• DocumentCode
    2938814
  • Title

    Compact microstrip antennas on a high relative dielectric constant substrate at 60 GHz

  • Author

    Trippe, Ann ; Bhattacharya, Swapan ; Papapolymerou, John

  • Author_Institution
    Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    3-8 July 2011
  • Firstpage
    519
  • Lastpage
    520
  • Abstract
    A high relative dielectric constant substrate has been combined with a slot-loading technique to reduce antenna size. Further, the slot-loading technique has been used in an array configuration to increase the bandwidth by exciting each element at a different resonant frequency. This method results in almost a 30% decrease in size and 1.5% increase in bandwidth. Two 2×1 antenna arrays are demonstrated with a total area less than 2.5mm2.
  • Keywords
    microstrip antenna arrays; millimetre wave antenna arrays; permittivity; slot antenna arrays; compact microstrip antenna array; frequency 60 GHz; high relative dielectric constant substrate; resonant frequency; slot-loading technique; Arrays; Bandwidth; Dielectric constant; Microstrip antennas; Resonant frequency; Slot antennas; high relative dielectric constant substrate; mm-wave antennas; slot-loading;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI), 2011 IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Spokane, WA
  • ISSN
    1522-3965
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-9562-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APS.2011.5996759
  • Filename
    5996759