Enhanced bandwidth “bull´s eye” antenna using corrugated metalized plastic

Author

Kyoung Youl Park ; Meierbachtol, Collin S. ; Chahal, Premjeet

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

7-13 July 2013

Firstpage

970

Lastpage

971

Abstract

This paper presents a plastic, surface plasmon (SP) enhanced bullseye antenna for millimeter wave and terahertz (THz) frequency range. A low refractive index plastic layer is used to confine incident electromagnetic energy to the structure. A metal grating layer focuses the incident wave through a subwavelength aperture via SP. The electromagnetic propagation characteristics were simulated and analyzed using both FDTD and commercial FEM software tools. The structure was also fabricated, and experimental data will be presented at the time of the conference.

Keywords

electromagnetic wave propagation; finite difference time-domain analysis; finite element analysis; millimetre wave antennas; refractive index; submillimetre wave antennas; surface plasmons; FDTD; bulls eye antenna; commercial FEM software tools; corrugated metalized plastic; electromagnetic energy; electromagnetic propagation; metal grating layer; millimeter wave frequency range; plastic layer; refractive index; surface plasmon; terahertz frequency range; Apertures; Metals; Optical surface waves; Plasmons; Plastics; Time-domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5315-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2013.6711144

Filename

6711144