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Design of serial feeds for a bifurcated beam of bend-array configuration

This paper presents the design of serial feed radiators in cylindrical lens antenna system for mobile base station application. The authors are developing a cylindrical lens antenna featuring a simple configuration compared to the present array antenna configuration. In order to achieve the cylindri...

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Main Authors: Tengah, Z., Ali, M. T., Rahman, N. H. A., Pasya, I., Hamid, S. A., Baba, N. H., Yamada, Y.
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Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2016
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/73669/
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spelling my.utm.736692017-11-28T07:42:36Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/73669/ Design of serial feeds for a bifurcated beam of bend-array configuration Tengah, Z. Ali, M. T. Rahman, N. H. A. Pasya, I. Hamid, S. A. Baba, N. H. Yamada, Y. T Technology (General) This paper presents the design of serial feed radiators in cylindrical lens antenna system for mobile base station application. The authors are developing a cylindrical lens antenna featuring a simple configuration compared to the present array antenna configuration. In order to achieve the cylindrical lens antenna, bifurcated beam radiation shall be produced by the feed elements. In this paper, the bifurcated beam is achieved by adopting a bend-array configuration, consisting of four rectangular array elements with serial feed network. To ensure good and balance performance of the array antenna, the orientation of electric fields and the excitation amplitude of each element are considered. The optimized array structure is then arranged in bended structure to obtain the bifurcated beam pattern. To verify the radiation characteristic, simulation result of the bifurcated beam radiation is shown in terms of the current distribution. Good agreement between the beam pattern and the current distribution is obtained, showing that the serial feed network is accurate and effective to produce the bifurcated beam radiation for cylindrical lens antenna system. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2016 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Tengah, Z. and Ali, M. T. and Rahman, N. H. A. and Pasya, I. and Hamid, S. A. and Baba, N. H. and Yamada, Y. (2016) Design of serial feeds for a bifurcated beam of bend-array configuration. In: 7th IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Applied Electromagnetics, APACE 2016, 11-13 Dec 2016, Kedah, Malaysia. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85020263585&doi=10.1109%2fAPACE.2016.7916471&partnerID=40&md5=b5c77fcfb1e0b88ddab704faa946fdc1
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topic T Technology (General)
spellingShingle T Technology (General)
Tengah, Z.
Ali, M. T.
Rahman, N. H. A.
Pasya, I.
Hamid, S. A.
Baba, N. H.
Yamada, Y.
Design of serial feeds for a bifurcated beam of bend-array configuration
description This paper presents the design of serial feed radiators in cylindrical lens antenna system for mobile base station application. The authors are developing a cylindrical lens antenna featuring a simple configuration compared to the present array antenna configuration. In order to achieve the cylindrical lens antenna, bifurcated beam radiation shall be produced by the feed elements. In this paper, the bifurcated beam is achieved by adopting a bend-array configuration, consisting of four rectangular array elements with serial feed network. To ensure good and balance performance of the array antenna, the orientation of electric fields and the excitation amplitude of each element are considered. The optimized array structure is then arranged in bended structure to obtain the bifurcated beam pattern. To verify the radiation characteristic, simulation result of the bifurcated beam radiation is shown in terms of the current distribution. Good agreement between the beam pattern and the current distribution is obtained, showing that the serial feed network is accurate and effective to produce the bifurcated beam radiation for cylindrical lens antenna system.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Tengah, Z.
Ali, M. T.
Rahman, N. H. A.
Pasya, I.
Hamid, S. A.
Baba, N. H.
Yamada, Y.
author_facet Tengah, Z.
Ali, M. T.
Rahman, N. H. A.
Pasya, I.
Hamid, S. A.
Baba, N. H.
Yamada, Y.
author_sort Tengah, Z.
title Design of serial feeds for a bifurcated beam of bend-array configuration
title_short Design of serial feeds for a bifurcated beam of bend-array configuration
title_full Design of serial feeds for a bifurcated beam of bend-array configuration
title_fullStr Design of serial feeds for a bifurcated beam of bend-array configuration
title_full_unstemmed Design of serial feeds for a bifurcated beam of bend-array configuration
title_sort design of serial feeds for a bifurcated beam of bend-array configuration
publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
publishDate 2016
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/73669/
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