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Design of Inductive Loaded Microstrip Patch Antennas with Suppressed Radiations along Horizontal Directions

수평방향 방사가 억제된 Inductive loaded 마이크로스트립 패치 안테나의 설계

  • 윤영민 (숭실대학교 정보통신전자공학부) ;
  • 곽은혁 (숭실대학교 정보통신전자공학부) ;
  • 김부균 (숭실대학교 정보통신전자공학부)
  • Received : 2011.11.11
  • Accepted : 2012.02.17
  • Published : 2012.02.25
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Abstract

The inductive loaded patch antenna with suppressed radiation along the horizontal plane and enhanced broadside gain is investigated by adjusting the width and the via radius of a unit cell at a fixed length of a unit cell. The effects of the via radius and the width of the unit cell on the dispersion characteristics of the inductive loaded transmission line are investigated. The systematic study to determine the via radius and the width of the unit cell for the effective dielectric constant of the inductive loaded patch antenna close to 1 in order to suppress the radiation along the horizontal plane is presented. Inductive loaded patch antennas composed of five unit cells with resonant frequency of 5 GHz are designed and their radiation characteristics are presented. The horizontal radiation along the E-plane is greatly suppressed to less than -15 dBi when the effective dielectric constant of the inductive loaded patch antenna is slightly less than 1.

단위 셀의 길이를 고정시키고 단위 셀의 폭과 via를 변화시켜 수평방향 방사가 억제되고 전방방향 방사가 증가하여 방사특성이 향상되는 inductive loaded 패치 안테나에 대하여 연구하였다. Inductive loaded 전송선을 구성하는 단위 셀의 구조 파라미터인 via 반경과 단위 셀 패치의 면적에 따라 분산 특성을 살펴보았다. 수평방향의 방사를 억제시키기 위해 inductive loaded 패치 안테나의 유효유전상수를 1과 가깝게 만드는 via의 반경과 단위 셀 패치의 폭을 결정하는 방법을 체계적으로 설명하였다. 5 GHz에서 동작하는 $5{\times}1$ inductive loaded 패치 안테나를 설계하여 방사특성을 전산모의한 결과 유효유전상수가 1보다 다소작을 때 E-평면 방향 수평 방사가 약 -15 dBi 이하로 크게 억제됨을 확인하였다.

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