabry-Perot Cavity Antenna with Metasurface”, ACES Journal, vol. 39, no. 03, pp. 262–267, Mar. 2024.

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2024: Vol 39 Iss 3

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