Volume 31, Issue 7 e22668
RESEARCH ARTICLE

A tri-band spoof surface plasmon polaritons based antenna for endfire radiation

Sayan Sarkar

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Sayan Sarkar

Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

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Sayan Sarkar, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Jadavpur University, 188, Raja S.C Mallick Road, Kolkata 700078, India.

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Bhaskar Gupta

Bhaskar Gupta

Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

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First published: 30 March 2021
Citations: 2

Abstract

This article proposes a planar antenna, which exhibits endfire radiation patterns at three distinct frequency bands. The main radiator consists of a coplanar waveguide fed comb-shaped spoof surface plasmon polaritons based antenna placed on top of a microwave substrate. An L-shaped stub like structure is added to the bottom of the substrate and is coupled electromagnetically to the main radiator. The resulting antenna operates in three frequency bands. It achieves endfire radiation between 7.6 and 7.75 GHz (first band), 8.4 to 8.68 GHz (second band) and 12.4 to 13 GHz (third band) with maximum measured gains of 7, 7.5, and 7.7 dBi respectively. The antenna has a maximum simulated efficiency of 86% at 7.7 GHz, 96% at 8.5 GHz, and 92% at 12.6 GHz. The structure also exhibits frequency dependent endfire beam scanning within the 12.4 to 13 GHz band in the xy plane (plane of the antenna), achieving a total scan range of 210 from phi = −190 to phi = 20.

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