Title :
Tunability of an area-efficient microstrip patch antenna at 60GHz
Author :
Horwath, Benjamin D. ; Al-Attar, Talal
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Santa Clara Univ., Santa Clara, CA, USA
Abstract :
A method for shrinking a tunable microstrip patch antenna footprint is investigated. A reduced-area antenna at 60GHz is designed by taking advantage of the capacitive range of an IMPATT diode, being careful to maintain Q over a 2GHz bandwidth. To determine the capability of this tunable antenna system, the inductive extreme of the impedance tuning range is also evaluated for impact to resonance frequency. Further, results from the transmission line model used for analysis and design are confirmed using Sonnet Software´s professional EM solver.
Keywords :
IMPATT diodes; microstrip antennas; IMPATT diode; Sonnet Software´s professional EM solver; area-efficient microstrip patch antenna tunability; frequency 60 GHz; reduced-area antenna; tunable microstrip patch antenna footprint; Impedance; Microstrip; Microstrip antennas; Patch antennas; Resonant frequency; Tuning; IMPATT diodes; Tunable antennas; impedance matching; microstrip patch antennas;
Conference_Titel :
Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Santa Clara, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1153-4
DOI :
10.1109/RWS.2012.6175369
