A new millimeter-wave printed dipole phased array antenna using microstrip-fed coplanar stripline Tee junctions

A new millimeter-wave printed twin dipole phased array antenna is developed at Ka band using a new microstrip-fed CPS Tee junction, which does not require any bonding wires, air bridges, or via holes. The phased array used a piezoelectric transducer (PET) controlled tunable multitransmission line phase shifter to accomplish a progressive phase shift. A progressive phase shift of 88.8degrees is achieved with the 5 mm of perturber length when the PET has full deflection. Measured return loss of the twin dipole antenna is better than 10 dB from 29.5 to 30.35 GHz. Measured return loss of better than 15 dB is achieved from 30 to 31.5 GHz for a 1 x 8 phased array. The phased array antenna has a measured antenna gain of 14.4 dBi with 42degrees beam scanning and has more than 11 dB side lobe suppression across the scan.