Small planar broadside radiation leaky wave antenna design

Author

Cheng, Guang-Fu ; Tzuang, Ching-Kuang C.

Author_Institution

Grad. Inst. of Commun. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

2010

fDate

11-17 July 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The wireless communication systems in the last decade have an explosive growth. Antennas play an important part of the rapid growth of wireless communication systems. With this growth, great demands have come for antennas with low cost, low profile, light weight, easy fabrication, and suitability for mass production in order to support every aspect of communication systems. Microstrip antenna is one of the most popular choices for antenna design with above features. However, high radiation efficiency microstrip antenna is difficult to design due to its resonance phenomenon. Microstrip leaky wave antenna (LWA), becomes the good candidate to overcome this difficulty. In this paper a novel, size efficient antenna design, providing broadside radiation pattern has been presented. The measured results show a good agreement with the preliminary design and confirm the design concepts.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; leaky wave antennas; microstrip antennas; planar antennas; broadside radiation pattern; microstrip antenna; microstrip leaky wave antenna; small planar broadside radiation leaky wave antenna design; wireless communication systems; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Leaky wave antennas; Microstrip; Microstrip antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Toronto, ON

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4967-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2010.5560919

Filename

5560919