An Electrically Small Meandered Line Antenna with Truncated Ground Plane

被引:3
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作者
Nassar, Ibrahim T. [1 ]
Weller, Thomas M. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ S Florida, Dept Elect Engn, Ctr Wireless & Microwave Informat Syst, Tampa, FL 33620 USA
关键词
Balanced; Electrically small antenna; gain; ground plane; meandered line antenna; radiation efficiency measurement; Wheeler Cap Method;
D O I
10.1109/RWS.2011.5725417
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
An electrically small meandered microstrip line antenna was investigated. The antenna was designed, fabricated and measured for an operating frequency of 2.4 GHz with a 10 dB return loss bandwidth of 2%. In order to improve the efficiency and gain, a truncated ground plane was used, and its effect on balancing the antenna currents has been studied. A Wheeler Cap was designed for the efficiency measurement and the 3-antenna method was used for measuring the gain. Ka of this antenna is 0.26, it has a gain of 0.86 dB and an efficiency of 49.7%, making it one of the efficient and high gain small antennas.
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页码:94 / 97
页数:4
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