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Bent Coplanar Waveguide Feeds for Balanced Planar Antennas and Arrays
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  • Xianyang Lv,
  • Yongwei Zhang,
  • Yanwei Fu,
  • Quan Shi,
  • Ahmed El-Makadema
Xianyang Lv
Nantong University

Corresponding Author:lvxianyang@ntu.edu.cn

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Yongwei Zhang
Nantong University
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Yanwei Fu
Nantong University
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Quan Shi
Nantong University
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Ahmed El-Makadema
The University of Manchester
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Abstract

Planar antenna arrays of a balanced structure are of great importance in many applications due to their features including low-profile, wideband and high polarisation purity. However, feeding such antennas adds great complexity in terms of manufacturing and reduces the performance due to production of common mode propagation. A method for feeding such antennas using coplanar waveguide on a thin substrate is proposed. Not only does it terminate the antenna of a balanced structure with a single-ended feed but it also enables impedance transformation. The design was an attempt towards a completely printed front-end that incorporates the antenna elements and their feeding circuits on bendable substrates. The electromagnetic performance has been validated with a dual polarized prototype and its prospect for ultrawideband arrays e.g., 5G sub-6 GHz or square kilometre array, was explored.
31 Mar 2022Submitted to Electronics Letters
31 Mar 2022Submission Checks Completed
31 Mar 2022Assigned to Editor
03 Apr 2022Reviewer(s) Assigned
26 Jul 2022Review(s) Completed, Editorial Evaluation Pending
26 Jul 2022Editorial Decision: Revise Minor
05 Aug 20221st Revision Received
05 Aug 2022Submission Checks Completed
05 Aug 2022Assigned to Editor
05 Aug 2022Review(s) Completed, Editorial Evaluation Pending
27 Aug 2022Editorial Decision: Accept
Oct 2022Published in Electronics Letters volume 58 issue 21 on pages 786-788. 10.1049/ell2.12613