EP2760080A1 - Réseau d'antenne dipôle - Google Patents

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EP2760080A1
EP2760080A1 EP13275016.7A EP13275016A EP2760080A1 EP 2760080 A1 EP2760080 A1 EP 2760080A1 EP 13275016 A EP13275016 A EP 13275016A EP 2760080 A1 EP2760080 A1 EP 2760080A1
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q1/00—Details of, or arrangements associated with, antennas
    • H01Q1/52—Means for reducing coupling between antennas; Means for reducing coupling between an antenna and another structure
    • H01Q1/521—Means for reducing coupling between antennas; Means for reducing coupling between an antenna and another structure reducing the coupling between adjacent antennas
    • H01Q1/523—Means for reducing coupling between antennas; Means for reducing coupling between an antenna and another structure reducing the coupling between adjacent antennas between antennas of an array
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q21/00—Antenna arrays or systems
    • H01Q21/06—Arrays of individually energised antenna units similarly polarised and spaced apart
    • H01Q21/061—Two dimensional planar arrays
    • H01Q21/062—Two dimensional planar arrays using dipole aerials
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q9/00—Electrically-short antennas having dimensions not more than twice the operating wavelength and consisting of conductive active radiating elements
    • H01Q9/04—Resonant antennas
    • H01Q9/16—Resonant antennas with feed intermediate between the extremities of the antenna, e.g. centre-fed dipole
    • H01Q9/28—Conical, cylindrical, cage, strip, gauze, or like elements having an extended radiating surface; Elements comprising two conical surfaces having collinear axes and adjacent apices and fed by two-conductor transmission lines
    • H01Q9/285—Planar dipole

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  • This invention relates to a dipole antenna array, with particular reference to dipole antenna arrays which include a variety of antenna units which themselves include a pair of dipole radiating elements and a balun.
  • HCD Highly-Coupled Dipole
  • the present invention in at least some of its embodiments, addresses one or more of the above described problems and desires.
  • a dipole antenna array including at least one dipole antenna sub-array, wherein the dipole antenna sub-array includes a plurality of co-planar antenna units, each antenna unit including a pair of dipole radiating elements and a balun having an input line for providing output electrical signals to the pair of dipole radiating elements.
  • adjacent co-planar antenna units have adjacent dipole radiating elements which are spaced apart.
  • adjacent co-planar antenna units have adjacent dipole radiating elements which overlap.
  • each dipole antenna sub-array is a monolithic structure, ie, a co-planar, plank style arrangement such as a board.
  • the pair of dipole antenna radiating elements is supported at the monolithic structure so as to be co-planar (or at least parallel) with a plane defined by the monolithic structure.
  • the dipole antenna sub-array may have a first face and a second face. At least two consecutive antenna units may each have a dipole radiating element on both the first and second faces. Typically, in these embodiments, all of the antenna units in the dipole sub-array have a dipole radiating element on both the first and second faces.
  • the consecutive antenna units are arranged so that a dipole radiating element on the first face of one of said consecutive antenna units is adjacent a dipole radiating element on the second face of the next one of said consecutive antenna units.
  • the consecutive antenna units are arranged so that a dipole radiating element on the first face of one of said consecutive antenna units overlaps the adjacent dipole radiating element on the second face of the next one of said consecutive antenna units. In this way, an arrangement can be provided in which adjacent co-planar antenna units have adjacent dipole radiating elements which overlap.
  • a dipole antenna array may further include a ground plane having at least one slot form therein, wherein a dipole antenna sub-array extends through the slot.
  • a linearly polarised dipole antenna array may be provided which includes a plurality of dipole antenna sub-arrays, in which the ground plane includes a plurality of parallel slots formed therein, and the dipole antenna sub-arrays extend through the slots so that the dipole antenna sub-arrays are in a parallel arrangement.
  • a dual polarised dipole antenna array which includes at least first and second dipole antenna sub-arrays which are in a mutually orthogonal arrangement.
  • the first and second dipole antenna sub-arrays may be separate elements which are conjoined together in a mutually orthogonal arrangement.
  • a first and second dipole antenna sub-array may be slotted together in the mutually orthogonal arrangement using a plurality of slots formed in at least one of the first and second dipole antenna sub-arrays.
  • slots are formed in both of the first and second dipole antenna sub-arrays for this purpose.
  • the first dipole antenna sub-array has slots formed therein, in which each slot extends between the dipole radiating elements of an antenna unit.
  • each antenna unit which has a slot extending between its dipole radiating elements has its balun arranged so that at least the output line is inclined with respect to the slot.
  • the baluns each include a slotline which is coupled to an input line and the output line.
  • the baluns further include: an input port for receiving the input electrical signal, a first output port and a second output port; wherein the output line has a junction with a slotline; in which: the input line couples the input electrical signal to the slotline; the slotline couples the input electrical signal to the junction, the junction acting as a divider to produce first and second output electrical signals; and the output line couples the first and second output electrical signals to, respectively, the first output port and the second output port.
  • Baluns of this type are known from US 2005/0105637 , Bialkowski & Abbosh ( ME Bialkowski and AM Abbosh, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, Vol. 17, No. 4, April 2007 ), and our UK patent applications numbers GB1210817.1 and GB1210816.3 , the contents of all of which are herein incorporated by reference. It is known from these documents how to implement baluns using microwave techniques involving microstrips and slotlines. Features such as open circuit or short circuit terminations may be incorporated into the baluns as is known in the art.
  • At least one of the input line and the output line is a microstrip or a stripline.
  • both of the input line and the output line are microstrips or striplines.
  • the dipole antenna array is in the form of a printed circuit board (PCB).
  • the dipole antenna array may be in the form of a microwave laminate structure.
  • the dipole antenna sub-arrays may have a plurality of plated through holes (vias) formed therein.
  • the vias are disposed so as to suppress parallel plate modes, typically parallel plate modes that can be excited between the two ground plane layers of the stripline.
  • the dipole radiating elements can be of any suitable design. In some embodiments, the dipole radiating elements are of a bow tie arrangement.
  • FIG 1 (a) shows an antenna array, depicted generally at 10, which includes a plurality of co-planar antenna units 12.
  • Each antenna unit 12 includes a pair of dipole radiating elements 14(a), 14(b) which are of the bow tie type.
  • Each antenna unit 12 further comprises a balun 16.
  • the design of the balun can be of any convenient type.
  • the balun has a slotline 16(a) which is in communication with an input line 16(b) and an output line.
  • the output line comprises first and second output arms 16(c), 16(d).
  • Each output arm 16(c), 16(d) has an output port which is in direct communication with one of the pair of dipole radiating elements 14(a), 14(b).
  • the antenna sub-array 10 is manufactured using a microwave laminate structure which houses all of the antenna units 12. These structures can comprise a conductive central track layer sandwiched between two dielectric layers. Conductive layers such as copper layers may be present on the outside of the dielectric layers.
  • areas shown in solid white represent a substrate/laminate area with all copper removed, and areas in solid black represent stripline/track layer areas located at the centre of the laminate structure.
  • the hash pattern denotes copper stripline ground plane layers on both faces of the laminate structure.
  • constructional techniques known to produce tapered slot antenna arrays can be used or adapted to construct linearly or dual-polarised dipole antenna arrays of the invention.
  • FIG. 2 shows a gang-buster style arrangement 20 for a dipole antenna sub-array.
  • the dipole antenna sub-array 20 comprises individual antenna units 22.
  • the baluns associated with each of the antenna units 22 are not shown in Figure 2 .
  • Each antenna unit 22 includes dipole arms 24. In the embodiment shown in Figure 2 the dipole arms are placed on the exterior ground plane layers. Plated through holes 26 are provided to connect the dipole arms 24 to the stripline track (not shown) in the centre of the board/laminate triplate.
  • the dipole arms are placed on all three layers in the triplate laminate, with connections being made by plated through holes. This may improve bandwidth. Another option still is to position the dipole arms on the central track layer, thereby avoiding the need to use plated through holes.
  • Figure 3 shows a linearly polarised dipole antenna array 30 which comprises a ground plane 32 having a plurality of slots 34 formed therein. An antenna sub-array 36 protrudes through each of the slots 34.
  • FIG. 1(b) shows a dual-polarised dipole antenna array, depicted generally at 11.
  • the dual-dipole polarised antenna array 11 comprises an arrangement of a first group of dipole antenna sub-arrays 13 and a second group of dipole antenna sub-arrays 15.
  • the dipole antenna sub-arrays 13, 15 each have a plurality of antenna units which have associated dipole arms.
  • the first and second groups of dipole antenna sub-arrays are disposed in an orthogonal arrangement. The intersection of the orthogonal sub-arrays 13, 15 occurs at the centre of the radiating elements, maintaining co-incident phase centres for the two polarisations.
  • FIG. 4 shows in more detail suitable antenna sub-array arrangements.
  • Figure 4(a) shows the first dipole antenna sub-array 40 which includes a plurality of co-planar antenna units 42.
  • Each antenna unit 42 includes a pair of dipole radiating elements 44(a), 44(b) which are of the bow tie type.
  • Each antenna unit 42 further comprises a balun 46.
  • the main elements of the baluns 46 are similar to the baluns 16 depicted in Figure 1 in that each balun has a slotline 46(a) which is in communication with an input line 46(b) and an output line.
  • the output line comprises first and second output arms 46(c), 46(d), each output arm 46(c), 46(d) having an output port which is in direct communication with one of the pair of dipole radiating elements 44(a), 44(b).
  • the antenna units 42 each further comprise a slot 48, which extends into the antenna unit from the lower portion of the sub-array.
  • the output section of the baluns 46 are each inclined with respect to the slot 48.
  • the output arms 46(c), 46(d) and an upper section of the slotline 46(a) are inclined in this way. This makes it easier to maintain equal path lengths for the output arms 46(c), 46(d) between the baluns 46 and the two dipole radiating elements 44(a), 44(b).
  • Figure 4(b) shows a second dipole antenna sub-array 50.
  • the second dipole antenna sub-array 50 shares many common elements with the first dipole antenna sub-array 40, and identical numerals are used to denote such shared elements.
  • the principal difference is that the dipole antenna sub-array 50 has slots 52 which extend into each antenna unit 42 from the top portion of the dipole antenna sub-array 50, the slots 52 extending between the dipole radiating elements 44(a), 44(b) of each antenna unit 42.
  • a dipole antenna array can be constructed by slotting dipole antenna sub-arrays 40, 50 together in an orthogonal arrangement.
  • Figure 5 shows the primary design parameters identified for the radiating element based on the Figure 1(b) arrangement in which the dipole radiating elements remain on the track layer.
  • a bow-tie dipole radiating element shape has been assumed, although a small value D dipole would essentially give a standard dipole element.
  • W dipole is less than W unit_cell but for an arrangement in which a radiating element is on the outside of a triplate laminate W dipole would be greater than W unit_cell . It is possible that shapes other than bow-tie shape for the dipole element may be more suitable in the arrangement in which the dipole elements are on the outside of a triplate laminate.
  • H dipole is ⁇ max /10 and W unit_cell is ⁇ min /2, where the radiating element is operating in an array environment.
  • the parameters W cavity and H cavity indicate an area of the triplate laminate that can optionally be removed between the dipole arms and the ground plane.
  • Dipole antenna arrays of the type described herein are believed to be capable of operating over a 4:1 frequency range. With examples corresponding to the Figure 1(b) arrangement operation at a lower, frequency of approximately 2.5GHz and an upper frequency of approximately 13GHz is possible.
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US14/762,693 US10186768B2 (en) 2013-01-25 2014-01-22 Dipole antenna array
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GB1210816A (en) 1967-07-19 1970-11-04 Marconi Co Ltd Improvements in or relating to frequency shift telegraph systems
DE2020192A1 (de) * 1970-04-24 1971-11-04 Siemens Ag Dipolstrahlerelement in Streifenleitungstechnik
GB2338346A (en) * 1998-06-09 1999-12-15 Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Wide-band micropstrip dipole antenna array
US20050105637A1 (en) 2003-11-14 2005-05-19 Fitzpatrick Douglas D. Bi-phase modulator for ultra wideband signals
WO2005112196A1 (fr) * 2004-05-18 2005-11-24 Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) Antenne reseau dipole tres compacte
WO2010142756A1 (fr) * 2009-06-11 2010-12-16 Alcatel Lucent Élément rayonnant d'antenne

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GB1210816A (en) 1967-07-19 1970-11-04 Marconi Co Ltd Improvements in or relating to frequency shift telegraph systems
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DE2020192A1 (de) * 1970-04-24 1971-11-04 Siemens Ag Dipolstrahlerelement in Streifenleitungstechnik
GB2338346A (en) * 1998-06-09 1999-12-15 Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Wide-band micropstrip dipole antenna array
US20050105637A1 (en) 2003-11-14 2005-05-19 Fitzpatrick Douglas D. Bi-phase modulator for ultra wideband signals
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