This paper presents a new 4×4 millimeter-wave antenna array, which adopts the magneto-electric dipole as the radiating element and a type of coplanar waveguide feed network to excite the array. This design not only provides very wide impedance and gain bandwidths, but also has features of low cost and ease in fabrication. The simulated and measured results reveal that this array exhibits a wide impedance bandwidth of 54.5% and a wide 3 dB gain bandwidth of 37.1%. Over the operating frequency band (40.2~70.0 GHz), the maximum gain is 18.1 dBi. However, other 4×4 millimeter-wave antenna arrays, designed based on microstrip patch antenna or electric dipole antenna, have the operating bandwidth of about 20% and the gain of 16~17 dBi. Hence, the proposed antenna has an obvious advantage. In addition, the simulated and measured results have a good agreement.
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