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Three-Layer Electromagnetically Coupled Circular Microstrip Antennas

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Title Three-Layer Electromagnetically Coupled Circular Microstrip Antennas
 
Creator Revankar, U K
 
Subject Electrical Communication
Electromagnetically Coupled Circular Microstrip Antennas
Antenna Arrays
Three Layer EMC Microstrip Antenna Arrays
Microstrip Antennas
EMC Patch Structures
Multilayer Microstrip Antennas
Microstrip Arrays
Multilayer Patch Structures
Circular Microstrip Antenna
Triple-patch Antenna
Electromagnetically Coupled Patch Structure
Microstrip Antenna Arrays
 
Description Presented in this thesis are the following experimental and theoretical investigations carried out on the three-layer electromagnetically coupled (EMC) circular microstrip antennas and their arrays.

1.Three-Layer EMC Circular Microstrip Antenna

A three-layer EMC circular microstrip antenna consists of a probe-fed circular microstrip patch having two parasitically excited circular microstrip patches (without ground planes) stacked above it, with air gaps in between successive substrates. In the "inverted" configuration, the parasitic patches are on the lower (nearer to the driven substrate) surface of the substrate.

An exhaustive experimental study of the resonant frequencies, input impedance, impedance bandwidth and radiation characteristics of this antenna, has been carried out for both the "normal" and the "inverted" configurations. Based on this experimental study, the design and optimisation of the antenna have been discussed and experimentally tested. In the S-band, it is found that an impedance bandwidth as high as 20 percent coupled with good patterns, high gain and low cross-polarisation levels, have been obtained.

2.Three-Layer EMC Circular Microstrip Antenna Arrays

Experimental work has also been carried out on linear arrays of three-layer EMC circular microstrip antennas.

The design of a linear array both in the E- and H- planes, of the three-layer microstrip antennas in their "normal" as well as "inverted" configurations, has been discussed and realisation carried out. Impedance bandwidths of the arrays have been experimentally found to be the same as that of the three-layer antenna element High gain and good pattern shape with sidelobes as well as cross-polarisation levels better than -20 dB through a scan angle of 40°, have been realised.

A study of the mutual coupling between two-layer as well as three-layer EMC circular patch elements has also been carried out for the useful range of interelement spacings.

3.Theoretical Analysis of Resonant Frequencies of Multilayer Patch Structures

Theoretical investigations have been carried out on the resonance properties of single-layer and multilayer EMC patch structures employing the full-wave analysis based on spectral domain immittance approach. The impedance Green's functions for all these structures have been derived from the combination of equivalent transverse transmission lines concept Galerkin's method is employed in the spectral (Hankel) transform domain where two sets of disk current expansions are used for obtaining die characteristic equation. By solving the characteristic equation, the resonant frequencies are obtained for various values of the parameters of the layered antenna.
 
Publisher Indian Institute of Science
 
Contributor Kumar, A
 
Date 2006-10-13T10:40:01Z
2006-10-13T10:40:01Z
2006-10-13T10:40:01Z
1995-05
 
Type Electronic Thesis and Dissertation
 
Format 7490641 bytes
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Identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2005/241
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Language en
 
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