Two-step Structural Design of Mesh Antennas for High Beam Pointing Accuracy

A well-designed reflector surface with high beam pointing accuracy in electromagnetic performance is of practical significance to the space application of cable mesh reflector antennas. As for space requirements, cir- cular polarizations are widely used in spaceborne antennas, which usually lead to a beam shift for offset reflectors and influence the beam pointing accuracy. A two-step structural design procedure is proposed to overcome the beam squint phenomenon for high beam pointing accuracy design of circularly polarized offset cable mesh reflectors. A simple structural optimal design and an integrated structural electromagnetic optimization are combined to alleviate the beam squint effect of circular polarizations. It is imple- mented by cable pretension design and adjustment to shape the offset cable mesh surface. Besides, in order to increase the efficiency of integrated optimization, an update Broy- den-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno （BFGS） Hessian matrix is employed in the optimization iteration with sequential quadratic programming. A circularly polarized offset cable mesh reflector is utilized to show the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed procedure. A high beam pointing accuracy in order of 0.0001~ of electromagnetic performance is achieved.

Compact wideband microstrip array antenna with beam squint

A compact wideband microstrip array antenna with a squint beam is introduced without the matched load. Its measured beam is at 10° offset to the broadside with a measured gain of 12 dB at 10 GHz. The measured impedance bandwidth （voltage standing wave ratio （VSWR）≤2） is over 16%, which agrees well with the simulated one. It is a low-cost wideband design with compact simple structure, suited for military and commercial application.

Beam squint effect on high-throughput millimeter-wave communication with an ultra-massive phased array

An ultra-massive phased array can be deployed in high-throughput millimeter-wave(mmWave)communication systems to increase the transmission distance.However,when the signal bandwidth is large,the antenna array response changes with the frequency,causing beam squint.In this paper,we investigate the beam squint effect on a high-throughput mmWave communication system with the single-carrier frequency-domain equalization transmission scheme.Specifically,we first view analog beamforming and the physical channel as a spatial equivalent channel.The characteristics of the spatial equivalent channel are analyzed which behaves like frequency-selective fading.To eliminate the deep fading points in the spatial equivalent channel,an advanced analog beamforming method is proposed based on the Zadoff-Chu(ZC)sequence.Then,the low-complexity linear zero-forcing and minimum mean squared error equalizers are considered at the receiver.Simulation results indicate that the proposed ZC-based analog beamforming method can effectively mitigate the performance loss by the beam squint.