High Gain 3D Printed Antenna with Corrugations and High Aperture Efficiency Performance

Alkaraki, Shaker; Kelly, James; Parini, Clive; Gao, Yue; Stremsdoerfer, Samuel; Gayets, Edouard

Abstract

This paper presents a 3D printed antenna for X-band applications. The antenna is compact and it has high measured gain performance with high aperture efficiency over wide bandwidth covers 5 GHz. The proposed antenna consists of two layers stacked on top of each other, where the top layer is the radiating structure. The radiating structure consists of central slots surrounded by corrugations and cavity to improve the gain of the antenna. The proposed antenna is directive, compact and with high aperture efficiency performance. The antenna has a peak measured gain of 18.7 dBi at 11.3 GHz with a peak aperture efficiency of 56.6%.

• Conference Name: 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting
• Conference Location: Montreal, QC, Canada
• Start Date: Jul 5, 2020
• End Date: Jul 10, 2020
• Acceptance Date: Jul 5, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Feb 17, 2021
• Publication Date: Feb 17, 2021
• Deposit Date: Sep 26, 2023
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Pages: 1347-1348
• Book Title: 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting
• ISBN: 9781728166711
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ieeeconf35879.2020.9329715
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/25077311
• Publisher URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9329715