Conformal Low-profile E-shaped Patch Antenna with Unequal Thickness Substrate

Author

Liu, Xufeng ; Chen, Yibo ; Jiao, Yongchang ; Zhang, Fushun

Author_Institution

Xidian Univ., Xi´´an

fYear

2007

fDate

16-17 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

624

Lastpage

627

Abstract

A conformal low-profile e-shaped patch antenna is presented in this paper. Unequal thickness substrate is used in the patch antenna design to maintain the wide-band characteristic of the conformal e-shaped patch antenna. Conformal patch antennas with unequal thickness substrate are fabricated and measured. The experimental results show that the patch antennas provide stable return loss and radiation patterns with different curvature. The result is useful for the design of conformal antenna arrays.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; broadband antennas; conformal antennas; microstrip antennas; conformal e-shaped patch antenna; patch antenna design; radiation patterns; unequal thickness substrate; wide-band characteristic; Antenna radiation patterns; Antennas and propagation; Bandwidth; Broadband antennas; Feeds; Helium; Microstrip antennas; Microwave antennas; Patch antennas; Probes; conformal antenna; low-profile patch antenna; unequal thickness substrate;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave, Antenna, Propagation and EMC Technologies for Wireless Communications, 2007 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Hangzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1045-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1045-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MAPE.2007.4393698

Filename

4393698