Quarterwave microstrip antenna on a ferrimagnetic substrate

Experiment conducted on a microstrip quarterwave antenna structure on a typical ferrite substrate reveals reduction in size, interesting radiation characteristics and a broadband nature over a wide range of frequencies in the lower UHF region.     

Tuning of microstrip antenna on ferrite substrate

The permeability variation of a ferrite substrate with an axial DC magnetic bias field along with the RF excitation of a microstrip antenna leads to multiresonant behavior. A study of tuning the patch antenna on a ferrite substrate to exploit this feature is reported, along with the associated theoretical analysis and experimental findings     

Circular polarization microstrip antenna on a conical surface

A theoretical model to analyze the performance of a circular polarization microstrip antenna printed on a conical surface is presented. The radiation pattern of the antenna is simulated by the radiation from its four radiating edges (two axial and two circumferential). The electromagnetic field is expanded in terms of spherical wave modes and it is shown that the circular polarization is obtained by exciting in the antenna two spherical TE_r orthogonal modes with 90° phase difference. The impedance analysis is based on the cavity model. Experimental data fits well the theoretical predictions of the model     

A conical microstrip antenna with uniform substrate

A novel conical microstrip antenna with uniform substrate is investigated. The far field radiation patterns of wraparound microstrip antennas mounted on such a structure are studied theoretically. Results for a wraparound antenna of half-wavelength in width excited by TM₀₁ are given, which are verified accurate and efficient by the ones of wraparound cylindrical antennas when the cone angle is very small.     

Circular polarisation design of a single-feedequilateral-triangular microstrip antenna

By inserting a narrow slit at the edge of an equilateral-triangular microstrip patch, circular polarisation (CP) radiation can be obtained using a single probe feed. This CP design is easy to implement. Details of the antenna design are described, and experimental results of the axial ratio and radiation pattern are presented and analysed     

Circular polarisation diversity with small size microstrip antenna

The circular polarisation diversity with the square patch microstrip antenna was obtained by the implantation of the quadrature hybrid as a microstrip feed line. The small size antenna is achieved by using the aperture coupled structure. The cavity model has been used to design an aperture coupled microstrip antenna (ACMSA) and determine the length of the open microstrip stub line in order to match microstrip antenna. The MATLAB and Advanced Design Software (ADS) have been used for designing and simulating the ACMSA. There is a good agreement between the simulated and the experimental results.     

Magnetic tuning of a microstrip antenna on a ferrite substrate

The operating frequency of a microstrip antenna on a ferrite substrate can be tuned by varying the DC magnetic bias field applied to the ferrite. The letter reports experimental work where a 40% tuning range has been obtained, with usable patterns and return loss over this band     

Uniaxially anisotropic substrate effects on resonance ofrectangular microstrip patch antenna

The influence of uniaxial anisotropy in the substrate on the resonant frequency of a rectangular microstrip patch is investigated. Computations shown that changes in ϵ_z can drastically shift the resonant frequency; moreover, a small shift is observed when ϵ_x changes. Other result also indicate that the effect of ϵ_x tends to be insignificant for low substrate thicknesses     

Miniature microstrip antenna with a partially filled high-permittivity substrate

A new technique to reduce the overall dimension of a microstrip antenna using a partially filled high-permittivity substrate is proposed. The miniaturized microstrip antenna for a repeater system in a mobile communication cellular band (824-894 MHz) is designed with the proposed technique and manufactured with light weight and small size. Comparison between simulations, based on HP HFSS software, and measurements are provided.     

INPUT IMPEDANCE OF MICROSTRIP ANTENNA WITH THICK MULTILAYER SUBSTRATE

A method has been devised to analyze multilayer electrically thick circular mi-crostrip antenna excited by a probe.The current on the probe is taken to be uniform.Thismethod was verified by analysis and experiment of an electrically thick circular microstrip an-tenna with an air gap.Based on the free space electric dyadic Green's function,the field expressionof an horizontal electric dipole(HED),which is located at any point of the multilayer media andpoints in any direction,has been derived.By using this field expression and the Richmond re-action equation,an integral equation in terms of electric current on the patch is formulated.Byproperly choosing current expansion modes,this method can be used for an electrically thick mi-crostrip antenna.The theoretical results agree very well with experimental data for an electricallythick circular microstrip antenna with an air gap.     

Characteristics of a circular patch microstrip antenna on uniaxially anisotropic substrate

Resonant characteristics of a circular patch microstrip antenna on the uniaxially anisotropic substrate are determined via spectral domain analysis. Green's functions of the structure in Hankel transform domain are determined by using Hertz vector formulation. The variations in the resonant characteristics depending on the replacement of the isotropic substrate with the uniaxially anisotropic one are analyzed for different permittivity tensor element cases. The results of the study indicate that resonant frequency and bandwidth characteristics of the antenna can be considerably changed due to proper selection of substrate anisotropy ratio and other structural parameters. Depending on the arrived results, operational performance of the antenna will be improved in future studies.     

Effect of substrate thickness on the performance of a circular-disk microstrip antenna

The effect of substrate thickness on the characteristics of a circular-disk microstrip antenna is examined. In the literature this effect has been dealt with theoretically, but experimental results explicitly showing the effect of substrate thickness on resonant frequency, input impedance, and bandwidth do not seem to be readily available.     

基于复合超介质基板的微带天线设计与分析

利用方形开口谐振环、微带线和缺陷地结构建构了一种结构较为简单、便于调节的腔体型结构超介质.仿真结果表明,设计的超介质在1.0～3.6GHz、3.8～7.1GHz和7.2～8.0GHz三个频段内均具有等效介电常数和等效磁导率小于零的左手材料特性.将超介质单元周期性地镶嵌在一种普通多频微带天线的介质基板内,实现了基于复合超介质基板天线.测试结果表明,在工作频率为1.61,3.44和3.9GHz的微带天线中加载这种超介质结构覆层后,其谐振频率分别降低了60,70和40MHz,同时将4.53～4.80GHz和4.97～6.00GHz两个工作频段扩展为4.6～6.0GHz的超宽带.所设计的天线整体性能良好,且满足了WLAN在5GHz通信频段的要求.     

基于人工电磁材料的微带贴片天线频带展宽

提出一种以人工电磁材料作为介质基板的矩形微带贴片天线。通过改变人工电磁材料各单元的几何尺寸来控制介质基板的参数变化,以构成非均匀介质基板,使得贴片辐射边的辐射性能提高,从而有效提高了带宽。对设计的非均匀介质微带天线使用HFSS软件仿真。结果表明,普通均匀介质微带天线电压驻波比VSWR≤2时带宽只有0.5GHz,相对带宽为6.7%,而以人工电磁材料为非均匀介质基板的微带天线VSWR≤2时带宽达到1.6GHz,相对带宽达到20.0%。     

An aperture coupled microstrip antenna with a proximity feed on a perpendicular substrate

A new feeding configuration for microstrip antennas is described, where separate substrates are used for the radiating patch element and the microstrip feedline. The substrates are joined perpendicular to each other, and the patch is excited through an aperture in the antenna substrate ground plane by proximity coupling to the microstrip feedline, This design thus has a number of advantages over other feeding configurations, particularly when used in an integrated phased array application. These features, as well as the measured results from two experimental models, are described.     

Input impedance of a probe-fed circular microstrip antenna with thick substrate

A method of computing the input impedance for the probe fed circular microstrip antenna with thick dielectric substrate is presented. Utilizing the framework of the cavity model, the fields under the microstrip patch are expanded in a set of modes satisfying the boundary conditions on the eccentrically located probe, as well as on the cavity magnetic wall. A mode-matching technique is used to solve for the electric field at the junction between the cavity and the coaxial feed cable. The reflection coefficient of the transverse electromagnetic (TEM) mode incident in the coaxial cable is determined, from which the input impedance of the antenna is computed. Measured data are presented to verify the theoretical calculations. Results of the computation of various losses for the circular printed antenna as a function of substrate thickness are also included.     

Effect of substrate on the efficiency of an arbitrarily shaped microstrip patch antenna

A general approach is presented for the determination of power radiated via the space wave and surface wave from the aperture of an arbitrarily shaped microstrip antenna. The magnetic current model is used for this, and the analysis is carried out in the Fourier domain to determine the effect of the substrate. It has been shown that, in the Fourier domain, the longitudinal components of electric and magnetic displacement vectors follow the transmission line equation and can be solved by inspection. An expression for total radiated power has been derived. The singularities of the integral for power radiation indicate the presence of surface wave modes, and the associated power has been obtained using a singularity extraction technique. The effect of the substrate on space wave power has also been determined. This theory has been applied to a rectangular patch antenna. The results are in conformity with those reported in the literature. It has been found that for the frequency range (h/lambda, < 0.02), the effect of dielectric substrate can be neglected.     

A 60-GHz multilayer parasitic microstrip array antenna on LTCC substrate for system-on-package

This letter describes a compact and high-gain multilayer parasitic microstrip array antenna (MPMAA). The design and performance of the proposed array antenna are presented. The antenna employs three layers with a 2/spl times/2 parasitic array on each layer. The developed prototype MPMAA employs a multilayer low-temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) substrate that is well suited to the assembly of MMIC chips. The fabricated MPMAA achieves a 7.17 dBi absolute gain at 60 GHz including the loss derived from the feeding parts and RF probe to measure its antenna performance. The spacing of the top layer of the parasitic array constructed by 2/spl times/2 elements has a free-space wavelength of 0.36 and the chip size is 10 mm/sup 2/. The fabricated MPMAA achieves both compact and high directional gain and satisfies the requirements for a millimeter-wave system-on-package (SOP).     

Self-adjusting microstrip antenna

A microstrip circuit operating in the G band is presented. It allows all emitting printed antenna to self-tune its resonance frequency when it is disturbed, in order to stay resonant and matched at the desired transmit frequency. The principle, design and experimental results of the circuit are presented     

The temperture dependence of substrate parameters and their effecton microstrip antenna performance

In the common approach to the design of microstrip antennas, the designers rely on data provided in the manufacturers' specifications, even though such specifications are confined to standard environmental conditions. In practice, the electrical parameters of the substrates may deviate from the manufacturers' data, thus making the antenna designer adopt a deficient design strategy. In the study reported, microstrip substrates were exposed to large temperature variations and their temperature dependent properties were measured in a specialized laboratory for dielectric materials. The results include plots of the dielectric constant and dissipation factor for wide temperature ranges equivalent to those in airborne applications. On the basis of this experimental data, the substrates were divided into four categories according to their dielectric constant value and its temperature dependence. Using both manufacturers' data and the measured values, a series of microstrip dual-feed aperture-coupled patch antennas were designed for the four categories of substrates and the sensitivity of their electrical performance due to temperature variations was fully investigated