Title :
Effect of substrate thickness on the performance of a printed planar monopole antenna (PMA)
Author :
Rayno, Jennifer Taylor ; Sharma, Satish K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., San Diego State Univ., San Diego, CA, USA
Abstract :
Substrate thickness was found to have a significant effect on the performance of a printed circular planar monopole antenna (PMA). As substrate thickness increased the following effects were observed: decreased impedance bandwidth, increased cross-polarization gain, decreased co-polarization gain, and multi-lobe radiation patterns towards the upper end of the band. Substrate dielectric constant mainly affected only the impedance bandwidth of the PMA in that increasing the substrate dielectric constant slightly decreased the impedance bandwidth.
Keywords :
antenna radiation patterns; microstrip antennas; monopole antennas; planar antennas; polarisation; PMA; cross-polarization gain; impedance bandwidth; multilobe radiation patterns; printed circular planar monopole antenna; printed planar monopole antenna; substrate dielectric constant; substrate thickness effect; Antenna radiation patterns; Bandwidth; Feeds; Gain; Impedance; Substrates;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0461-0
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2012.6348659
