DocumentCode
1332145
Title
Aperture-coupled small microstrip antenna
Author
Park, I. ; Mittra, R.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Ajou Univ., Suwon, South Korea
Volume
32
Issue
19
fYear
1996
fDate
9/12/1996 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
1741
Lastpage
1742
Abstract
An aperture-coupled small microstrip antenna is described. The antenna is formed by short-circuiting a microstrip radiating element with a shorting pin to the ground plane and exciting the element with a microstrip feedline through an electrically small aperture. Two principal advantages of this design are that the size of the antenna is significantly reduced and that it is relatively easy to fabricate the antenna. Experimental data for the return loss and the radiation pattern of the antenna are presented to validate the design
Keywords
antenna feeds; antenna radiation patterns; losses; microstrip antennas; antenna size; aperture-coupled microstrip antenna; electrically small aperture; element short-circuiting; microstrip feedline; microstrip radiating element; radiation pattern; return loss; shorting pin;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:19961188
Filename
533464
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