Microstrip Antennas

552 Pages·2011·36.49 MB·English

by  Nasimuddin Nasimuddin

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS
Edited by Nasimuddin
Microstrip Antennas
Edited by Nasimuddin
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Contents
Preface IX
Chapter 1 Design of Low-Cost Probe-Fed Microstrip Antennas 1
D. C. Nascimento and J. C. da S. Lacava
Chapter 2 Analysis of a Rectangular Microstrip Antenna
on a Uniaxial Substrate 27
Amel Boufrioua
Chapter 3 Artificial Materials based Microstrip Antenna Design 43
Merih Palandöken
Chapter 4 Particle-Swarm-Optimization-Based Selective Neural
Network Ensemble and Its Application to Modeling
Resonant Frequency of Microstrip Antenna 69
Tian Yu-Bo and Xie Zhi-Bin
Chapter 5 Microstrip Antennas Conformed
onto Spherical Surfaces 83
Daniel B. Ferreira and J. C. da S. Lacava
Chapter 6 Mathematical Modeling of Spherical
Microstrip Antennas and Applications 109
Nikolaos L. Tsitsas and Constantinos A. Valagiannopoulos
Chapter 7 Cavity-Backed Cylindrical Wraparound Antennas 131
O. M. C. Pereira-Filho, T. B. Ventura, C. G. Rego,
A. F. Tinoco-S., and J. C. da S. Lacava
Chapter 8 Analysis into Proximity-Coupled
Microstrip Antenna on Dielectric Lens 155
Lawrence Mall
Chapter 9 Methods to Design Microstrip Antennas
for Modern Applications 173
K. Siakavara
VI Contents
Chapter 10 Fractal-Shaped Reconfigurable Antennas 237
Ali Ramadan, Mohammed Al-Husseini,
Karim Y. Kabalan and Ali El-Hajj
Chapter 11 A Microstrip Antenna Shape Grammar 251
Adrian Muscat and Joseph A. Zammit
Chapter 12 Electrically Small Microstrip Antennas Targeting
Miniaturized Satellites: the CubeSat Paradigm 273
Constantine Kakoyiannis and Philip Constantinou
Chapter 13 Circularly Polarized Microstrip Antennas
with Proximity Coupled Feed for Circularly
Polarized Synthetic Aperture Radar 317
Merna Baharuddin and Josaphat Tetuko Sri Sumantyo
Chapter 14 Circularly Polarized Slotted/Slit-Microstrip
Patch Antennas 341
Nasimuddin, Zhi-Ning Chen and Xianming Qing
Chapter 15 Microstrip Antenna Arrays 361
Albert Sabban
Chapter 16 Microstrip Antennas
for Indoor Wireless Dynamic Environments 385
Mohamed Elhefnawy and Widad Ismail
Chapter 17 DBDP SAR Microstrip Array Technology 433
Shun-Shi Zhong
Chapter 18 Microwave Properties of Dielectric Materials 453
JS Mandeep and Loke Ngai Kin
Chapter 19 Hybrid Microstrip Antennas 473
Alexandre Perron, Tayeb A. Denidni and Abdel R. Sebak
Chapter 20 Integration of 60-GHz Microstrip Antennas
with CMOS Chip 491
Gordana Klaric Felic and Efstratios Skafidas
Chapter 21 A Practical Guide to 3D Electromagnetic Software Tools 507
Guy A. E. Vandenbosch and Alexander Vasylchenko

Preface
The microstrip antennas are low-profi le, low weight, ease of fabrication, conformable
to planar and non-planar surfaces and mechanically robust. In the last 40 years, the
microstrip antenna has been developed for many communication systems such as ra-
dars, sensors, wireless, satellite, broadcasting, ultra-wideband, radio frequency iden-
tifi cations (RFIDs), reader devices etc.. The progress in modern wireless communica-
tion systems has increased dramatically the demand for microstrip antennas, capable
to be embedded in portable, handheld devices such RFID handheld reader, devices
which provide a wireless network. Recently, demands of these devices with smaller
in size and therefore antennas required smaller and light weight especially at the low
microwave frequency range. The microstrip antennas can be designed in very small
size with lower gain and bandwidth. For portable and handheld devices, gain and
bandwidth of the antenna is not so important. However antenna meets some gain with
desired bandwidth constraint. For millimeter wave applications, the antenna has to be
high gain with broadband impedance bandwidth.
In this book some recent advances in the microstrip antennas are presented while high-
lighting the theoretical and practical design techniques for various wireless system
applications. The microstrip antennas on various available substrate materials such as
artifi cial material, uni-axial and ferrite are analyzed and designed for reconfi gurable,
dual and tunable applications. The small microstrip antennas can be designed using
artifi cial materials. Various shaped radiators are also studied for compact antenna size
and circular polarization radiation. The circularly polarized microstrip antennas with
diff erent feeding system and various shaped slott ed microstrip patch radiators is also
studied and compared for compact size and broadband applications. The microstrip
antennas are also considered as a sensor for detection of materials properties. Finally,
the microstrip antennas for millimeter-wave applications are also covered in this book.
New emerging wireless systems that operate at millimeter wave frequencies, such as
high data rate 60-GHz transceivers for wireless personal area networks (WPAN), use
integrated antennas. Therefore, antennas for these systems are commonly implement-
ed on in-package solutions. The integration of antenna-in-package is also covered by
using wire bonding or fl ip-chip bonding interconnections. Lastly, the 3D electromag-
netic soft ware tools for microstrip antennas designing is demonstrated for helping the
microstrip antenna designers. The proposed microstrip antennas book is useful for
students, researchers and microstrip antenna design engineers.
The microstrip antennas book covers diff erent types of the microstrip antennas and ar-
rays. The book chapters are from experts/scientists in the area of the microstrip antennas
X Preface
and applied electromagnetics. First book chapter begins introduction of the microstrip
antennas with low-cost probe-fed microstrip antenna design methods. Analysis of the
rectangular microstrip antennas on uni-axial and artifi cial material substrates are pre-
sented in chapters 2 and 3, respectively. A particle-swarm-optimization based selective
neural network ensemble and its application to modeling resonant frequency of the
microstrip antenna are described in chapter 4. Chapters 5-8 present analysis of the
microstrip antennas on the spherical surfaces, cylindrical wraparound, and dielectric
lens. Various shapes with slott ed/slit microstrip antennas are presented in chapters 9-17
for various wireless system applications such as multiband, reconfi gurable antennas,
compact microstrip antennas and circularly polarized microstrip antennas etc.. These
chapters are also presented in comparison with slott ed/slit microstrp antennas based
on fi xed overall antenna size. In chapters 18-19, the microstrip antennas are proposed
for detection of material properties. The hybrid microstrip antennas and integration
of the microstrip antennas with CMOS Chip for millimeter applications are described
in chapters 20-21. The last book chapter is a practical guide to 3D electromagnetic soft -
ware tools for analysis of the planar antennas and this helps reader with general guide-
lines for antenna design using the 3D electromagnetic soft ware tools.
Nasimuddin
Institute for Infocomm Research
Singapore