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2014-12-04
An Efficient Technique for Design of Electrically Thick Differentially-Driven Probe-Fed Microstrip Antennas
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Progress In Electromagnetics Research M, Vol. 40, 37-44, 2014
Abstract
This paper presents a computationally efficient technique for designing electrically thick differentially-driven rectangular microstrip antennas with coaxial probe feed. It concerns the use of a transmission line model for probe positioning, along with a full-wave field simulator that yields accurate results with reduced number of required full-wave simulations. An electrically thick antenna was designed with the proposed technique to operate at 2442 MHz, having its radiation patterns and input impedance measured and compared against a single-feed rectangular microstrip antenna to demonstrate the advantages of using differential feed to reduce cross-polarization in H-plane.
Citation
Cristiano Borges De Paula, Daniel Chagas do Nascimento, and Ildefonso Bianchi, "An Efficient Technique for Design of Electrically Thick Differentially-Driven Probe-Fed Microstrip Antennas," Progress In Electromagnetics Research M, Vol. 40, 37-44, 2014.
doi:10.2528/PIERM14110304
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