Alexey Artemenko

Millimeter-Wave Electronically Steerable Integrated Lens Antennas for WLAN/WPAN Applications

This paper presents design and experimental verification of electronically steerable integrated lens antennas (ILAs) for WLAN/WPAN communication systems operating in the 60-GHz frequency band. The antenna is comprised of a quartz extended hemispherical lens, four switched aperture coupled microstrip antenna (ACMA) elements, and a distribution circuit based on SPDT MMIC switches. The designed ILAs are capable of electronic steering between four different antenna main beam directions in one plane. Fixed beam and electronically steerable ILA prototypes are fabricated and tested. The results are given for two quartz dielectric lenses with the radii of 7.5 and 12.5 mm in order to meet a wide range of WLAN/WPAN requirements. The measured maximum gains of the designed ILAs are 18.4 and 23.2 dBi. The experimental results of the fabricated electronically steerable quartz ILA prototypes prove the simulation results and show

Experimental Characterization of E-Band Two-Dimensional Electronically Beam-Steerable Integrated Lens Antennas

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Impact of mounting structures twists and sways on point-to-point millimeter-wave backhaul links

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Electronically beam steerable lens antenna for 71–76/81–86 GHz backhaul applications

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Compact MIMO Microstrip Antennas for USB Dongle Operating in 2.5–2.7 GHz Frequency Band

angle sector coverage for the lenses with the 7.5 and 12.5 mm radii, respectively. The bandwidth of the ILAs exceeds the frequency band of 57–66 GHz allocated for WLAN/WPAN applications. The designed ILAs meet all the requirements for steerable directional antennas of 60-GHz WLAN/WPAN systems.

Compact bandwidth-optimized two element MIMO antenna system for 2.5 – 2.7 GHz band

This letter presents design of E-band integrated lens antennas (ILAs) with two-dimensional (2-D) fully electronical beam-steering capability. Two extended hemispherical quartz lenses with the radii of 7.5 and 12.5 mm and a feeding printed circuit board (PCB) with 16 aperture-coupled microstrip antenna (ACMA) elements arranged in a 2-D order together with a switching circuit were fabricated for experimental verification. A set of the directivity and radiation patterns measurements of the scanning antenna at 77 and 85 GHz is presented. It is shown that the ILA with the radius of 12.5 mm provides the coverage within the solid angle in any direction from the lens axis with the directivity not lower than 20 dBi in the covered area. The ILA with the radius of 7.5 mm provides higher coverage (within ), but with the lower directivity of 16 dBi. A good agreement between the electromagnetic simulations and the measurements is demonstrated. The designed ILAs can be effectively used in different millimeter-wave applications such as WLAN/WPAN communications, automotive radars, imaging systems, and millimeter-wave radio backhaul systems.

Compact 2.5–2.7 GHz two element MIMO antenna system for modern USB dongle

This paper investigates an impact of twists and sways of mounting structures on the performance of point-topoint millimeter-wave backhaul links. Characteristics of twists and sways are studied by experimental measurements performed on different telecom infrastructure sites and municipal sites considered for small cells installations. The measurements are done in four cities in Russia and Finland in the period from June to November 2014. Statistical distributions of the twists and sways amplitudes are derived from the experimental data and applied for analysis of the impact that such deflections may have on performance of the millimeter-wave links. An enhanced approach for channel availability estimation is proposed where two statistical parameters are involved as random channel attenuation values: rain absorption and losses caused by antenna deflections due to twists and sways. To illustrate the practical usefulness of the approach, link gain degradations and channel availabilities are calculated for several practical scenarios. For example, it is found that for 20 beamwidth antennas and realistic sways of typical thin lamp poles available in most cities, the received power level may decrease from 2 dB and up to 20 dB. That gives essentially different results for the link distance prediction relative to the case when the twists and sways effects are not taken into account.

Beam steerable quartz integrated lens antenna for 60 GHz frequency band

Design of an electronically beam steerable integrated lens antenna suitable for 71-76/81-86 GHz backhaul applications is presented. The lens is made from a thermoplastic material and has the aperture size (diameter) of 260 mm ensuring a half power beam width below 1°. The beam steering capability is provided by an antenna array of 4 microstrip patch feed elements and a single pole four through MMIC switch mounted on a high frequency printed circuit board. The half-power (-3 dB) overlapping level of the adjacent beams is achieved by selecting a proper distance between the feed elements in the array. The lens antenna has a WR-12 waveguide interface and can be easily integrated with traditional millimeter-wave radio systems. Measurement results of the fabricated lens antenna prototype with electronic beam steering are provided. A successful trial of the prototype was performed with a commercial 71-76/81-86 GHz system during a 3-month test at a mobile operators network.

Design of wideband waveguide to microstrip transition for 60 GHz frequency band

This paper considers design of microstrip MIMO antennas for an LTE/WiMAX USB dongle operating in the 2.5–2.7 GHz frequency band. The MIMO system includes two antenna elements with an additional requirement of high isolation between them that is especially difficult to realize due to size limitations of a USB dongle. Three approaches to achieve the needed system characteristics using microstrip PCB antennas are proposed. For the first design, high port-to-port isolation is achieved by using a decoupling techniques based on a direct connection of the antenna elements. For the second approach, high port-to-port isolation of the MIMO antenna system is realized by a lumped decorrelation capacitance between antenna elements feeding points. The third proposed antenna system does not use any special techniques, and high port-to-port isolation is achieved by using only the properties of a developed printed inverted-F antenna element. The designed MIMO antenna systems have the return loss S11 and the insertion loss S21 bandwidths of more than 200 MHz at the −8 dB level with the correlation coefficient lower than 0.1 and exhibit pattern diversity when different antenna elements are excited. Experimental measurements of the fabricated antenna systems proved the characteristics obtained from electromagnetic simulation.