Modeling, simulation, design and fabrication of a high-gain cavity resonance antenna having a highly-reflective patch-type FSS superstrate

Author

Foroozesh, Alireza ; Shafai, Lotfollah

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB

fYear

2009

fDate

15-18 Feb. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents a practical design of a high-gain cavity resonance antenna having highly reflective superstrate surface. To this end, the antenna is modeled using the transverse equivalent network (TEN) method, first. Peak directivity of 21.7 dBi at boresight is achieved in this modeling. Next, a full-wave analyzer software package based on moment method (Ansoft Designer v4.0) is employed to analyze the antenna structure. Peak directivity of 21.87 dBi at boresight is obtained using this analysis. Then, the actual antenna is fabricated and tested. Peak gain of 19.8 dBi at boresight is obtained in experimental measurements. The sources of discrepancies between these results are pointed out.

Keywords

cavity resonators; electrical engineering computing; frequency selective surfaces; method of moments; microstrip antennas; reflector antennas; Ansoft designer v 4.0; full-wave analyzer software package; high-gain cavity resonance antenna; highly-reflective patch-type FSS superstrate surface; moment method; peak directivity; transverse equivalent network; Antenna measurements; Design methodology; Fabrication; Frequency selective surfaces; Gain measurement; Moment methods; Reflector antennas; Resonance; Software packages; Testing; cavity resonant antenna; frequency selective surface (FSS); transmission line;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics and the Canadian Radio Science Meeting, 2009. ANTEM/URSI 2009. 13th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Toronto, ON

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2979-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2980-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ANTEMURSI.2009.4805066

Filename

4805066