%0 Conference Proceedings %T A low-profile and high-gain continuous transverse stub antenna using PCB-air hybrid technology %+ Institut d'Électronique et des Technologies du numéRique (IETR) %A Potelon, T. %A Ettorre, M. %A Sauleau, R. %A Bateman, T. %A Francey, J. %< avec comité de lecture %B 2016 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, APSURSI 2016 %C Puerto Rico, United States %I Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. %P 1707--1708 %8 2016-06-26 %D 2016 %R 10.1109/APS.2016.7696560 %Z Computer Science [cs]/Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI] %Z Engineering Sciences [physics]/ElectronicsConference papers %X We present the design and simulation of a high-gain low-profile Continuous Transverse Stub (CTS) antenna array excited by a parallel-plate PCB-made Beam Forming Network (BFN). The radiating part consists of 32 radiating slots fed in parallel by hollow parallel-plate waveguides. The pillbox coupler exciting the CTS array is designed on a dual-layer organic dielectric stack-up using SIW technology. This PCB-air hybrid assembly technique reduces the fabrication complexity of the entire antenna system, and simultaneously allows minimizing the total insertion loss. The antenna is matched below -19dB over the 71-86GHz band, and its gain remains larger than 30dBi within a +/-9° scanning range across the same frequency band. The overall antenna efficiency is higher than 50%. This flat antenna solution is attractive for high-performance backhaul communication systems in E-band. © 2016 IEEE. %G English %L hal-01416323 %U https://univ-rennes.hal.science/hal-01416323 %~ UNIV-NANTES %~ UNIV-RENNES1 %~ CNRS %~ INSA-RENNES %~ IETR %~ IETR_SRC %~ STATS-UR1 %~ CENTRALESUPELEC %~ UR1-HAL %~ UR1-MATH-STIC %~ UR1-UFR-ISTIC %~ IETR-BEAMS %~ IETR-ADH %~ TEST-UNIV-RENNES %~ TEST-UR-CSS %~ UNIV-RENNES %~ INSA-GROUPE %~ UR1-MATH-NUM %~ IETR-SUMIT %~ NANTES-UNIVERSITE %~ UNIV-NANTES-AV2022 %~ TEST3-HALCNRS