Liu Huazhu

A Low VSWR and High Efficiency Waveguide Feed Antenna Array

A low VSWR and high efficiency antenna array operating in the Ku band for satellite communications is presented in this paper. To achieve high radiation efficiency and broad enough bandwidth, all-metal radiation elements and full-corporate waveguide feeding network are employed. As the general milling method is used in the multilayer antenna array fabrication, the -plane waveguide feeding network is adopted here to suppress the wave leakage caused by the imperfect connectivity between adjacent layers. A 4 × 8 elements array prototype was fabricated and tested for verification. The measured results of proposed antenna array show bandwidth of 6.9% (13.9–14.8 GHz) for VSWR < 1.5. Furthermore, antenna gain and efficiency of higher than 22.2 dBi and 80% are also exhibited, respectively.

Small amplitude approximation and stabilities for dislocation motion in a superlattice

Starting from the traveling wave solution, in small amplitude approximation, the Sine—Gordon equation can be reduced to a generalized Duffing equation to describe the dislocation motion in a superlattice, and the phase plane properties of the system phase plane are described in the absence of an applied field. The stabilities are also discussed in the presence of an applied field. It is pointed out that the separatrix orbit describing the dislocation motion as the kink wave may transfer the energy along the dislocation line, keep its form unchanged, and reveal the soliton wave properties of the dislocation motion. It is stressed that the dislocation motion process is the energy transfer and release process, and the system is stable when its energy is minimum.