Title :
Design of a Stacked Microstrip Patch Antenna Using HFSS
Author :
Reese, Mark S. ; Balanis, Constantine A. ; Birtcher, Craig R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ, USA
Abstract :
The design of a stacked aperture coupled microstrip patch antenna is very challenging when dealing with wide-band impedance matching. Impedance matching is a major challenge because the effect of changing one of the parameters in not independent of the others. When this is the case the role of a computer aided design package is vital. We use HFSS to design a stacked patch antenna to operate between 1.5 and 1.7 GHz. HFSS permits parametric studies that give insight on optimizing the parameters of the antenna and feed geometry.
Keywords :
UHF antennas; antenna feeds; broadband antennas; impedance matching; microstrip antennas; HFSS; antenna feed geometry; frequency 1.5 GHz to 1.7 GHz; stacked microstrip patch antenna design; wide-band impedance matching; Apertures; Bandwidth; Coaxial components; Feeds; Geometry; Impedance matching; L-band; Microstrip antennas; Patch antennas; Probes;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2009. APSURSI '09. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Charleston, SC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3647-7
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2009.5171956
