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A novel suspended stripline‐fed printed square slot array antenna with high‐gain
Author(s) -
He Juntao,
Chen Xing,
Huang Kama
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
international journal of rf and microwave computer‐aided engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1099-047X
pISSN - 1096-4290
DOI - 10.1002/mmce.20395
Subject(s) - stripline , square (algebra) , antenna (radio) , microwave , electrical engineering , radiation pattern , high gain antenna , electrical impedance , bandwidth (computing) , materials science , optoelectronics , engineering , optics , physics , telecommunications , mathematics , geometry
A novel suspended stripline‐fed square slot array antenna with high gain is presented. Its basic structure is a suspended stripline comprising of three layers. On the top layer, 4 × 4 square slots are etched and act as radiation elements. The middle layer consists of a suspended stripline power divider, and the bottom layer is a metal ground. After optimization by a parallel Genetic Algorithm (GA) on a cluster system, a prototype antenna is fabricated and tested. The measured results agree well with the simulated data, and show a high gain of 18.7 dBi and an impedance bandwidth of 5.7% for S11<‐10 dB are obtained. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE, 2009.