• DocumentCode
    2126927
  • Title

    Backing of microstrip patch antennas fed by coplanar waveguides

  • Author

    Giauffret, L. ; Laheurte, J.M.

  • Author_Institution
    Laboratoire d´´Electronique, Antennes et Telecommunications, Universite de Nice - Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, 250 rue Albert Einstein, 06560 Valbonne, France. Phone: +33-92 94 28 00, Fax: +33-92 94 28 12
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    6-13 Sept. 1996
  • Firstpage
    281
  • Lastpage
    283
  • Abstract
    A microstrip antenna fed by a conductor-backed coplanar waveguide is demonstrated. The addition of a back-side metallic ground plane involves a possible leakage of the CPW mode into Parallel Plate Modes (PPMs) or the excitation of these PPMs by the back-radiation of the coupling slot. A theoretical model, based on the solution of coupled integral equations, is validated by experimental results. It is shown that the power leakage can be avoided by a proper choice of the substrate characteristics.
  • Keywords
    Antenna feeds; Antennas and propagation; Coplanar waveguides; Green´s function methods; Integral equations; Microstrip antennas; Patch antennas; Permittivity; Planar waveguides; Resonance;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Conference, 1996. 26th European
  • Conference_Location
    Prague, Czech Republic
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EUMA.1996.337572
  • Filename
    4138627