Active integrated antenna using photonic bandgap and defected ground structure

Author

Dahmardeh, Masoud ; Ghorbani, Ayaz ; Abdipour, Abdolali

Author_Institution

Dep. of Elec. Eng., AmirKabir Univ. of Technol., Tehran

fYear

2009

fDate

23-27 March 2009

Firstpage

3823

Lastpage

3826

Abstract

This paper presents an active integrated antenna (AIA) enhanced using photonic bandgap (PBG) and defected ground (DGS) structure. The integrated design of a low noise amplifier (LNA) stage and an enhanced patch antenna is presented. The antenna consists of a microstrip patch integrated with one-dimensional DGS in ground plane and two-dimensional PBG. It is demonstrated that application of DGS and PBG eliminates the second and third harmonics and improve the return loss level. Moreover, the combination use of PBG and DGS decreases the occupied area by 61%. Also, by adopting DGS pattern on the ground plane, the length of the output matching network of the LNA shortened by about 39%, while maintaining the matching and performances of the amplifier. This, also, eliminates the third harmonic. This letter is the first report on the application of both DGS and PBG in AIAs as we know.

Keywords

active antennas; low noise amplifiers; microstrip antennas; photonic band gap; active integrated antenna; integrated low noise amplifier design; microstrip patch antenna; one-dimensional defected ground structure; two-dimensional photonic bandgap; Capacitors; Frequency; Impedance matching; Low-noise amplifiers; Microstrip antennas; Noise shaping; Patch antennas; Pattern matching; Photonic band gap; Power harmonic filters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation, 2009. EuCAP 2009. 3rd European Conference on

Conference_Location

Berlin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4753-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-3-00-024573-2

Type

conf

Filename

5068422