Design of Inset-Fed Microstrip Rectangular Truncated Array Antennas

Author

Yussof, Harith ; Zakaria, Nur Ayu Zalina ; Sulaiman, Ahmad Asari

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng., Univ. Teknologi Mara, Selangor

fYear

2006

fDate

12-14 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

367

Lastpage

371

Abstract

This paper presents two designs of array antenna from type of inset-fed microstrip rectangular truncated. Combinations of two- and four-patches using quarter-wave impedance matching technique have been used to design the array antennas operate at 10 GHz with voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) less than two. Both designs were simulated using HP EEsof LIBRA and were fabricated on RT/Duroid 5870 substrate with dielectric constant, epsivr of 2.33 and thickness, h of 0.5 mm. Data analysis also has been done to compare the results between simulation and measurement from scalar network analyser (SNA). The results showed that the combination of more patches in array antenna can improve the VSWR and return loss

Keywords

impedance matching; microstrip antenna arrays; microwave antenna arrays; network analysers; permittivity; 0.5 mm; 10 GHz; 2.33 mm; HP EEsof LIBRA; data analysis; dielectric constant; inset-fed microstrip antennas; quarter-wave impedance matching technique; rectangular truncated array antennas; scalar network analyser; voltage standing wave ratio; Analytical models; Antenna arrays; Antenna measurements; Data analysis; Dielectric constant; Dielectric substrates; Impedance matching; Microstrip antenna arrays; Microstrip antennas; Voltage; array antenna; inset-fed; microstrip patch;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

RF and Microwave Conference, 2006. RFM 2006. International

Conference_Location

Putra Jaya

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9745-2

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9745-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFM.2006.331106

Filename

4133621