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Very Broadband Extended Hemispherical Lenses: Role of Matching Layers for Bandwidth Enlargement

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The design and optimization of very broadband integrated lens antennas (ILAs) constitutes one of the future trends in lens antenna field. To this end we investigate numerically the radiation performance of millimeter wave ILAs coated with multiple anti reflection layers. We propose lens structures of moderate size (four wavelengths in diameter at the center frequency) and made from a dense dielectric material (ceramic). They are illuminated by two kinds of on-axis primary sources, namely a dielectric-loaded metallic waveguide and a patch antenna. This enables to assess the role of the lens illumination law on the performance of broadband ILAs. In particular, we demonstrate that ILAs coated with three stacked quarter wavelength matching layers exhibit a very broadband promising features. First their radiation characteristics remain very stable over a large frequency band: a 36% relative bandwidth is achieved using dielectric-loaded waveguide feeds. Secondly very high values of aperture efficiencies (beyond 91% over a 21% bandwidth) are obtained using printed feeds. The truncation effects of the ground plane and substrate of planar feeds upon the beam characteristics are also studied. We conclude that they must be taken into account at the very first stages of the design process of ILAs.
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Ngoc Tinh Nguyen, Ronan Sauleau, C.J. Martinez Perez. Very Broadband Extended Hemispherical Lenses: Role of Matching Layers for Bandwidth Enlargement. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2009, 57 (7), pp.1907-1913. ⟨10.1109/TAP.2009.2021884⟩. ⟨hal-00406608⟩
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