Title : 
Small EBG resonator high-gain antenna using in-phase highly-reflecting surface
         
        
            Author : 
Li, Yuhua ; Esselle, Karu P.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Macquarie Univ., Sydney, NSW, Australia
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
A small EBG resonator antenna (1.62lambda0times1.62times0timeslambda0/4 in size) with specially-located PEC sidewalls to close the resonant cavity is proposed to achieve maximum directivity. An in-phase highly-reflecting surface is installed a quarter-wavelength above the PEC ground plane. For this small EBG resonator antenna, 13.5 dBi measured directivity and 11 dBi peak gain are obtained at 11.6 GHz.
         
        
            Keywords : 
cavity resonators; microwave antennas; photonic band gap; EBG resonator antenna; PEC ground plane; frequency 11.6 GHz; inphase highly-reflecting surface; resonant cavity;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Electronics Letters
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1049/el.2009.0959