Design and implementation of broadband partially reflective surface antenna

Author

Lu, Yi-Fong ; Lin, Yi-Cheng

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

2011

fDate

3-8 July 2011

Firstpage

2250

Lastpage

2253

Abstract

This paper presents a partially reflective surface (PRS) antenna with bandwidth enhancement using two-layer periodic strips. The antenna consists of a PRS of double-sided PCB, a U-slotted patch antenna for excitation, and a backed electric ground plane. The PRS is comprised of two metallic layers of orthogonal strips etched on PCB surfaces, placed about a half-wavelength above the electric ground plane. The PRS characteristics are analyzed by the equivalent circuit model where the equivalent admittances of two metallic layers of PRS are extracted from the reflection coefficients. According to the model, we provide an explanation for the reason why the reflection phase of the presented PRS may maintain flat against frequencies. The presented antenna was fabricated and measured. Experimental results show that the bandwidth enhancement is validated with a comparison with the conventional PRS antenna.

Keywords

broadband antennas; electromagnetic wave reflection; equivalent circuits; microstrip antennas; periodic structures; photonic band gap; slot antennas; U-slotted patch antenna; antenna measurement; bandwidth enhancement; broadband partially reflective surface antenna design; double-sided PCB; electric ground plane; electromagnetic band gap; equivalent circuit model; metallic layers; orthogonal strips; reflection coefficients; two-layer periodic strips; Antenna measurements; Bandwidth; Broadband antennas; Broadband communication; Integrated circuit modeling; Reflection; Partially reflective surface (PRS); electromagnetic band gap (EBG); high gain antenna; resonant cavity; transverse equivalent network (TEN);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI), 2011 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Spokane, WA

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9562-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2011.5996964

Filename

5996964