Title :
Design considerations for LTCC based UWB antennas for space applications
Author :
Hussain, Babar ; Kianpour, I. ; Grade Tavares, V. ; Mendonca, H.S. ; Miskovic, G. ; Radosavljevic, G. ; Petrovic, V.V.
Author_Institution :
INESC-TEC Fac. of Eng., Univ. of Porto Porto, Porto, Portugal
Abstract :
This paper presents a planar antenna using low temperature co-fired ceramics (LTCC) substrate for extreme environment applications. An ultra wideband (UWB) elliptical patch antenna was designed and fabricated using an LTCC Ceramtec GC substrate to demonstrate the capabilities of the technology for wideband applications. The simulated results were further validated experimentally. The fabricated antenna provides a peak gain of 5dB over a bandwidth of 4 GHz (3 GHz-7 GHz) with return loss better than -10dB. The radiation pattern is omni-directional in the horizontal plane (θ=900) over the whole frequency range.
Keywords :
antenna radiation patterns; ceramics; microstrip antennas; microwave antennas; omnidirectional antennas; ultra wideband antennas; GC substrate; LTCC substrate; UWB elliptical patch antenna; antenna radiation pattern; bandwidth 4 GHz; frequency 3 GHz to 7 GHz; gain 5 dB; low temperature cofired ceramics substrate; omnidirectional antenna; planar antenna; space application; ultrawideband elliptical patch antenna; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Bandwidth; Metallization; Substrates; Ultra wideband antennas; High Dielectric Constant Substrate; LTCC; Uwb Antennas;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE), 2014 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Noordwijk
DOI :
10.1109/WiSEE.2014.6973068
