Application of “bull's eye” corrugated grooves integrated with artificially soft surfaces structure in the patch antenna to improve radiation performance
✍ Scribed by Cheng Huang; Zeyu Zhao; Xiangang Luo
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 360 KB
- Volume
- 51
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0895-2477
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
In this article, a Bull's eye corrugated structure integrated with artificially soft surfaces structure is proposed as the ground plane in the patch antenna. This structure is based on the modulation of surface wave by the bull's eye corrugated structure and the suppression of surplus surface wave at grounded edge by artificially soft surfaces structure. A numerical investigation for the patch antenna surrounded with combined corrugated grooves ground is presented using finite difference time domain method. The gain of the patch antenna is significantly improved by 12.3 dB, and half power beamwidth in the E and H‐plane are dramatically suppressed. The backward radiation is also reduced by 10 dB, which greatly enhances the Front to Backward (F/B) radiation ratio. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 51: 1676–1679, 2009; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.24443