TY - GEN
T1 - A printed array antenna for multi-layer PCB design
AU - Eu, Guan Chai
AU - Mansour, Mohamed
AU - Yoshitomi, Kuniaki
AU - Kanaya, Haruichi
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partly supported by a Grant-in-Aid for KAKENHI, CREST from JSPS, Japan and also partly supported by VDEC of the University of Tokyo in collaboration with Keysight Corporation. The authors would like to thank staff of Kyushu Ten for their technical assistance and support in fabrication.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/12/19
Y1 - 2017/12/19
N2 - This paper presents a design of 1×4 printed array antenna excited by proximity coupling. The gain of patch antenna built on thin substrate is usually inferior to the one with thicker substrate of the same material. The goal of this work is to design an antenna with realized gain less responsive to substrate thickness. Patch antenna fed by two-layer proximity coupled feeding line is introduced to alleviate gain degradation caused by thin substrate. Proposed antenna is compared with conventional patch antenna in simulation. 1×4 array antenna is fabricated on multi-layer PCB to validate our design. Array antenna fabricated on FR-4 substrate exhibits good radiation characteristics and a flat gain response from 7.7 to 8.3 GHz is measured. Measured radiation patterns of array antenna are similar to simulations.
AB - This paper presents a design of 1×4 printed array antenna excited by proximity coupling. The gain of patch antenna built on thin substrate is usually inferior to the one with thicker substrate of the same material. The goal of this work is to design an antenna with realized gain less responsive to substrate thickness. Patch antenna fed by two-layer proximity coupled feeding line is introduced to alleviate gain degradation caused by thin substrate. Proposed antenna is compared with conventional patch antenna in simulation. 1×4 array antenna is fabricated on multi-layer PCB to validate our design. Array antenna fabricated on FR-4 substrate exhibits good radiation characteristics and a flat gain response from 7.7 to 8.3 GHz is measured. Measured radiation patterns of array antenna are similar to simulations.
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U2 - 10.1109/ISANP.2017.8228731
DO - 10.1109/ISANP.2017.8228731
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85046423635
T3 - 2017 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, ISAP 2017
SP - 1
EP - 2
BT - 2017 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, ISAP 2017
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2017 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, ISAP 2017
Y2 - 30 October 2017 through 2 November 2017
ER -