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Millimeter-Wave Endfire Single-Feed Circular-Polarization Antipodal Fermi Tapered Slot Antenna

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A circular-polarization (CP) antenna for millimeter-wave (MMW) applications using an antipodal Fermi tapered slot antenna with sine-corrugation (AFTSA-SC) is presented. The CP mode is achieved using a single-feed substrate delay line with a 90° phase difference to excite two orthogonal-mode AFTSA-SCs. Two prototype designs for right-hand circular-polarization (RHCP) and left-hand circular-polarization (LHCP) were optimized and implemented. The optimized structure shows an axial ratio bandwidth <3 dB from 59 to 63 GHz. The measured results show a high realized-gain performance of 18.5 dB and a total radiation efficiency of 90% at 60 GHz, including a broadband impedance bandwidth < −10 dB over a frequency band of 50–67 GHz. There is a good agreement between measured and calculated results with stable radiation characteristics over the operating frequency band. This proposed CP endfire high-gain antenna can have numerous applications, particularly in short-range MMW wireless communications, imaging and detection systems.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montréal, QC, H3G 2W1, Canada

    Zouhair Briqech & Abdel-Razik Sebak

  2. Institut National De La Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Place Bonaventure, Montréal, QC, H5A 1C6, Canada

    Zouhair Briqech & Tayeb A. Denidni

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Briqech, Z., Sebak, AR., Denidni, T.A. (2018). Millimeter-Wave Endfire Single-Feed Circular-Polarization Antipodal Fermi Tapered Slot Antenna. In: Lakhtakia, A., Furse, C. (eds) The World of Applied Electromagnetics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58403-4_3

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