简介:Amethodhasbeendevisedtoanalyzemultilayerelectricallythickcircularmi-crostripantennaexcitedbyaprobe.Thecurrentontheprobeistakentobeuniform.Thismethodwasverifiedbyanalysisandexperimentofanelectricallythickcircularmicrostripan-tennawithanairgap.BasedonthefreespaceelectricdyadicGreen’sfunction,thefieldexpressionofanhorizontalelectricdipole(HED),whichislocatedatanypointofthemultilayermediaandpointsinanydirection,hasbeenderived.ByusingthisfieldexpressionandtheRichmondre-actionequation,anintegralequationintermsofelectriccurrentonthepatchisformulated.Byproperlychoosingcurrentexpansionmodes,thismethodcanbeusedforanelectricallythickmi-crostripantenna.Thetheoreticalresultsagreeverywellwithexperimentaldataforanelectricallythickcircularmicrostripantennawithanairgap.
简介:Consideringtheshortcomingsoftheexistingvehicle-to-vehicle(V2V)communicationantennas,thispaperproposesaregularhexagonbroadbandmicrostripantenna.ByloadingshortingpinsandetchingV-shapeslotswithdifferentsizeateachangleoftheregularhexagonpatch,itrealizesimpedancematchingandobtainsbetterimpedancebandwidth.Thesimulatedresultsshowthattherelativebandwidthofthisantennareaches35.55%,coversthefrequencybandof4.74GHzto6.79GHz.Theantennaacquiresanomni-directionalradiationpatterninthehorizontalplanewhoseoutofroundnessislessthan0.5dB.Inaddition,theantennaismanufacturedandtested,whosetestedresultsarebasicallyconsistentwithsimulatedresults.Becausetheheightofantennais3mm,itiseasytobehiddenonroofofavehicleforV2Vcommunication.
简介:AgeneralizedspectralGreen’sfunctionformulationofN-layersubstratestructureisgivenwiththreedimensionsources,whichisasetofclosedformformulas.Afull-waveanalysismodelforrectangularmicrostripantennascoveredwithN-dielectriclayershasbeenestablishedbyusingtheabovespectralGreen’sfunction.Theunknownsurfacecurrentdensityontheniicrostrippatchforsuchstructureisfoundasasolutionofanintegralequation.TheinputVSWRandradiationpatternsoftheantennaarealsoobtained.Thenumericalresultshavebeenverifiedbytheexperimentalresults.
简介:Theprobe-fedpatchantennaswereproposedbychangingtheparameterssuchasdielectricmaterialsanddimensionsofpatchfordetailinvestigationofchangesinoutputcharacteristics.Fourrectangularslotswereintroducedseparatelyforoptimizingtheantennadesignandcharacteristics.Thisstudyillustratedthechangesofoutputcharacteristicsofanantennawithrespecttothenumberofintroducedslotsontheradiatingpatchinadditiontotheeffectofvariousdielectricmaterialsonantennaperformances.Theantennaperformanceswereanalyzedbyplottingtheobservationofvariousdielectricmaterials.Thechangesofantennacharacteristicswerealsoobservedbyintroducingfournumbersofslotsoneachedgeofthepatchtoimproveradiationcharacteristicswithawiderimpedancebandwidth.
简介:Thispaperpresentstheanalysisofopenmicrostripstructuresbyusingdiakopticmethodoflines(ML)combinedwithperiodicboundaryconditions(PBC).Theparametersofmicrostrippatchareobtainedfrompatchcurrentexcitedbyplanewave.ImpedancematrixelementsarecomputedbyusingfastFouriertransform(FFT),andreducedequationissolvedbyusingdiakoptictechnique.Consequently,thecomputingtimeisreducedsignificantly.TheconvergencepropertyofsimulatingopenstructurebyusingPBCandthecomparisonofthecomputertimebetweenusingPBCandusualabsorbingboundarycondition(ABC)showthevalidityofthemethodproposedinthispaper.Finally,theresonantfrequencyofamicrostrippatchiscomputed.Thenumericalresultsobtainedareingoodagreementwiththosepublished.
简介:Inrecentyears,microstripantennashavebeenmorewidelyappliedinsatellitecommunications,mobilephones,unmannedaerialvehicle(UAV),andweapons.Amicro-electro-mechanicalsystems-based(MEMS-based)high-resistancesiliconC-bandmicrostripantennaarrayhasbeendesignedfortheintelligentammunition.Thecenterfrequencyis4.5GHz.Acavityhasbeendesignedinsubstratetoreducethedielectricconstantofsiliconandhigh-resistancesiliconhasbeenusedasthematerialofsubstratetoimprovethegainofantenna.ItisveryeasytobemanufacturedbyusingMEMStechnologybecauseoftheimprovedstructureoftheantenna.Theresultsshowthatthegainoftheantennais8dBandvoltagestandingwaveratio(VSWR)islessthan2bytheanalysisandsimulationinhighfrequencystructuresimulator(HFSS).