Title :
Design of broadside, uniformly fed, planar aperture coupled microstrip patch arrays
Author :
Botha, M.M. ; Davidson, D.B.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Stellenbosch Univ., South Africa
fDate :
6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The design of broadside, uniformly fed, planar aperture coupled microstrip patch arrays is addressed. Individual elements were designed using Mstrip40, a MoM microstrip analysis program, Designing, measuring and performing a FEM analysis on a 3 GHz element successfully validated the procedure. 4 and 16 element, 9 GHz arrays were designed. Pattern and S11 measurements as well as theoretical patterns are presented
Keywords :
antenna radiation patterns; finite element analysis; method of moments; microstrip antenna arrays; planar antenna arrays; 3 GHz; 9 GHz; FEM analysis; MoM microstrip analysis program; Mstrip40 program; S11 measurements; broadside uniformly fed microstrip patch arrays; pattern measurement; planar aperture coupled microstrip patch arrays; Antenna measurements; Apertures; Feeds; Guidelines; Message-oriented middleware; Microstrip antenna arrays; Microstrip antennas; Patch antennas; Performance analysis; Performance evaluation;
Conference_Titel :
Africon, 1999 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Cape Town
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5546-6
DOI :
10.1109/AFRCON.1999.821912
