Laguerre-FDTD (LFDTD) analysis of the sinus microstrip fed-patch antenna for broadband matching

Author

Ngendakumana, Gaspard ; El Ouazzani, Nabih

Author_Institution

Lab. of Signals Syst. & Components - Emc Team, Univ. of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Fez, Morocco

fYear

2014

fDate

14-16 April 2014

Firstpage

1279

Lastpage

1284

Abstract

Laguerre polynomials to circumvent the Courant-Friedrich-Lewy (CFL) stability condition in the conventional Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method are dealt with in this paper. The programming codes based on Laguerre-FDTD (LFDTD) method, FDTD method and Perfectly Matched Layers (PMLs) Absorbing Boundary Conditions (ABCs) are applied to analyze microstrip fed-rectangular patch antennas. The patch antenna of interest is fed by uniform and non uniform microstrip lines, respectively. In this paper, sinus tapered microstrip line configurations are adopted in order to achieve broadband impedance matching on a frequency band ranging form 6 GHz to 19 GHz. The total and incident waves, the return loss S₁₁(f) and the input impedance Z_in(f) of the microstrip line fed-rectangular patch antenna, obtained from the LFDTD formulation, are compared to those of the conventional FDTD method.

Keywords

antenna feeds; finite difference time-domain analysis; microstrip antennas; microstrip lines; microwave antennas; polynomials; Courant-Friedrich-Lewy stability; Laguerre polynomials; Laguerre-FDTD analysis; absorbing boundary conditions; broadband matching; finite difference time-domain method; frequency 6 GHz to 19 GHz; nonuniform microstrip line; perfectly matched layer; rectangular patch antenna; sinus microstrip fed patch antenna; Antennas; Bellows; Equations; Finite difference methods; Indexes; Laboratories; Time-domain analysis; LFDTD method; Laguerre polynomials; broadband matching; patch antenna; uniform and sinus tapered microstrip lines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Computing and Systems (ICMCS), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Marrakech

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3823-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMCS.2014.6911398

Filename

6911398