Journal of Electromagnetic Analysis and Applications

Volume 6, Issue 6 (May 2014)

ISSN Print: 1942-0730   ISSN Online: 1942-0749

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Design and Analysis of Microstrip Antenna Arrays in Composite Laminated Substrates

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DOI: 10.4236/jemaa.2014.66011    10,145 Downloads   12,863 Views  Citations

ABSTRACT

In high performance aerospace systems where weight and aerodynamics are of major concern, fiber reinforced composite laminates can be tailored to achieve desirable mechanical properties and accommodate low-profile microstrip antenna. This work aims at the analysis of microstrip antenna array embedded in composite laminated substrates. The size of a single antenna is first calculated by spectral domain analysis to model the effects of the substrate’s electromagnetic property and the orientation of the laminate layers. The antenna array as well as the feed network, composed of microstrip transmission lines, quarter wave-length impedance transformers, and T-junction power dividers, is then tuned to accommodate the effects of the coupling between the antenna elements and the feed network loss. The performance of the 1 × 2, 1 × 4, and 1 × 8 linear array and 2 × 2 and 2 × 4 planar array are shown to have better directivity when embedded in composite laminated substrate compared with those when attached on isotropic substrate. Both 1 × 2 and 1 × 4 arrays at 2.4 GHz are validated experimentally to achieve better coverage.

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Yang, S. , Huang, C. and Hong, C. (2014) Design and Analysis of Microstrip Antenna Arrays in Composite Laminated Substrates. Journal of Electromagnetic Analysis and Applications, 6, 115-124. doi: 10.4236/jemaa.2014.66011.

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