TH3A_04 2016 IEEE 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation (APCAP)

Design of SIW fed Antipodal Linearly Tapered Slot

Antennas with Curved and Hat Shaped Dielectric
Loadings at 60 GHz for Wireless Communications
T. Rama Rao1, C. Sarath1, Nishesh Tiwari1 and Rajeev Jyoti2
1
RADMIC, Department of Telecommunication Engineering, SRM University, Chennai 603203, India.
2
Satellite Application Center, ISRO, Ahmedabad, India
sarathtly@gmail.com, nitizaz@gmail.com, ramaraot@outlook.com

Abstract - A substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) based

antipodal linear tapered slot antenna (ALTSA) with dielectric
loading at 60 GHz for wireless communication applications are
presented. The antenna ALTSA 1 with hat-shaped dielectric
loading has gain of 17.29 dB. The gain of another antenna
ALTSA 2 is 18.18 dB which is constructed by adding a curved
dielectric slab loading on top of ALTSA 1 and showed good
efficiency of about 95%. The ALTSA 1 designed using Rogers
RT/Duroid 6002 material with dielectric constant 2.94 and
thickness of 0.254 mm. And, Rogers Ultralam 1217 with
dielectric constant 2.17 and thickness of 1 mm is used for
ALTSA 2. Ansys HFSS and CST MWS were used for the
electromagnetic (EM) simulation and computation of antennas.

Index Terms antenna design, antipodal linear tapered slot

antenna, dielectric loading, millimeter wave, substrate
integrated waveguide.
Fig. 1. Antenna geometry of ALTSA 1.
I. INTRODUCTION
TABLE I
60-GHz band wireless high speed communication ANTENNA DIMENSIONS

applications have received much attention from engineers

recently. The FCC has allocated the license-free band that Parameter DielectricSubstrate:RT/Duriod
(r=2.94, h=0.254mm)
operates in between 57-64 GHz. The 60 GHz band frequency Symbol Value mm
spectrum has been assigned to permit high speed multi- ALTSA Length La 39.1
gigabit communication links. It allows very high data rate ALTSA Width Wa 6.8
with security in data transmission. In 60 GHz band, the Microstrip Line Width Wm 0.65
SIW Effective Width Wsiw 3.1
propagation characteristics are limited by high levels of rain Diameter of Vias d 0.5
attenuation and oxygen absorption [1] which provides Pitch of Vias s 0.68
security and frequency reuse. The antipodal linear tapered Corrugation Width Wc 0.25
slot antenna (ALTSA) is a very good candidate for millimeter Space between Corrugation Wcs 0.2
Length of corrugation Lc 0.6
wave wireless communication applications [2]. Substrate
integrated waveguide (SIW) is used to feed the antennas. In
For the proposed works, the design in [3] is taken as
this paper, SIW based ALTSAs with dielectric loading at 60
reference and some modification is done to [3] by continuing
GHz for wireless communication applications are proposed.
the SIW plated vias along the antenna length and a hat-
Ansys HFSS and CST MWS tools were utilized for the
shaped dielectric loading is added. Fig. 2 shows the simulated
simulation and computations of the antennas.
return loss of the antenna. It is observed that the return loss is
below -10 dB from 50 GHz - 70 GHz. The return loss is -23
II. DESIGN AND SIMULATION
dB at 60 GHz. The radiation pattern of the antenna is shown
Fig. 1 shows geometric configuration of the designed 60 in Fig. 3. It is observed that the gain of the antenna is 17.29
GHz SIW based antenna ALTSA 1. The dimensions of the dB. It is observed that the side lobe level in E-plane is 23 dB
antenna are given in Table I. Rogers RT/Duroid 6002 is used below the main lobe level. Similarly the side lobe level in the
as substrate for the antenna which has a relative permittivity H-plane is 16 dB below the main lobe level. Further the 3 dB
of 2.94, loss tangent 0.0012 and thickness of 0.254 mm. beam-width in E-plane is observed to be 26 and the 3 dB

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beam width in H-plane is observed to be 36. The HFSS and

CST simulation results are observed to be similar.

Fig. 5. Return loss.

Fig. 2. Return loss.

Fig. 6. Radiation pattern.

Fig. 3. Radiation pattern.
TABLE II
Further to increase the gain, a curved dielectric slab is added COMPARISON OF ANTENNAS

on top of ALTSA 1 leading to design of ALTSA 2. Rogers Antenna Performance [2] [3] ALTSA ALTSA
Ultralam 1217 with dielectric constant 2.17 and thickness of 1 2
Gain (dBi) 16.2 16.2 17.29 18.18
1 mm is used for curved dielectric loading. Fig. 4 shows the Beamwidth (Degree) 34 - 26 20
ALTSA2 with curved dielectric loading on top of the hat Return loss(dB) -17 -60 -23 -23
shaped dielectric loading. Bandwidth(GHz) 59-64 50-70 50-70 55-65

Fig. 4. Antenna geometry of ALTSA2.
Fig. 5 shows the simulated return loss of the antenna. It is
observed that the return loss is below -10 dB from 55 GHz -
65 GHz. The return loss is -23 dB at 60 GHz. The radiation
pattern of the antenna is shown in Fig. 6. It is observed that
the side lobe level in E-plane is 13 dB below the main lobe
level. Similarly the side lobe level in the H-plane is 11 dB
below the main lobe level. Further the 3 dB beam-width in E-
plane is observed to be 20 and the 3 dB beam width in H-
plane is observed to be 36. It is observed that the gain of the
antenna is 18.18 dB. The simulation results of HFSS and
CST are observed to be similar. Table II lists the comparison
with other antennas.
III. CONCLUSION
The SIW fed corrugated ALTSA with dielectric loading
designed and simulated for 60 GHz wireless communications.
The designed ALTSAs have better return loss, small size and
good gain. Millimeter-wave based wireless applications will
proliferate very widely in the near future and it is expected
that these developed ALTSAs are suitable for the use of
ultra-high speed wireless communication applications.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Authors are very much obliged to ISRO, Government of
India, for the continued support provided for the execution of
this research work.
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