Wideband coplanar patch-slot antennas for radar applications

Author

Elsherbeni, Atef Z. ; Eldek, Abdelnasser A. ; Baker, Brad N. ; Smith, Charles E. ; Lee, Kai-Fong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Mississippi Univ., MS, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

436

Abstract

This paper presents a set of coplanar patch antennas (CPA), designed to operate at a center frequency of 10 GHz with very wideband characteristics. The antenna is based on a rectangular patch surrounded by thin slot, and its performance is tuned by using slots, shorts, and by mitering the sharp edges and corners. These antenna parameters which include the patch dimensions, the length of the coplanar waveguide feed section, the thickness of the dielectric substrate, the length of a PEC tuning short in the slot, and the length of the additional vertical tuning slots are investigated for improved performance across the entire X-band. The antenna characteristics (impedance, return loss, voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR), and far field radiation pattern) are computed for three designs yielding bandwidths that ranges from 3 to 4 GHz or 30-40% at -10 dB.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; broadband antennas; coplanar waveguides; microstrip antennas; radar antennas; slot antennas; 10 GHz; 3 to 4 GHz; CPA; PEC tuning short; VSWR; X-band; antenna characteristics; coplanar patch antennas; coplanar waveguide feed section; corners; dielectric substrate; far field radiation pattern; impedance; length; mitering; patch dimensions; radar; rectangular patch; return loss; sharp edges; shorts; thickness; thin slot; vertical tuning slots; voltage standing wave ratio; wideband coplanar patch-slot antennas; Antenna feeds; Broadband antennas; Coplanar waveguides; Dielectric substrates; Frequency; Impedance; Patch antennas; Radar antennas; Radar applications; Slot antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2002. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7330-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2002.1016116

Filename

1016116