Waveguide-Stripline Series-Corporate Hybrid Feed Technique for Dual-Polarized Antenna Array Applications

This paper proposes a waveguide-stripline series-corporate hybrid feed technique to ease the feed-network design for dual-polarized antenna arrays. The hybrid feed network consists of a stripline series feed network and a waveguide-stripline corporate feed network, incorporating both of their advantages in one application. Furthermore, the design can efficiently simplify the manufacturing and packaging process without any bonding postprocess. The proposed technique is realized on an 8x8 dual-polarized antenna array, and the expected performances are verified by measurement. Experimental results show that the antenna array can operate in a wide bandwidth of 13.2% with more than 40 dB isolation for dual polarization. Cross polarizations at the center frequency of 15.2 GHz are below -27 dB, and the achievable aperture efficiency is 80% for both the polarizations. This hybrid feed approach can be considered as a promising solution for efficient feed-network applications.