Analysis of Millimeter Wave Conformal Antenna Array on Conical Surface

Author

Yu, Yanmin ; Wu, Wen

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Eng. & Optoelectron. Technol., Nanjing Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Nanjing

fYear

2006

fDate

26-29 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Microstrip antenna (MSA) is quite flexible and has been used as conformal antenna mounted on arbitrary surface. Conformal finite-difference time-domain (CFDTD) method has shown excellent versatility. In this paper, CFDTD is applied to analyze microstrip patch antenna mounted on conical surface. Based on the analysis, an omnidirectional 4times4 millimeter wave (MMW) conformal microstrip antenna array which works at 35 GHz is developed. The measured data shows good agreement with simulation.

Keywords

conformal antennas; conical antennas; finite difference time-domain analysis; microstrip antenna arrays; millimetre wave antenna arrays; CFDTD model; arbitrary surface; conformal antenna; conformal finite-difference time-domain method; conical surface; flexible antenna; frequency 35 GHz; microstrip patch antenna; millimeter wave conformal antenna array; Antenna arrays; Antenna measurements; Finite difference methods; Microstrip antenna arrays; Microstrip antennas; Millimeter wave measurements; Millimeter wave technology; Patch antennas; Surface waves; Time domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas, Propagation & EM Theory, 2006. ISAPE '06. 7th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Guilin

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0162-3

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0163-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISAPE.2006.353458

Filename

4168119