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A Study on a Planar Array Antenna Design with a Flat-Topped Radiation Pattern  

Eom Soon-Young (한국전자통신연구원 안테나기술연구팀)
Pyo Cheol-Sig (한국전자통신연구원 안테나기술연구팀)
Jeon Soon-Ick (한국전자통신연구원 안테나기술연구팀)
Kim Chang-Joo (한국전자통신연구원 안테나기술연구팀)
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Abstract
In this paper, the design, fabrication and experiment on a planar array antenna with a flat-topped radiation pattern for a mobile base station antenna were described. The current distribution of an antenna aperture, which is easily realizable in a feeding network compared with the conventional one of sin(x)/x was optimized for shaping a desired flat-topped radiation pattern. The planar array antenna designed in this paper has a rectangular lattice and is composed of array elements of 16${\times}$8. Each radiating element, which is a microstrip element fed coaxially, has a linear vertical polarization and the feed network which use a Wilkinson power divider and a 180$^{\circ}$ ring hybrid coupler as a base element is designed. The flat-topped radiation pattern with 90$^{\circ}$ is shaped by 16 array elements with the element spacing of 0.55 λ$_{ο}$ in the azimuth plane, and the normal radiation pattern with 10$^{\circ}$ is shaped by 8 array elements with the element spacing of 0.65 λ$_{ο}$ in the elevation plane. Also, the planar array antenna is symmetrically divided into four parts. It consists of one hundred-twenty-eight radiating elements, thirty-two 1-4 column dividers, low 1-8 row dividers and one 1-4 input power divider. In order to verify electrical performances of the planar way antenna proposed in this paper, the experimental breadboard operated in tile band of 1.92~2.17 GHz(IMT2000 band) was fabricated, and its experimental results were a good agreement with simulation ones.
Keywords
Planar Array Antenna; Flat-Topped Radiation Pattern; Radiating Element; Feeder Network; Base Station Antenna;
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