Title :
Small antenna over AMC surface with/out vias
Author :
Shaozhen Zhu ; Ford, Kenneth L. ; Tennant, Alan ; Langley, Richard J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Abstract :
An electrically small split ring antenna is integrated with two miniaturised artificial magnetic conductors to form conformal platform tolerant antennas. Both the antenna and the AMCs utilise loading by discrete, lumped circuit elements. The two AMCs have identical designs but one of them has vias connecting from the ground plane to the surface patches. The performance of the antenna over AMCs with and without vias will be studied and the results will be discussed.
Keywords :
UHF antennas; conductors (electric); microstrip antennas; AMC surface; conformal platform tolerant antennas; electrically small split ring antenna; ground plane; lumped circuit elements; miniaturised artificial magnetic conductors; surface patches; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Bandwidth; Resonant frequency; Surface impedance; Electrically small antenna (ESA); artificial magnetic conductor (AMC); split ring resonator (SRR);
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), 2012 6th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Prague
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0918-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0919-7
DOI :
10.1109/EuCAP.2012.6206113
