Radiation and scattering characteristics of microstrip antennas onnormally biased ferrite substrates

Radiation and scattering characteristics of microstrip antennas and arrays printed on ferrite substrates with a normal magnetic bias field are described. The extra degree of freedom offered by the biased ferrite can be used to obtain a number of novel characteristics, including switchable and tunable circularly polarized radiation from a microstrip antenna having a single feed point, dynamic wide-angle impedance matching for phased arrays of microstrip antennas, and a switchable radar cross section reduction technique for microstrip antennas. Results are obtained from full-wave moment method solutions for single microstrip antennas and infinite arrays of microstrip antennas. A cavity model solution for a circular patch antenna on a biased ferrite substrate is also presented, to aid in understanding the operation of these antennas     

Characteristics of aperture coupled microstrip antennas on magnetized ferrite substrates

The method of moments in the spectral domain is applied to the full-wave analysis of aperture coupled microstrip antennas in the case where the substrate of the antennas is a layered medium containing magnetized ferrites. The subsectional basis functions used in the analysis make it possible to handle patch antennas and coupling apertures with right angle corners of arbitrary shape. The numerical results obtained show that antennas on ferrite substrates fed by single microstrip lines can radiate both circular and linear polarization, the polarization state being dependent on the orientation of the ferrites bias magnetic field. For a given polarization state, the matching frequency band of the antennas can be tuned over a wide frequency range by adjusting the magnitude of the bias magnetic field. Also, the polarization state can be continuously tuned from circular to linear within the same frequency band by adjusting both the magnitude and the orientation of the bias magnetic field. Some measurements are presented in order to check the validity of the numerical algorithm developed.     

Comparative study on the mutual coupling between different sized cylindrical dielectric resonators antennas and circular microstrip patch antennas

A systematic comparative study on the mutual coupling (S/sub 21/) between dielectric resonator antennas (DRAs) and microstrip patch antennas is presented. The mutual coupling between two cylindrical probe-fed DRAs is studied for different radius to height (a/L) ratios. It is found that the mutual coupling decreases with the radius to height ratio. Comparison between mutual coupling of probe-fed cylindrical DRAs and circular microstrip patch antennas with different dielectric substrates are also studied. The mutual coupling between DRAs is 2 dB stronger than between microstrip patch antennas when the patch is etched on a dielectric substrate of a dielectric constant close to the permittivity of the DRA. The mutual coupling of the circular patch antennas reduces with the dielectric constant of the substrate.     

一种宽轴比带宽L频段圆极化贴片天线

圆极化全向天线由于其自身的性能特点,在现代无线应用中越来越受到广泛的关注。提出一种宽轴比带宽的L频段圆极化微波贴片天线,该天线有上下两个介质层,下层微带馈线耦合馈电,接地面蚀刻十字交叉缝隙以帮助实现圆极化和改善上层贴片的耦合度。设计结果显示,该天线3dB轴比带宽可以达到3．5％（1.0231．060GHz）,在有效带宽内天线增益高于5．68dBi,在中心频率点（1．04GHz）天线的前后瓣比高于20dB。     

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%。     

A Compact Broadband H-Slot and Horizontal H-Slot Patch Antenna for Circular Polarization

This paper presents the design of compact broadband H-slot and horizontal H-slot microstrip patch antenna with a single feed. The antenna is also used for circular polarization application with a single narrowband frequency. The performance of single feed notched and truncated corner circularly polarized microstrip antennas with the same substrate thickness for H-slot and horizontal H-slot is studied. The simulated results such as return loss S₁₁, axial ratio AR, radiation pattern (E_left and E_right), and gain are presented in this paper for different shapes of patch antenna.     

Rectangular microstrip antenna for circular polarization

Richmond's reaction integral equation method is used to design a rectangular microstrip patch to produce a circular polarization. A rectangular patch with the aspect ratioa = W_{x}/W_{y}, in the range 1.015- 1.02 and corner fed by a microstrip line, produces circular polarization. For substrate with thicknessd = 0.16cm,a = 1.017the nearly square patch gives maximum bandwidth.     

Infinite phased arrays of cavity-backed patches

An analysis of the radiation properties of infinite phased arrays of probe-fed circular microstrip patches backed by circular cavities using a rigorous Green's function/Galerkin's method is presented. The effect of substrate thickness on both scan volume and bandwidth performance is considered. Results are compared to those of infinite arrays of conventional probe-fed circular patch antennas     

偏心圆环微带天线谐振特性的研究

本文分析了偏心圆环微带天线ＴＭ１１模的谐振特性，理论值与实测值一致性较好，所用的方法适用于分析多个扇形环组合组的微带天线。     

腔基微带天线的矢量有限元--边界积分方法分析

该文将矢量有限元——边界积分(Edge-Based FE-BI)混合方法用于腔基微带贴片线的辐射特性分析。分别计算了在无阻抗负载和加有阻抗负载两种情况下的输入阻抗，以此验证了该混合方法的正确性；然后计算了贴片天线表面缝隙部分的场分布，验证微带天线分析模型——传输线模型的合理性；最后计算了E面、H面方向图以及相应的交叉极化方向图。     

Circular microstrip antenna on ferrimagnetic substrate

A theoretical analysis of circular microstrip antenna on a ferrimagnetic substrate predicts significantly reduced resonant radii and improved bandwidth as compared to those of similar antennas built on purely dielectric substrates, when operated in the lower range of UHF. The impedance characteristics, return loss, and radiation pattern studied experimentally for antennas built upon a typical ferrite substrate are found to be in good agreement qualitatively with the theoretical results.     

双圆极化微带天线的设计

研究了小型化双圆极化微带天线的设计方法。重点讨论了实现双圆极化、宽波束宽度微带叠层天线小型化的实现方法,并利用仿真软件进行仿真分析,在此基础上研制了样件,对其电性能进行了测量,测量结果表明:此微带天线具有圆极化、宽波束宽度和小型化的特点。     

微带天线圆极化技术概述与进展

圆极化微带天线在无线应用中扮演着重要角色。本文论述微带天线圆极化技术 ,简要概括微带天线圆极化方法 ,接着重点分极当前出现的多种新型圆极化微带天线及进展 ,最后讨论了发展趋势。圆极化微带天线将不断推陈出新 ,以满足愈加广泛的应用需求。     

宽带圆极化微带天线的几种实现方法

在简要概述圆极化微带天线工作原理的基础上,重点介绍了目前国内外较为先进的圆极化微带天线实现宽带的多种方法,包括微带贴片天线、缝隙天线,以及采用PBG结构的圆极化天线。这些方法分别采用单点馈电,多点馈电或多元组合实现圆极化,均有效拓展了圆极化天线的阻抗匹配带宽和圆极化轴比带宽。参考一些实例验证了这些方法的可行性,然后展望了其可能的发展趋势。     

Calculation of radiation patterns of microstrip antennas oncylindrical bodies of arbitrary cross section

A simplified approach based on reciprocity is presented to calculate the radiation patterns of microstrip patch antennas or arrays on a cylindrical body having an arbitrary cross section. In this approach, the microstrip patch antennas are characterized using the finite-element method, and their radiation patterns are then calculated using a two-dimensional method of moments in conjunction with the reciprocity theorem. The validity of the calculation is demonstrated by comparison with measured data for a microstrip patch antenna on a circular cylinder attached to a plate. Other numerical examples are also presented to show the capability of the method as well as various effects of the host cylinder on radiation patterns     

Theoretical Investigation of the Input Impedance of Gap-Coupled Circular Microstrip Patch Antennas

In this paper, we have explored a simple theoretical input impedance computation technique for the two gap-coupled circular microstrip patch antennas by using circuit theory approach. The frequency characteristics of the input impedance of the two gap-coupled circular microstrip patch antennas with the gap-distance between the feed patch and parasitic patch is analyzed and simulated. The effect of feed location in the feed patch on the input impedance of proposed antenna is also studied. The theoretical results are compared with the simulated results as well as other reported literature. The simulation has been performed by using a method-of-moment based commercially available simulator IE3D.     

偏心环微带天线谐振特性的研究

本文用点匹配法分析了偏心环微带天线的谐振特性,所得公式可将圆形、同心圆环和偏心圆环微带天线作为特例来应用.对偏心圆环谐振波数的理论计算与实验测试的良好一致性表明,这种方法适用于分析任意形状微带天线的谐振特性.偏心圆环较之同心圆环有较宽的带宽.     

On slot-coupled microstrip antennas and their applications to CPoperation-theory and experiment

A simple theory based on the cavity model is developed to analyze microstrip antennas excited by a slot in the ground plane. By using an equivalent magnetic current source at the feed, the electric field under the patch is obtained in terms of a set of cavity modes. In particular, the loci of the slot feed location for achieving the circular polarization and the input impedance are computed and found to be in excellent agreement with the experimentally measured results. Simple but surprisingly accurate formulas for slot-fed circularly polarized microstrip antennas are derived and compared with those for probe-fed counterparts     

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.     

A Circuit-Theoretic Approach to the Design of Quadruple-Mode Broadband Microstrip Patch Antennas

A novel method for the design of broadband patch antennas is described. The approach taken is to broadside couple two dual-mode patch antennas, resulting in a quad resonance antenna. The equivalent circuit of the antenna is similar to that of microwave filters, thus filter design techniques maybe employed to synthesize the antenna to obtain maximum return-loss bandwidth. This is the first time an increase in the bandwidth is achieved on a relatively thin substrate antenna as a result of coupling four resonant modes using two stacked circular microstrip patches. Electromagnetic simulation and measured results demonstrate bandwidth improvement of over four times that of a single-mode design.