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Published in Lee, B., Harackiewicz, F.J., Jung, B., & Park, M.J., (2005). Cavity-backed slot antenna array for the repeater system of a satellite digital multimedia broadcasting service. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 4, 389 - 392. doi: 10.1109/LAWP.2005.857967 ©2005 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE. This material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying this information are expected to adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. In most cases, these works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder.

Abstract

For the repeater system of the satellite digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) service (2630~2655 MHz) requiring a high-gain antenna and enough isolation between antennas, a cavity-backed slot antenna array (CBSAA) fed by a single waveguide is proposed to suppress side lobe level (SLL) and to increase front-to-back ratio (FBR). The SLL and FBR are enhanced with an optimized magnitude ratio of the electric field at each slot and an additional vertical reflector. The measured SLLs in the Hand E-planes are under -33.24 and -35.78 dB, respectively. An FBR over 37.84 dB and a peak gain over 17 dBi are measured. The proposed CBSAA consists of 2 X 4 slot elements backed by a single cavity and has the characteristics of high power handling capability, high radiation efficiency, low feed line loss, and simple feed network.

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