Multilayer Partially Reflective Surfaces for Broadband Fabry-Perot Cavity Antennas

Author

Konstantinidis, Konstantinos ; Feresidis, Alexandros P. ; Hall, Peter S.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron., Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

Volume

62

Issue

7

fYear

2014

fDate

41821

Firstpage

3474

Lastpage

3481

Abstract

A high-gain broadband Fabry-Perot-type antenna is proposed, based on multilayer periodic partially reflective surfaces (PRSs). Three layers of PRSs are employed, consisting of metallic patches printed on thin dielectric substrates and placed in front of a ground plane, forming three open cavities. The antenna performance is based on the reflection characteristics of the PRS array, which are obtained using periodic analysis. An equivalent circuit approach is presented for the design of the multilayer PRSs showing very good agreement with full-wave analysis. The geometry has been optimized using full-wave simulations (CST Microwave Studio). An antenna of around 20-dBi gain at an operating frequency of 14.5 GHz is obtained with a 3-dB bandwidth of about 15%, outperforming earlier antenna designs based on two-layer PRS. A prototype has been fabricated and tested, validating the simulation results.

Keywords

broadband antennas; equivalent circuits; geometry; CST microwave studio; PRS array; broadband Fabry-Perot cavity antennas; equivalent circuit approach; frequency 14.5 GHz; full-wave analysis; full-wave simulations; multilayer partially reflective surfaces; periodic analysis; thin dielectric substrates; Arrays; Broadband antennas; Cavity resonators; Equivalent circuits; Integrated circuit modeling; Resonant frequency; Broadband antennas; Fabry-Perot cavities (FPC); high gain; leaky wave antennas; partially reflective surface (PRS); periodic structures;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-926X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TAP.2014.2320755

Filename

6807706