Back Radiation Reduction in Patch Antennas Using Planar Soft Surfaces Articles uri icon

publication date

  • June 2009

start page

  • 123

end page

  • 130

volume

  • 6

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 1043-626X

abstract

  • In this work, we propose to use a type of periodic structures, the soft surfaces in their planar version, to reduce the back radiation of patch antennas. A key aspect of these surfaces when compared to other periodic structures is their anisotropy which provides different behaviour for different field polarization (horizontal or vertical). This make them especially convenient for this application, as the soft surfaces force the field intensity for any polarization to be zero on the surface for waves propagating along the surface. In this paper, a design example is presented and the back radiation reduction by using planar soft surfaces is demonstrated.