AFSS superstrate integrated microstrip antennas- a progressive study

Author

Thakur, Siddharth ; Yadava, R.L. ; Das, S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Galgotia´s Coll. of Eng. & Technol., Noida, India

fYear

2013

fDate

22-23 Feb. 2013

Firstpage

1645

Lastpage

1650

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the recent developments for Adaptive Frequency Selective Surfaces (AFSS) integrated patch antennas. The limitations of the FSS based microstrip antennas mainly, narrow impedance and gain bandwidth have been overcome by using adaptive FSS (AFSS). This is because the integration of the lumped-element devices in the FSS has several advantages like radiation bandwidth enlargement, controlling the resonance frequency, high directivity etc. The study includes various FSS structures loaded with different electronic components/devices such as capacitors, inductors, varactors as well as PIN diodes etc. The simulation results shown reveal the effect of these devices on the transmission and reflection characteristics as well as overall performances of the antennas. The frequency tuning over 500-700 MHz around 2.5 GHz has been reported along with a total antenna area reduction by 55%.

Keywords

UHF antennas; capacitors; frequency selective surfaces; inductors; microstrip antennas; varactors; AFSS superstrate integrated microstrip antennas; FSS based microstrip antennas; FSS structures; adaptive FSS; adaptive frequency selective surfaces; capacitors; electronic components; electronic devices; frequency 500 MHz to 700 MHz; frequency tuning; inductors; integrated patch antennas; lumped-element devices; progressive study; radiation bandwidth enlargement; reflection characteristics; transmission characteristics; varactors; Bandwidth; Directive antennas; Frequency selective surfaces; Metamaterials; Microstrip antennas; Periodic structures; adaptive frequency selective surfaces; frequency selective surfaces; microstrip patch antennas; superstrates;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advance Computing Conference (IACC), 2013 IEEE 3rd International

Conference_Location

Ghaziabad

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4527-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IAdCC.2013.6514475

Filename

6514475