Hybrid-coupled broadband triangular microstrip antennas

Two broadband configurations consisting of three hybrid-coupled equilateral and isosceles triangular microstrip antennas have been proposed. Both configurations yield more than four times the bandwidth as compared with the corresponding single triangular microstrip antenna. The radiation pattern of a hybrid-coupled isosceles triangular microstrip antenna is in the broadside direction with very small variation over the entire bandwidth. In addition, this antenna has wide half power beamwidth, making it suitable as an element for the large scan broadband antenna array.     

Compact broadband E-shaped microstrip antennas

A broadband E-shaped microstrip antenna is discussed. Its bandwidth is further increased by cutting a pair of tapered slots. Using the even-mode symmetry of an E-shaped microstrip antenna, a compact single slot loaded rectangular microstrip antenna is proposed, which reduces the antenna size by half.     

Compact broadband S-shaped microstrip antennas

A compact and broadband stacked S-shaped microstrip antenna with corner shorted square microstrip antenna is proposed. A broadband slotted S-shaped microstrip antenna is also proposed which does not require any parasitic patches.     

Two-layer five-patch broadband microstrip antennas

An aperture coupled five-patch broadband microstrip antenna which makes use of stacked and coplanar techniques is studied. It is demonstrated that the antenna can attain a bandwidth of ~45%. The radiation patterns and SWR of the antenna are presented. A comparison between theoretical and experimental results is made     

基于遗传算法的单层宽频带微带天线优化设计

宽带微带天线,尤其是单层宽带天线的设计较为困难.然而U型和E型微带天线提示我们,通过适当去除传统微带天线表面一些特殊位置的金属部分,可以展宽天线带宽.本文阐述了该类天线的工作原理,并详细描述通过采用遗传算法作为优化工具,以及在程序中直接调用IE3D的求解器(MOM)进行计算、提取相关参数进行GA优化的全过程.通过对普通方形贴片微带天线的仿真和实验,我们得到的天线带宽是优化前天线带宽的3倍多,证明了方法的可靠性和高效性.     

A BROADBAND FEEDING TECHNIQUE FOR MICROSTRIP PATCH ANTENNAS

In order to broaden the bandwidth of a microstrip patch antenna,a broadbandtwo-port feedingtechnique based on the principle of reactance compensation is suggested.The principle and some designguidelines are presented;the calculating model of a practical configuration as well as its parameteroptimization is demonstrated,followed by several kinds of test models With their experimental results.It isshown that this technique enables the VSWR bandwidth to be broadened to 2—3 or more times that of aconventional design for both linear and circular polarization operation.     

Circular polarised microstrip patch antennas for broadband and dual-band operation

A novel design of microstrip patch antennas for circular polarisation (CP) is proposed. As an example, two CP patch antennas are investigated: a broadband CP patch antenna and a dual-band CP patch antenna. The proposed structure can be achieved by embedding circular holes in the microstrip circular resonator. By changing the size and position of loaded holes, two orthogonal modes are simultaneously excited with equal amplitude and /spl plusmn/90/spl deg/ out of phase. Without any 90/spl deg/ phase-shifter, the proposed CP patch antennas are excited by single feed.     

Gradient-based adjoint-variable optimization of broadband microstrip antennas with mixed-order prism macroelements

This paper describes a new finite element method (FEM)-based adjoint-variable approach to design and optimization of planar microwave circuits using sensitivity analysis, with respect to small variations of their design parameters. The implementation is based on a specially developed class of mixed-order prismatic macroelements, suitable for an efficient analysis of planar microwave structures. Their use, combined with a simple probe feed model, not only reduces the overall computational effort but also facilitates a straightforward derivation of port parameter sensitivities. Explicit expressions are given for the adjoint solution and S-parameter sensitivity and the process is verified through the design and optimization of two slotted broadband microstrip patch antennas.     

Analysis of microstrip antennas using moment methods

The method of moments is used to analyze microstrip antennas of rectangular and nonrectangular shape. Surface currents are used to model the microstrip patch and volume polarization currents for the dielectric slab. The method requires unusually precise computation of the impedance matrix but is capable of accurately predicting currents, impedance, and resonant frequency of the antenna.     

Impedance control of microstrip antennas using reactive loading

It is shown that it is possible to change the input impedance of a microstrip antenna over a wide range without affecting its resonant frequency by moving short circuits along prescribed loci. This theory has been verified by experiment; specifically, it is shown that the resonant frequency of the mode is left relatively unchanged by the appropriate placement of the short circuit loads. The experiment also shows that the agreement between the predicted and observed input impedance is quite reasonable in most cases. There was qualitative agreement between theoretical antenna patterns and measured antenna patterns although the measured cross-polarized components in the double-loaded element were higher than expected from the theory. A single load, varying in position, was seen to provide a reasonable range of impedance variation while retaining a very nearly constant resonant frequency, although the resulting asymmetries in the magnetic current distribution caused a high level of cross-polarized fields. The use of two loads, instead, produced an even greater range of possible impedances, with reduced cross-polarization levels as well     

Bandwidth enhancement of microstrip patch antennas using coupledlines

A novel single-layer rectangular patch antenna using a coupled line feed is described. This coupled line matching technique increases the bandwidth of the patch antenna by a factor of more than 2.5 as compared to the normal edge-fed patch with the same geometrical dimension     

Planar FET oscillators using periodic microstrip patch antennas

An integrated oscillator/antenna is presented that uses a single microstrip leaky-wave structure as both the resonant and the radiating element. This resonant antenna is connected to a GaAs metal-semiconductor field-effect transistor which acts as the negative resistance element in the oscillator circuit. This type of oscillator is similar in its operating principle to one reported using Gunn diodes and a periodically notched dielectric image guide. This circuit exhibits the high DC-RF conversion efficiency that is typical of field-effect transistor oscillators. The planar circuit is simple and inexpensive to construct, occupies a small volume, and can conform to different surface profiles. Such circuits are suitable for use in millimeter-wave systems as well as at microwave frequencies. A design procedure is given, and the performance of X-band prototype circuits is reported. Prototype circuits showed a 9 dB isotropic conversion gain and 40 MHz tuning range at 9.5 GHz     

自主研发的智能宽频段天线

现有的无线电监测和测向天线，一直在沿用固定长度振子，或沿用以固定频段来分组的多层天线。这一做法存在种种缺陷；在同一监测塔上叠加很多组天线阵必然产生互耦；固定长度的天线还存在副瓣缺陷，影响测向的准确度；搬移式测向设备，人工调换天线振子很不方便，在北方冬季难以使用；天线振子的圆杆形状，对方向的选择性不强。这些缺陷必须加以克服，使测量手段向标准化方向迈进，才能卓有成效地开展工作。     

Design of multiband microstrip antennas using a genetic algorithm

A genetic algorithm (GA) is used to design patch shapes of microstrip antennas for multiband operations. For dual-band operation, the optimized patches show that arbitrary frequency spacing ranging from 1:1.1 to 1:2 can be achieved. Tri-band and quad-band microstrip shapes are also generated and the resulting designs show good operations at the designated frequencies. All results were verified by laboratory measurements on an FR-4 substrate.     

Analysis of microstrip wraparound antennas using dyadic Green's functions

The radiation pattern of microstrip wraparound antennas was obtained here using a theory based on dyadic Green's functions for concentric-cylindrical layered media. The dielectric layer that is usually neglected as a first-order approximation was considered here. An asymptotic expression for the dyadic Green's function that takes into account only the space wave is first obtained. Radiation patterns for various radii, permittivities, and thicknesses of the dielectric layer of a microstrip wraparound antenna were obtained using as a source a uniform annular magnetic current obtained by means of a cavity model with conducting magnetic walls. The calculated values of the percent pattern coverage decreases as the thickness and the permittivity of the dielectric layer increase. The influence of the dielectric layer is more pronounced for radiation direction near that of the axis of the cylindrical surface. It is also shown that the radiation patterns at a frequency of 2.0 GHz are not much dependent on the diameter of the antenna for values from 3 to 120 in.     

Conformal microstrip antennas and microstrip phased arrays

A new class of antennas using microstrips to form the feed networks and radiators is presented in this communication. These antennas have four distinct advantages: 1) cost, 2) performance, 3) ease of installation, and 4) the low profile conformal design. The application of these antennas is limited to small bandwidths. Phased arrays using these techniques are also discussed.     

Circular-waveguide-fed microstrip patch antennas

A microstrip patch antenna fed by a circular waveguide is presented. The microstrip patch built on a foam substrate is laid on the flange of the circular waveguide's open mouth. The waveguide feeds the patch by coupling energy to the patch through a narrow slot underneath the patch. Two operating frequency bands were observed and the characteristics of the antenna were measured.     

CPW-fed stacked microstrip antennas

This paper presents a systematic parameter study of aperture-coupled stacked patch antennas fed by coplanar waveguide. These antennas are to be used at millimeter-wave frequencies in the 30-GHz range. The influence of the most important design parameters, such as patch dimensions, aperture dimensions, and substrate thicknesses, was studied extensively. It has been found that these antennas can easily be impedance-matched by tuning the dimensions of the excitation slot and adding a small tuning stub. In this way, an antenna element with a -10 dB impedance bandwidth of 36.8% has been designed. Furthermore, the results of this parameter study have allowed to formulate some general guidelines concerning the design of this type of antenna element.     

Small dual-frequency microstrip antennas

The characteristics of a dual-frequency compact antenna, which uses a rectangular microstrip patch with a shorting pin, are studied. Compared with the conventional rectangular patch antenna, this antenna can achieve both a significant reduction of antenna size and a dual-frequency operation with a single feed. A detailed parameter study is performed. The theoretical analysis is based on the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. The FDTD codes are developed and validated by measurement results. One antenna has been designed and fabricated, and the comparisons between the measured results and the calculated results are provided. The effects of several antenna parameters on two resonant frequencies, frequency ratio, and radiation pattern characteristics of the antenna have been analyzed and compared. The results of the return loss are also presented. It is shown that various frequency ratios (2.82-4.23) can be obtained by varying the design parameters of this antenna. Several design curves are also presented     

Frequency scanning microstrip antennas

The principles of using radiating microstrip resonators as elements in a frequency scanning antenna array are described. The resonators are cascade-coupled. This gives a scan of the main lobe due to the phase-shift in the resonator in addition to that created by the transmission line phase-shift. Experimental results inX-band, in good agreement with the theory, show that it is possible to scan the main lobe an angle ofpm30degby a variation of the frequencypm300MHz, and where the 3 dB beamwidth is less than10deg. The directivity was 14.7 dB, while the gain was 8.1 dB. The efficiency might be improved by a trade-off between the efficiency and the scanning angle, or by using a better amplitude distribution.