A Dual-band Broadband Conical Beam Antenna Based on TM₀₁ and TM₀₂ mode

A dual-band broadband conical beam antenna operating at Ku-/ Ka-band is presented in this paper. The proposed antenna adopts a novel across-layer folded structure which consists of two substrates. A circular patch with coupling slot is printed on the lower substrate as a monopole at Ku-band, and a circular patch and a loop patch are printed on the upper substrate to achieve operating at Ka-band. A wideband performance is obtained by introducing shorting vias to excite TM
01
and TM
02
mode in both bands. The simulation results show that the proposed antenna operates at 11.74 GHz-14.47 GHz in Ku-band and 32.20 GHz-35.63 GHz in Ka-band with 10 dB impedance bandwidth of 20.8% and 10.1%. And conical beam radiation patterns are achieved within the two bands, the peak gains in the lower and upper bands are 5.4 dBi and 9.9 dBi respectively.