Investigations on an aperture-coupled microstrip patch antenna with a spaced dielectric cover for enhanced gain performance

Author

Meagher, Christopher J. ; Sharma, Satish K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., San Diego State Univ., San Diego, CA

fYear

2009

fDate

15-18 Feb. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A novel method for increasing the gain of an aperture-coupled microstrip patch antenna is presented. The method makes use of a dielectric cover that is spaced some height off of the antenna. By proper choice of this height, we demonstrate an increase in simulated gain of more than 7dB. This comes at no cost to the matching bandwidth, but affects the gain bandwidth and radiation beamwidth.

Keywords

aperture-coupled antennas; microstrip antennas; aperture-coupled microstrip patch antenna; gain bandwidth; matching bandwidth; periodic structures; radiation beamwidth; spaced dielectric cover; Aperture antennas; Bandwidth; Copper; Dielectric substrates; Feeds; Geometry; Microstrip antenna arrays; Microstrip antennas; Patch antennas; Performance gain; aperture antennas; microstrip antennas; periodic structures; radomes;

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.2009.4805088

Filename

4805088