A new coplanar waveguide continuous transverse stub (CPW-CTS) antenna for wireless communications

Author

Kim, Wayne ; Iskander, Magdy F.

Author_Institution

Hawaii Center for Adv. Commun., Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2005

fDate

6/27/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

172

Lastpage

174

Abstract

To address the continuing demand for low-cost, light-weight and high-performance antennas, and multiband antenna arrays for wireless communications, we developed a new design of the continuous transverse stub (CTS) antenna technology. The design is based on a coplanar waveguide (CPW) feed which combines the advantages of the planar designs originally developed by Hughes Aircraft and the newer 50 Ω coaxial version recently developed by our group . To examine the feasibility of the approach, a one-element CPW-CTS antenna is designed and a prototype is built in the frequency range of 5.2-5.6 GHz. S-Parameters and radiation pattern results shows good agreement between the simulation results and the experimental data.

Keywords

S-parameters; antenna feeds; antenna radiation patterns; coplanar waveguide components; microstrip antenna arrays; 5.2 to 5.6 GHz; CPW-CTS antenna; S-parameters; coplanar waveguide continuous transverse stub; coplanar waveguide feed; multiband antenna arrays; radiation pattern; wireless communications; Aircraft; Antenna arrays; Coaxial components; Coplanar waveguides; Feeds; Frequency; Optical arrays; Planar waveguides; Prototypes; Wireless communication; Continuous transverse stub (CTS) antenna; coplanar waveguide; low cost; multiband array; wireless communications;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1225

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LAWP.2005.848660

Filename

1430659