探针馈电印刷线天线的矩量法分析——（Ⅰ）单臂天线

利用同轴内导体延和为探针对印刷天线进行直接馈电是一种易于实现的馈电方式。本文介绍了一种分析单臂探针馈电印刷线天线的数值方法,该方法是基于并矢格林函数和互易定量求解电流积分方程的矩量法,适合于分析任意形状印刷线天线,首先给出描述电流分布的积分方程及其矩量法求解公式,在解得电流分布基础上,应用驻相法计算远区辐射场,通过计算与实验比较,验证了分析方法和计算程序的正确性,最后对一圆极化开口印刷圆环天线进行分析计算,表明了方法的实用价值。     

Compact 3D-MEMS-meander monopole antenna

A MEMS meander monopole antenna is fabricated in the form of a folded microstrip on the upper and bottom surfaces of the substrate. This design is based on the meander line principle with a three-dimensional structure to achieve reduced size compared to many other small size printed antennas. The MEMS technologies, such as excimer laser drilling and copper electroplating were used in the fabrication of this antenna. This antenna can be mounted on the silicon wafer by anodic bonding technology. The design features 2.45 GHz operating frequency with 190 MHz bandwidth for WLAN applications. The geometric length of the antenna is 21 mm, and the width is 4 mm. Measured results have good agreement with simulation data.     

A notch-wire composite antenna for polarization diversity reception

This paper presents a notch-wire composite antenna for polarization diversity reception in an indoor base-station system. A three-notched disk antenna and a wire antenna are proposed as component antennas for the horizontal and the vertical polarization, respectively. These component antennas are unified as a single composite diversity antenna by mounting the wire antenna on the notched disk. Antenna characteristics are calculated using the method of moments (MoM), with wire grid models and examined in terms of component arrangement, and terminal isolation. It is found that maximum isolation is obtained when the current path of the wire antenna is where the current exciting the H-pol element is cancelled. Consequently, both component antennas may work independently even in the composite form. The quasi-monopole pattern is also confirmed for each polarization     

Planar Miniature RFID Antennas Suitable for Integration With Batteries

A class of planar, electrically-small UHF antennas suitable for direct integration with electronic components such as batteries is introduced. The new design approach combines a meander line section and a capacitive strip section. The geometries of the two sections can together be scaled in size over a wide range of planar form factors while still maintaining self-resonance and practically realizable line widths and spacings. No external matching network is required. Moreover, batteries can be mounted above or below the capacitive strip section, significantly reducing the total size of a wireless device. Three designs are demonstrated on printed circuit board at 433 MHz. Measurements show that the antennas provide good gain and excellent bandwidth, omnidirectional radiation patterns, and electrically small size. The results of this work have numerous uses in radiofrequency identification (RFID)     

Aperture-coupled thin-film superconducting meander antennas

A thin-film superconducting meander patch antenna coupled by an H-shaped aperture is proposed. It is analyzed using a full wave electromagnetic simulator and the theory of cavity model for microstrip patch antennas. The meander patch was fabricated from a single-sided film of YBCO (YBa₂CU₃O₇) on MgO with a typical transition temperature of 90 K. Simulated results are presented for return loss, radiation pattern, and efficiency and these are shown in good agreement with the results obtained from network analyzer measurements. An array of a number of elements is also proposed for wide-band operation     

Broadband quasi-microstrip antenna

A new printed microwave antenna is presented. The antenna is a hybrid between a wire antenna array and a microstrip patch antenna. Although the size, cost, and efficiency are comparable to the microstrip patch, the voltage standing wave ratio 2:1 bandwidth of the antenna presented here is above 20%. The radiation pattern of the antenna does not change appreciably within the bandwidth, and the theoretical efficiency for optimal antennas remains above approximately 80% within the bandwidth. Measurements on several antennas around 2 and 4 GHz are presented, as well as theoretical results obtained using a full-wave analysis     

Miniaturisation of rectangular loop antenna using meander line for RFID tags

A small rectangular loop antenna (RLA) for RFID tags has been designed and fabricated for the UHF band. As the structure of a meander line and a folded meander line is applied in a general RLA, the RLA is miniaturised. The size reduction rate of meander line RLA and folded meander line RLA are 85.4 and 92.2% compared with a general RLA, respectively. The radiation patterns are omnidirectional in the z-y plane (horizontal pol.). Also the gain of the meander line RLA and folded meander line RLA are -2.47 and -4.01 dBd, respectively     

Numerical analysis of arbitrarily shaped probe-excited single-armprinted wire antennas

A general integral equation technique is described for analysis of an arbitrarily shaped single-arm printed wire antenna excited through a vertical probe. A unified current integral equation is formulated on the basis of dyadic Green's functions and the reciprocity theorem. The current distribution is obtained by using a parametric moment method in which parameter segments are adopted for the printed wire instead of the commonly employed wire length segments. The radiation field solution involving both the printed antenna and vertical probe is also presented. The validity of the formulation is verified by comparing the numerically obtained input impedance and radiation patterns for a linear antenna and a meander antenna with measured data. A circular open loop and an Archimedian spiral are investigated to illustrate the applicability of the present technique     

带金属盒的月球射电仪天线特性研究

选择RWG和Costa基函数用矩量法分析了线面结合的天线问题,计算了月球射电仪典型天线的输入阻抗和方向图.给出了单极和双极天线的典型结果,得到了金属盒大小对结果的影响关系.对于双极天线还对比了中馈和边馈两种方式的结果.在计算中,使用了9点高斯积分法处理奇异积分,得到了较好的效果.     

无线通信系统中的MEMS天线

本文分析了常见的MEMS天线及其应用,包括多对称锥形弯曲缝隙微带天线、用于WLAN中的微尺度宽频天线、开关式微机械毫米波天线、微机械自适应贴片天线等,对这些天线的结构原理、制造方法及其性能做了分析。这些天线设计简单、可用CMOS工艺制造、利于集成,兼有宽频、高辐射效率、小尺度等优点。但相对普通天线而言,这些制造工艺明显复杂、尺度更微小,增加了实现难度,要实现MEMS天线批量应用,还需要在基础理论及其微细工艺进行研究。最后,对MEMS天线在无线通信系统中的应用作出展望。     

曲折臂形式的阿基米德螺旋天线小型化研究

把阿基米德螺旋天线的天线臂设计成曲折线的形式,以延长天线臂的电长度,从而达到小型化的目的.对几种不同折线方式的天线进行了仿真,选取一种最佳形式,对其进行了优化,并给出了一种宽频带双面微带线巴伦的设计方法.仿真与实验结果表明:在0.8～4.0GHz频段,与经典阿基米德螺旋天线的结果相比,天线的口面面积减小27%时,仍具有良好的阻抗特性、轴比特性和增益特性.     

Development of Multi-Broadband Planar Wire Antennas for Wireless Applications

A new type of multi-broadband antennas is developed for wireless applications. The broadband performance of this type of antennas is achieved by introducing a small gap on a wire loop while the multi-band operation is realized by simultaneously exciting one or more additional wire elements. Three antenna configurations are investigated for single-, dual-, and triple-broadband operations. The dual-broadband operation is obtained by employing a combination of a loop and a monopole. The triple-broadband antenna consists of a loop, a monopole, and an inverted-L structure. It is demonstrated that the multi-broadband antennas can achieve a bandwidth of 30% in the 1GHz band, 50% in the 2 GHz band, and 40% in the 5 GHz band, which cover the frequency bands for AMPS/PCS, GSM/DCS, PDC/PHS, and IMT-2000 mobile communications as well as for 2.4-GHz and 5-GHz wireless applications.     

梯形弯折线单极子天线的谐振特性

基于矩量法数值方法,研究了由梯形弯折线构成的单极子天线的谐振特性。着重于分析在天线高度和宽度都有明确尺寸要求条件下,天线输入参数与梯形弯折线弯折次数的关系以及与弯折角的关系。结果表明,弯折角的改变对天线谐振特性具有很强的调节作用,恰当地选择弯折角可以有效地改变天线的谐振频率与带宽,提高天线的辐射能力和匹配性能。     

Enhanced bandwidth uniplanar compact electromagnetic bandgap structure with coplanar meander line inductance

A novel compact electromagnetic bandgap structure is presented. The coplanar meander line inductance is adopted to increase the surface equivalent inductance in order to improve the bandwidth of the bandgap and reduce unit cell size. The measured results show that 54.1% relative bandwidth and 25.2% reduction in resonant frequency could be obtained.     

Meandering long slot leaky-wave waveguide-antennas

A theoretical study is made of the aperture field distributions, the far-field amplitude patterns, and the mutual coupling characteristics of several long leaky-wave slot antennas cut on the broadwall of a rectangular waveguide mounted in an infinite ground plane. Straight long slots have high inner sidelobes in the far-field amplitude patterns, which reduces their utility as high-performance antennas. To reduce these sidelobes, a long slot may be meandered from waveguide centerline to sidewall and back to centerline in such a way to produce the desired radiation patterns. Calculated results for antennas of several meander patterns are presented and discussed     

探针馈电印刷线天线的矩量法分析——（Ⅱ）多臂天线

通过应用模式分解法,本文将单臂探针馈电印刷线天线的分析方法推广到具有旋转对称性的任意多臂探针馈电印刷线天线的分析计算。首先给出探针馈电N臂印刷线天线的电流积分方程、矩量方程及远区辐射场计算公式;通过一个中心馈电螺旋天线的分析计算验证方法和计算程序的正确性;设计出具有良好圆极化特性的开口双圆环印刷线天线;最后分析了一探针馈电四臂印刷螺旋天线的辐射特性。     

Design of electrically small wire antennas using a pareto genetic algorithm

We report on the use of a genetic algorithm (GA) in the design optimization of electrically small wire antennas, taking into account of bandwidth, efficiency and antenna size. For the antenna configuration, we employ a multisegment wire structure. The Numerical Electromagnetics Code (NEC) is used to predict the performance of each wire structure. To efficiently map out this multiobjective problem, we implement a Pareto GA with the concept of divided range optimization. In our GA implementation, each wire shape is encoded into a binary chromosome. A two-point crossover scheme involving three chromosomes and a geometrical filter are implemented to achieve efficient optimization. An optimal set of designs, trading off bandwidth, efficiency, and antenna size, is generated. Several GA designs are built, measured and compared to the simulation. Physical interpretations of the GA-optimized structures are provided and the results are compared against the well-known fundamental limit for small antennas. Further improvements using other geometrical design freedoms are discussed.     

Double rectangular meander line loop monopole antenna for miniaturisation and bandwidth

The aim of this reported work was to achieve miniaturisation of an antenna for a wireless mic system covering the 216-224 MHz band. A double rectangular loop structure using a meander line was applied for size reduction and the broad bandwidth of the antenna. As a result of the installation of the mic, a length reduction ratio of 91.3% at 221 MHz and -10 dB bandwidth of 9.85 MHz (4.45%) were obtained.     

Modification and Control of Currents on Electrically Large Wire Structures Using Composite Dielectric Bead Elements

Increasing the number of antennas for wireless communications, while concealing them within their environment, is an area of great importance as demand for wireless devices increases. One method to achieve this goal is to use the existing conducting objects in an environment as antennas. This requires altering the natural current distribution on conducting objects such that optimal radiation properties can be obtained. In this paper, a composite dielectric bead element is introduced for this purpose on electrically large wire structures. The operation of the bead element is described using transmission line theory, and a wire model of the element is given. Using the wire model, the loading for several electrically large wire structures is designed such that they resonate and radiate similarly to a half-wavelength dipole     

A fast MoM calculation technique using sinusoidal basis and testing functions for a wire on a dielectric substrate and its application to meander loop and grid array antennas

The input impedance matrix element of the method of moments (MoM) for an arbitrarily shaped wire antenna printed on a dielectric material Z/sub m,n/ is formulated to be composed of three terms Z/sup /spl psi/s//sub m,n/, Z/sup /spl psi///sub m,n/, and /spl Delta/Z/sub m,n/ involving single-, double-, and triple-integral calculations, respectively. The MoM based on the Z/sub m,n/ formulated in this paper (new MoM) is applied to two antennas-a meander loop antenna and a grid array antenna-as well as a simple loop used as a reference antenna. The computation time to obtain the current distribution of each antenna by the new MoM technique is compared with the time required for the conventional MoM, which has an impedance matrix element composed of four terms, all involving triple-integral calculations. It is revealed that the new MoM drastically reduces the computation time: for example, by a factor of 937 for the grid array antenna. In addition, the radiation characteristics of these two antennas are discussed. It is found that a reduced-size meander loop (62% smaller than the simple loop reference) has a radiation pattern similar to the simple loop reference. It is also found that the grid array has an axial beam radiation pattern without side lobes in the principal planes.