Title :
Broadband suspended patch antennas with ground taper transformer
Author :
Lau, N.U. ; Gregory, C.M. ; Sloan, R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Electron., Univ. of Manchester Inst. of Sci. & Technol., UK
fDate :
8/29/2002 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A novel ground taper has been designed and then fabricated using a laser cutter. The taper is used to match the transition between a suspended microstrip line and a microstrip line. This transition is used in the design of a 25 GHz suspended patch antenna deposited onto a polyimide tape and yields an 18% fractional bandwidth
Keywords :
impedance matching; microstrip antennas; transformers; 25 GHz; broadband antennas; fractional bandwidth; ground taper transformer; impedance matching; laser cutter; microstrip line; polyimide tape; suspended patch antennas;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20020712
