A Low-Profile Wideband Aperture-Fed Microstrip Antenna With Improved Radiation Patterns

A low-profile wideband aperture-fed microstrip patch antenna (MPA) under radiation of TM 12 and TM 30 modes is proposed with improved radiation patterns. Initially, the radiation characteristic of a rectangular MPA operating in TM 30 mode is theoretically investigated. The results demonstrate that i...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on antennas and propagation 2019-01, Vol.67 (1), p.562-567
Main Authors: Liu, Neng-Wu, Zhu, Lei, Choi, Wai-Wa, Fu, Guang
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antenna radiation patterns
Antennas
Aperture fed
Apertures
Bandwidths
Broadband
Electric fields
Impedance
low profile
Microstrip
Microstrip antennas
microstrip patch antenna (MPA)
Patch antennas
radiation pattern improvement
Resonant frequencies
Sidelobe reduction
Sidelobes
wide bandwidth
Wideband
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Summary:A low-profile wideband aperture-fed microstrip patch antenna (MPA) under radiation of TM 12 and TM 30 modes is proposed with improved radiation patterns. Initially, the radiation characteristic of a rectangular MPA operating in TM 30 mode is theoretically investigated. The results demonstrate that its E-plane sidelobe could be gradually reduced by decreasing the resonant frequency of TM 30 mode ( {f} _{30} ). As such, a pair of parallel slots is etched out on the radiating patch so as to significantly decrease the {f} _{30} . After that, the MPA under an operation of TM 12 mode is further studied. It illustrates that its radiation pattern has the maximum off broadside direction and can be transformed into the broadside radiation by enlarging the length of the parallel slots. In addition, the width of the radiating patch is progressively enlarged in order to reallocate the dual modes in proximity to each other. With these arrangements, a wide bandwidth with improved radiation characteristics is obtained for the antenna under dual resonance. Finally, a prototype aperture-coupled MPA is fabricated and measured. The simulated and measured results agree well with each other, thus demonstrating that its impedance bandwidth is dramatically extended to about 14.8% with a low-profile property of about 0.048 free-space wavelength in thickness. Besides, the antenna has achieved a stable gain varied from 7.0 to 9.9 dBi over the operating band. In particular, the E-plane sidelobe level of the proposed antenna has been successfully suppressed.
ISSN:0018-926X
1558-2221
DOI:10.1109/TAP.2018.2878099