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Gain and Bandwidth Improvement of Empty Substrate Integrated Waveguide H-plane Horn Antenna at W-band

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A high-gain broadband empty substrate integrated waveguide (ESIW) H-plane horn antenna constructed by four low-cost printed circuit board (PCB) layers is proposed in this paper. The empty structure is fabricated by using high-precision laser engraving technology. A slotted rectangular dielectric load (SRDL) is introduced by simply extending the substrates, resulting a 4-dB gain enhancement and a 31% bandwidth improvement. The proposed antenna gives a measured realized gain at 14.5-dBi level with a relative impedance bandwidth larger than 19.6% (|S11| ≤ − 10 dB). The proposed antenna features the merits of low cost, high gain, and broad bandwidth.

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This work is supported in part by the project 61601050 from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), in part by the pre-research project 6140518040116DZ02001 from the Equipment Development Department of the Central Military Commission of China, and in part by BUPT Excellent Ph.D. Students Foundation.

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    Zihang Qi, Xiuping Li, Jun Xiao & Hua Zhu

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Qi, Z., Li, X., Xiao, J. et al. Gain and Bandwidth Improvement of Empty Substrate Integrated Waveguide H-plane Horn Antenna at W-band. J Infrared Milli Terahz Waves 40, 811–821 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10762-019-00610-3

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