Design of Broadband Dual-polarized Beam Switched Microstrip Antenna
Based on the remote(unmanned)control system for container yard at the port terminal,a broadband dual-polarized beam switched microstrip antenna system with simple control method and good realizability is proposed.The whole system is com-posed of microstrip array antenna and beam control circuit.Microstrip array antenna includes antenna array A and antenna array B.The dual polarization microstrip antenna adopts a new dual patch structure,which enables the antenna to achieve a wide working bandwidth and maintain a high polarization isolation.At the same time,the miniaturization of the antenna is realized by opening a square ring groove on the bottom radiation patch.The beam control circuit adopts SP6T radio frequency switch chip.Through rea-sonable circuit design and layout,two sets of radio frequency switches are integrated into one board,which can reduce the circuit size while ensuring low-loss,high-speed multi-beam switching.The measured results show that the bandwidth of the antenna rea-ches 21.8%(the reflection coefficient is less than-10 dB),and the isolation is greater than 20 dB.In the whole working fre-quency band,the six beams of the antenna system can seamlessly cover the working area of-90°~90°,the beam gain reaches 12 dBi,and the dual-polarization performance is good.
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