Thin and compact dual-band four-element broadside patch antenna arrays Articles uri icon

publication date

  • January 2014

start page

  • 567

end page

  • 570

volume

  • 13

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 1536-1225

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1548-5757

abstract

  • This letter presents two configurations of thin and compact dual-band four-element broadside patch antenna arrays. They are built by feeding four dual-band patch radiating elements through a feeding patch by parasitic coupling. Similar to the electrically steerable passive array radiator (ESPAR), a driven element is directly excited from the power source, and then a number of passive radiating elements are excited through mutual coupling. The proposed dual-band arrays have the advantages of simple single-layer structure, ease of fabrication, low profile, light weight, and high gain. The performances of the dual-band arrays are analyzed in terms of antenna gain, radiation pattern, impedance matching and total efficiency, thereby validating the dual-band array configurations. © 2014 IEEE.

subjects

  • Telecommunications

keywords

  • broadside array; microstrip antenna; antenna arrays; directional patterns (antenna); array configurations; broadside arrays; electrically steerable passive array radiators; mutual coupling; parasitic couplings; radiating elements; single-layer structure; total efficiency; microstrip antennas