Abstract:Aiming at the narrowband problem of traditional resonant cavity antenna(RCA), a novel wideband resonant cavity antenna with compact partially reflective surface(PRS) for X-band is presented. PRS is a dielectric slab with double-deck periodic arraystructure, which can provide relatively higher gain performance with compact structure. Inaddition,the reflection coefficient phase gradient of PRS is positive in wider band, The feedantenna is a wideband aperture-coupled patch antenna, which is composed of square patchantenna, ground plane with rectangular slot and Y-shaped feed network, The simulationresults show that the relative bandwidth of RCA is 22. 3% and the gain is between 12. 78 dBiand 14.00 dBi in X-band.