• DocumentCode
    326387
  • Title

    Directivity of microstrip ring antennas and effects of finite ground plane on the radiation parameters

  • Author

    Moosavi, P. ; Shafai, L.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Manitoba Univ., Winnipeg, Man., Canada
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    21-26 June 1998
  • Firstpage
    672
  • Abstract
    A study was carried out using Zeland Software to determine the effects of removing the central conducting portion of microstrip square patch antennas on their directivity with infinite ground plane. Inspite of a reduction in the antenna size, the directivity remains constant and also does not change by modifying the substrate thickness. The influence of a finite ground plane size g, on the radiation parameters was also studied. It was found that at g=1.1/spl lambda//sub 0/ the best directivity can be obtained.
  • Keywords
    antenna radiation patterns; directive antennas; microstrip antennas; Zeland Software; antenna directivity; antenna size reduction; central conducting portion; finite ground plane size; infinite ground plane; microstrip ring antennas; microstrip square patch antennas; radiation parameters; substrate thickness; Microstrip antennas; Patch antennas;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 1998. IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Atlanta, GA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-4478-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APS.1998.702027
  • Filename
    702027