Wide-angle scanning phased-array system using arc-shorted half elliptic elements

Abstract

Vehicles to everything (V2X) communication includes a variety of types, so wide-angle scanning is integral. For wide-angle scanning, the half power beam width (HPBW) of a single antenna must be wide. Moreover, the gain, low cross-polarization level, and impedance bandwidth are essential factors in high communication performance. In this paper, a wide-angle scanning phased-array system using an arc-shorted half-elliptic patch antenna at 5.8 GHz is presented. The design of both a single antenna and the entire phased-array system are covered, and to verify the design method, the proposed single antenna and phased array system were fabricated. The proposed antenna had 162 HPBW in the E-plane and 8.63 dBi of peak gain. Its fractional bandwidth was 5%, and the level of cross-polarization was −16.8 dBi. Furthermore, the measured 3 dB scanning angle of the phased-array system was from to 90. The proposed system has wide-angle scanning.