The invention discloses a
broadband magnetoelectric
dipole antenna based on a bowknot-shaped polarization conversion metasurface, and belongs to the technical field of magnetoelectric
dipole antennas. In order to solve the problems that an existing antenna is high in profile,
radiation and scattering performance is difficult to consider, and
broadband RCS reduction is difficult to achieve in a
Ka band, the antenna adopts three metallization
layers and two
dielectric substrates which are arranged in a staggered mode, and a PCM
checkerboard array composed of bowknot-shaped PCM units is integrated above a magnetoelectric
dipole radiation unit; the magnetoelectric
dipole radiation unit adopts a coplanar design, comprises four
radiation patches serving as electric dipoles and two perforated annular
microstrip feeder lines serving as magnetic dipoles, and feeds through a 50-
ohm coaxial feed port arranged at the bottom of the magnetoelectric
dipole radiation unit. The overall thickness of the antenna is only 0.762 mm, the low profile is achieved, and meanwhile the antenna has the comprehensive excellent performance of wide
impedance matching (23.26%, 30.4-38.4 GHz), high
gain (the
peak value is 11.9 dBi) and ultra-
wideband RCS reduction (gt, 10 dB, and the
relative bandwidth is 63.83%, 28.9-56 GHz).