Impedance characteristics of a millimeter wave MMIC active microstrip antenna by using FDTD method

Author

Bing, Weihua ; Arvas, Ercument

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Eng., Syracuse Univ., NY, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

1998

Firstpage

970

Lastpage

973

Abstract

A Ka-band MMIC active microstrip antenna is presented. The whole device consists of a GaAs microwave diode, a coplanar waveguide with an inductive slotted patch resonator, which acts simultaneously as a radio-active coupling aperture of a rectangular microstrip antenna and a microstrip rectangular patch antenna. The impedance characteristics of the antenna has been analyzed by using a direct three dimensional finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. The numerical results for the impedance of the antenna is shown to agree with the measurements

Keywords

MIMIC; active antennas; antenna theory; coplanar waveguide components; electric impedance; finite difference time-domain analysis; gallium arsenide; microstrip antennas; millimetre wave antennas; millimetre wave diodes; resonators; 3D FDTD method; CPW; EHF; GaAs; GaAs microwave diode; Ka-band; MM-wave antenna; active microstrip antenna; coplanar waveguide; finite-difference time-domain method; impedance characteristics; inductive slotted patch resonator; microstrip rectangular patch antenna; millimeter wave MMIC; radio-active coupling aperture; Diodes; Finite difference methods; Gallium arsenide; Impedance; MMICs; Microstrip antennas; Microstrip resonators; Microwave devices; Millimeter wave technology; Time domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology Proceedings, 1998. ICMMT '98. 1998 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4308-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMMT.1998.768451

Filename

768451