Effect of substrate thickness on the performance of a printed planar monopole antenna (PMA)

Author

Rayno, Jennifer Taylor ; Sharma, Satish K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., San Diego State Univ., San Diego, CA, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

8-14 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Substrate thickness was found to have a significant effect on the performance of a printed circular planar monopole antenna (PMA). As substrate thickness increased the following effects were observed: decreased impedance bandwidth, increased cross-polarization gain, decreased co-polarization gain, and multi-lobe radiation patterns towards the upper end of the band. Substrate dielectric constant mainly affected only the impedance bandwidth of the PMA in that increasing the substrate dielectric constant slightly decreased the impedance bandwidth.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; microstrip antennas; monopole antennas; planar antennas; polarisation; PMA; cross-polarization gain; impedance bandwidth; multilobe radiation patterns; printed circular planar monopole antenna; printed planar monopole antenna; substrate dielectric constant; substrate thickness effect; Antenna radiation patterns; Bandwidth; Feeds; Gain; Impedance; Substrates;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0461-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2012.6348659

Filename

6348659