Broadband probe-fed patch antenna with a W-shaped ground plane

A new design of a broadband probe-fed patch antenna with a W-shaped ground plane is presented. The W-shaped ground plane is obtained by bending the conventional planar ground plane into an inverted V-shape, seen in the resonant direction of the patch antenna and then adding proper flanges at the two straight edges of the bent ground plane. The proposed design is applicable to the patch antenna with a planar radiating patch with a thin air substrate. With the use of the proposed W-shaped ground plane, the required probe-pin length in the substrate remains small, although the effective substrate thickness is significantly increased, resulting in a much wider operating bandwidth. Also, by choosing proper dimensions of the W-shaped ground plane, the antenna gain for frequencies over the obtained wide bandwidth is enhanced, compared to the conventional patch antenna with a planar ground plane. In addition, the cross polarization is also reduced for the proposed design and the cross-polarization level (XPL) in the H-plane pattern can even be better than that of a conventional probe-fed patch antenna with a thin air substrate     

Wideband small patch antenna

A small patch antenna fed by a coaxial probe with a wideband characteristic is presented. By employing dual shorting pins and cutting a slot in the patch, the size of the patch antenna is reduced while its impedance bandwidth is enhanced. The resonant frequency can be reduced by /spl sim/75% when compared with the resonance edge of a conventional patch antenna. The antenna has an impedance bandwidth of 21.5% (SWR<=2) and maximum gain of 2.2 dBi.     

A broad-band rectangular patch antenna with a pair of wide slits

A new broad-band design of a probe-fed rectangular patch antenna with a pair of wide slits is proposed and experimentally studied. The proposed design is with an air substrate, and experimental results show that, simply by inserting a pair of wide slits at one of the radiating edges of the rectangular patch, good impedance matching over a wide bandwidth can easily be achieved for the proposed antenna. With an air substrate of thickness about 8% of the wavelength of the center operating frequency, the proposed antenna can have an impedance bandwidth of about 24%. For frequencies within the impedance bandwidth, good radiation characteristics are also observed, with a peak antenna gain of about 7.2 dBi     

Broad-band single-patch circularly polarized microstrip antennawith dual capacitively coupled feeds

New design of a circular microstrip antenna with dual capacitively coupled feeds for broad-band circular polarization radiation is presented. The dual feeds are with a small top-loaded disk and are connected to a Wilkinson power divider with a 90° phase shift between its two output feedlines. The radiating circular patch, printed on a thin substrate, is supported by nonconducting posts on a conducting ground plane and is excited capacitively through the dual feeds. With a distance less than 10% times the center operating wavelength between the circular patch and the ground plane, the present proposed antenna can provide an impedance bandwidth (VSWR ⩽2) of about 49% and a 3-dB axial-ratio bandwidth of about 35%. The antenna gain bandwidth, defined to be within 1-dB gain variation in the axial-ratio bandwidth, is as large as 28%, with the antenna gain level at about 7.0 dBi     

WLAN小型双频微带天线的设计与分析

在分析传统缝隙微带天线的基础上,用传输线和空腔模型设计了一种可用于WiFi、WiMAX的WLAN微带天线。在贴片与接地板之间引入短路面使天线实现小型化,在贴片上开U型缝隙产生双频辐射,采用较低介电常数的介质基板和添加空气腔展宽了天线的带宽。仿真结果表明,当电压驻波比VSWR<2.0时,天线在2.45 GHz带宽为200 MHz(2.35～2.55 GHz),增益达到3.8 dB;在5.2 GHz带宽为1 050 MHz(5.0～6.05 GHz)增益达到8.8 dB。该天线覆盖了WLAN的所有频段,整体性能良好,增益较高,结构简单,易于实现,可以为实际无线通信系统的应用提供参考。     

A High Gain and Broadband C-Band Aperture-Coupled Patch Antenna

A aperture-coupled patch antenna is designed with parasitic elements connecting to the rectangle ring on the bottom of antenna substrate through metal vias, which lead the current induced by patch radiator to the top surface of antenna substrate. Therefore, the effective radiation is enhanced and higher gain is achieved. The bandwidth is broadened simultaneously due to the structure of aperture-coupled patch antenna with parasitic elements. Compared to the conventional aperture-coupled patch antenna, the antenna gain increases averagely 2 dB due to the novel structure. Compared to patch antenna of electromagnetic band-gap, the dimensions of novel patch antenna greatly decreases, which can be used as element in the array antenna. Two kinds manufactured antenna are both measured in an anechoic chamber. The good agreements between numerical simulation and experimental prototype have been obtained.     

小型化缝隙加载圆极化及宽带微带贴片天线设计

提出了一种十字形缝隙加载的小型宽带及圆极化微带贴片天线的设计方法。该天线通过在方形贴片上加载一个大尺寸的十字形缝隙实现天线的尺寸缩减,介质基片采用由FR4和空气层组成的层叠结构,在缝隙中嵌入L型枝节,只需通过调整枝节上同轴线馈电点的位置来获得圆极化或宽带阻抗匹配。ANSYS HFSS仿真分析表明,天线的圆极化带宽（AR≤3 dB）为1.7%,阻抗带宽（VSWR≤2）为5.8%,天线在宽带范围内具有稳定的增益,峰值增益为7.8 dB,同时贴片面积缩减了52.3%。改变馈电点的位置可调节两个谐振频率使天线阻抗带宽达到9.4%,比传统的微带贴片天线阻抗带宽提高了114%。     

Circularly-Polarized Wide Slot Antenna Loaded With a Parasitic Patch

A design is described of a broadband circularly-polarized (CP) slot antenna. A conventional annular-ring slot antenna is first analyzed, and it is found that two adjacent CP modes can be simultaneously excited through the proximity coupling of an L-shaped feed line. By tuning the dimensions of this L-shaped feed line, the two CP modes can be coupled together and a broad CP bandwidth is thus formed. The design method is also valid when the inner circular patch of the annular-ring slot antenna is vertically raised from the ground plane. In this case, the original band-limited ring slot antenna is converted into a wide-band structure that is composed of a circular wide slot and a parasitic patch, and consequently the CP bandwidth is further enhanced. For the patch-loaded wide slot antenna, its key parameters are investigated to show how to couple the two CP modes and achieve impedance matching. The effects of the distance between the parasitic patch and wide slot on the CP bandwidth and antenna gain are also presented and discussed in details.      

基于皱褶软地表面的微带天线的研究

研究了基于皱褶软地表面的微带天线。通过对普通微带天线和采用软地表面的微带天线的输入回波损耗、辐射方向图、带宽和增益等的比较，发现该结构的软表面可以增加天线的带宽，抑制天线的背瓣，并使H面的辐射方向图和E面趋于一致。     

Ultra-wideband antipodal slot antenna with improved radiation performance

A novel antipodal wide-slot antenna for ultra-wideband (UWB) applications is proposed and studied in detail. The antenna is fed by a microstrip line terminated with a rectangular tuning patch. An antipodal structure is employed to improve the radiation performances. The return losses, surface E-field, current distribution, radiation patterns and gains of the antenna are numerically and experimentally investigated. Results show that the proposed antipodal antenna has an impedance bandwidth from 0.79 to 4.0?GHz, which is about 5:1. Compared with conventional rectangular wide-slot antenna, more stable radiation pattern with lower cross-polarisation level and flatter gain variation over a 3:1 bandwidth can be obtained. Thus, the proposed antenna should be more suitable for future UWB-multiple-input multiple-output applications using polarisation diversity than conventional UWB rectangular slot antennas.     

High Gain Patch Antenna with Composite Right-Left Handed Structure and Dendritic Cell Metamaterials

We present a novel high-gain patch antenna utilizing composite right-left handed (CRLH) structure and dendritic cell metamaterials. The proposed CRLH antenna, composed of modified Sievenpiper mushroom unit-cells, is based on the positive first-order resonance mode for high gain. In addition, the dendritic cell metamaterials are used to surround the proposed antenna to further increase the antenna directivity and gain due to suppressing the surface waves. The experimental results show that the gain and the directivity of the proposed antenna with CRLH and dendritic cells can be improved by 3.88 dB and 8.82, respectively, in comparison with a conventional patch antenna. Moreover, a 10-dB bandwidth with 9.55% is achieved. The measured results are in good agreement with the simulated ones.     

Design of a broadband planar cavity-backed circular patch antenna

This paper presents a design of a low-profile cavity-backed circular patch antenna for broadband applications. By using substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) based cavity and feeding mechanism, a planar cavity-backed patch antenna is realized. The proposed study demonstrates that a wide impedance bandwidth can be achieved by employing a rectangular SIW-based cavity underneath the conventional circular patch. Additionally, to generate circular polarization (CP), the patch has been reduced diagonally and shorted by a via-probe. Finally, a CP SIW-based antenna is designed and operating for a wide impedance bandwidth of 23.10% below −10 dB criteria, ranging from 9.09 GHz to 11.40 GHz and axial-ratio (AR) bandwidth of 270 MHz (10.30–10.57 GHz). The proposed design is fabricated by means of a printed circuit board (PCB) procedure. The simulated results are validated with the experimental one which agrees well with each other in the terms of S₁₁, antenna gain, AR and radiation patterns. Moreover, the proposed design exhibits unidirectional radiation characteristics with the measured peak gain of 6.6 dBic while maintaining planar integration.     

A Novel Graphene Conductive Ink Based Circular Patch Antenna for 2.4 GHz Application

Graphene conductive ink based microstrip line fed circular patch is presented in this paper. The main objective of this work is to replace copper with graphene which is an emerging promising material, in the field of patch antennas with conventional rigid substrates using a simple printing technique and to measure its performance. The prototyped screen printed graphene antenna is perfectly radiating and the return loss, VSWR and gain of the graphene antenna is found to be better than conventional copper antenna. Also, the bandwidth of the graphene antenna is 1.6 times greater than that of the conventional copper antenna on rigid substrate.

     

Miniature multilayer shorted patch antenna

A novel two-layer rectangular shorted patch antenna is described. The patch antenna is supported by a foam substrate. The resonant frequency is reduced by 71% when compared to that of a conventional patch antenna with the same projection area. The bandwidth (SWR<2) and gain are, respectively, 11% and 0 dBi     

Compact and miniaturized microstrip antenna based on fractal and metamaterial loads with reconfigurable qualification

We have described a compact antenna based on fractal and metamaterial loads techniques. The microstrip patch antenna is assumed as a basic antenna and then the effect of fractal structures is implemented. The fractal patch is considered as a right-handed element and then by adding a left-handed element, the antenna miniaturization is achieved by using the metamaterial loads technique. The equivalent circuit is also used to describe the element effect on miniaturization and parametric models clarify them. The proposed antenna is modified for wireless applications and experimental results confirm our simulation results. In addition, we show that the proposed antenna is suitable for reconfigurable. By joining the unit cells together with various arrangements and changing the effective length, the various inductances can be obtained. Finally, by adding reconfigurable characteristic to the proposed antenna, the gain and radiation pattern can be controlled as shows in this paper. The patch antenna has low bandwidth and gain and so we have developed the patch antenna with defected ground to improve the bandwidth and the Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) is used to achieve higher gain and bandwidth. The final antenna is covering 2.4, 3.5 and 5.5 GHz with higher gain than the patch antenna.     

Enhanced patch-antenna performance by suppressing surface wavesusing photonic-bandgap substrates

The microstrip patch antenna is a low-profile robust planar structure. A wide range of radiation patterns can be achieved with this type of antenna and, due to the ease of manufacture, is inexpensive compared with other types of antennas. However, patch-antenna designs have some limitations such as restricted bandwidth of operation, low gain, and a potential decrease in radiation efficiency due to surface-wave losses. In this paper, a photonic-bandgap (PBG) substrate for patch antennas is proposed, which minimizes the surface-wave effects. In order to verify the performance of this kind of substrate, a configuration with a thick substrate is analyzed. The PBG patch antenna shows significantly reduced levels of surface modes compared to conventional patch antennas, thus improving the gain and far-field radiation pattern     

手持RFID读写器微带天线的小型化设计

RFID读写器天线的小型化一直是研究的热点之一,利用HFSS进行了一款手持RFID读写器天线的设计。通过在微带天线的贴片以及在接地板上开槽,同时在贴片上面加载高介电常数介质基片的技术,设计出了一款小型紧凑的RFID矩形微带天线。它的尺寸仅为传统微带天线的68%左右,10dB回波损耗阻抗带宽50MHz,该天线能满足RFID系统的需求。     

Broadband probe-fed patch antenna with a U-shaped ground plane forcross-polarization reduction

A broadband probe-fed patch antenna with a novel three-dimensional (3D) U-shaped ground plane is proposed and experimentally studied. The proposed antenna has a thick air substrate, and by placing the two flanges of the U-shaped ground plane in parallel to and at a suitable distance from the radiating edges of the antenna's radiating patch, a wide impedance bandwidth (>25%) with much reduced cross-polarization radiation can be obtained, compared to the case with a conventional planar ground plane. In addition, enhanced antenna gain for the proposed antenna is also observed. Details of the proposed antenna and experimental results are presented and discussed     

Small circularly polarised folded patch antenna

A small circularly polarised (CP) patch antenna with dual T-shaped probe feeds is presented. The patch is folded like a cap to generate a CP wave as well as to reduce the size of the antenna. The proposed antenna is operated at the centre frequency of 2.28 GHz with circular polarisation. The impedance bandwidth (SWR<2) is 21.8% from 2 to 2.49 GHz and the axial ratio bandwidth (AR<3 dB) is 3.5%. The measured gain is around 7.5 dBi. The antenna shows a good CP performance with a symmetric radiation pattern. The total area of reduction is 54% in comparison with the conventional half-wave patch antenna.     

一种宽带WLAN贴片天线

文中提出了一种单馈的宽带贴片天线应用于无线局域网络通信。该天线由方形贴片、电抗性阻抗表面以及电磁带隙结构组成。文中提出同时加载电抗性阻抗表面和电磁带隙结构能够实现小型化以及宽带化。电抗性阻抗表面作为接地平面能够降低天线的谐振频率。电磁带隙结构能够提高天线的阻抗带宽。测试结果表明所提出的WLAN贴片天线的相对带宽为22.3%(S₁₁=-10 dB),覆盖4.77～5.97 GHz,可以获得6.3～7.2 dBi增益。与现有宽带小型化天线相比,该天线在保证宽带小型化的前提下仍具有较高增益,且辐射性能具有较高的一致性,十分有利于其应用。该天线能够覆盖IEEE 802.11a标准所规定的5 GHz频段,能够实现无线局域网之间的高速数传。