Single-Band-Notched Ultra-Wideband Low-Sidelobe Planar Array Antenna for Millimeter-Wave Applications

A single-band-notched ultra-wideband (UWB) low-sidelobe planar array antenna for millimeter-wave (mmWave) applications is presented. The antenna element employs a planar dipole excited through an H-shaped coupling slot to achieve broadband impedance matching, while a centrally loaded parasitic patch acts as a half-wavelength resonator to generate a controllable notch band. Additional parasitic patches are introduced to recover the high-frequency matching without degrading the notch response. An 8×8 array is then developed using a Taylor-weighted feed network implemented with three classes of 1-to-4 microstrip power dividers. Measured results show that the array operates from 19.0 to 45.0 GHz with VSWR<2, while providing a rejection band from 35.0 to 38.5 GHz. The notch suppresses the realized gain by about 5 dB around 37.0 GHz, the peak gain reaches 20.5 dBi in the passband, and average sidelobe levels better than −17 dB are obtained. The proposed design provides a practical approach for combining ultra-wide bandwidth, in-band interference rejection, and low-sidelobe radiation in a compact mmWave planar array.