Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics
Vol 9, No 2: April 2020

A new approach for impedance matching rotman lens using defected ground structure

Mohammed K. Al-Obaidi (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM))
Ezri Mohd (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM))
Noorsaliza Abdullah (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM))
Samsul Haimi Dahlan (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM))



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Apr 2020

Abstract

Many recent radar applications and smart antenna are based on the electronically steerable beam in order to increase the performance of targeting the desired scan angle with the high performance of gain and directivity. Scanning angle with ±26o based on Microstrip Rotman lens and design frequency 2.45 GHz is presented in this study. Five beam ports provide five output beams directed the beams in five different scanning angles in the azimuth plane is provided. The traditional matching method by tapering the transmission line in order to guarantee a smooth energy transition from the 50 Ω input ports is replaced by Defected Ground Structure to achieve an acceptable return loss with a linear progressive phase for each beam port. The new approach is providing increasing in the scan angle. Besides, the size miniaturization is achieved by removing the tapering length and reduces the total size of the lens length by 23.67 mm. The proposed model is implemented using Computer Simulation Technology (CST) using the FR-4 substrate and the measurements lead to a good validation.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

EEI

Publisher

Subject

Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Description

Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (Buletin Teknik Elektro dan Informatika) ISSN: 2089-3191, e-ISSN: 2302-9285 is open to submission from scholars and experts in the wide areas of electrical, electronics, instrumentation, control, telecommunication and computer engineering from the ...