Analysis of impedance characteristics of a novel wide-slot printed antenna using the FDTD method

Author

Lu Wanzheng ; Yuesheng, Zeng ; Yan, Jiang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Radio Commun., Air Force Telecommun. Inst., Xi´´an, China

fYear

1999

fDate

6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

222

Lastpage

225

Abstract

This paper deals with the analysis of impedance frequency-dependent characteristics of wide-slot printed antennas. The effect of various feeds on the impedance of printed slots and the improvement to match feed line and printed slots are studied using the finite-difference time-domain method. A novel C-band wide-slot printed antenna with a ridge has been designed based on the analysis. The 10 dB return loss bandwidth of the antenna is approximate 25%. Very good agreement between experiment and theory was achieved.

Keywords

antenna feeds; electric impedance; finite difference time-domain analysis; microstrip antennas; slot antennas; C-band; FDTD method; finite-difference time-domain method; impedance characteristics; printed slots; return loss bandwidth; wide-slot printed antenna; Antenna feeds; Antenna theory; Bandwidth; Broadband antennas; Finite difference methods; Frequency; Impedance; Slot antennas; Space vector pulse width modulation; Time domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Electromagnetics and Its Applications, 1999. Proceedings. (ICCEA '99) 1999 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5802-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCEA.1999.825110

Filename

825110