Designing a Novel THz Band 2-D Wide-Angle Scanning Phased-Array Antenna Based on a Decoupling Surface
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This paper proposes a novel THz band 2-D wide-angle scanning phased-array antenna (PAA) based on a decoupling surface. The simulated S11 bandwidth under periodic boundary conditions is 106–119 GHz, with stable gain within the bandwidth. The designed decoupling surface effectively reduces the coupling between elements, and the simulated active VSWR performance and ground surface current distribution under periodic boundary conditions confirm this. An 8 × 8 (64-element) planar PAA is modeled and simulated in CST2022 to verify the beam-scanning performance of the PAA. According to the simulation results, a 2-D wide-angle scanning of ±48° is achieved in the 106–114 GHz range, while in the 115–119 GHz range, a wide-angle scanning of ±48° is achieved on the E-plane, and the beam-scanning range on the H-plane reaches ±40°. Moreover, the normal peak gain is stably maintained at 21.9–22.8 dBi, with a normalized radiation efficiency as high as 95%, and the scanning radiation efficiency is higher than 81%. Due to its stable gain and 2-D wide-angle scanning performance, the proposed PAA has a broad application prospect in terahertz wireless communication equipment.
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OpenAlex topics: Antenna Design and Analysis · Microwave Engineering and Waveguides · Millimeter-Wave Propagation and Modeling
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Department of Information Engineering, Engineering University of PAP, Xi’an 710086, China
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