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A novel microstrip magnetic dipole antenna with wide beam-width is proposed in this paper. It is working as a cavity backed slot antenna. The half power beam-width (HPBW) is 150° in the E-plane, and 85° in the H-plane. Its low profile of 0.03 \( \lambda_{0} \) (\( \lambda_{0} \) is wavelength of operating center frequency) and compact size of 0.31 \( \lambda_{0} \) * 0.32 \( \lambda_{0} \) make it suitable for the space communication systems. Due to the good performance of the antenna element, two linear phased arrays have been constructed, E-plane and H-plane phased arrays. The main lobe can scan from −76° to 76° for the E-plane phased array, and from −65° to 65° for the H-plane phased array with about a 3 dB gain fluctuation. Moreover, a planar phased array has been constructed. The scanning range is from −55° to 55° in all azimuth planes.
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Liu, C., Xiao, S. (2017). Wide-Angle Scanning Phased Array Antenna for the Satellite Communication Application. In: Yu, Q. (eds) Space Information Networks. SINC 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 688. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4403-8_15
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