The effects of a finite ground plane on the characteristics of printed patch antennas with and without a suspended patch

Bobor-Oyibo, Freeborn, Smith, Dave and Foti, Steve (2010) The effects of a finite ground plane on the characteristics of printed patch antennas with and without a suspended patch. In: 7th international Symposium on Communication Systems networks and Digital Signal processing (CSNDSP) 2010, 21-23 July 2010, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

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Abstract

In most analyses of microstrip patch antennas the effects of a finite ground plane are neglected because it is assumed infinite. However, in mobile communication systems the ground plane of antennas must be finite. Therefore, the effect of the finite ground plane on the characteristics of printed patch antenna elements is worth investigation. In this paper a stacked patch antenna has been proposed and the effects of a finite ground plane on the total radiation pattern are investigated. In fact, we have shown that a truncated ground plane of width approximately one wavelength will produce a 3dB beam width for the patch of approximately 65 degrees in contrast to the 90 degrees which occurs for an infinite ground plane. A physical description of the reason for this is included.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords: mobile communication systems, educational institutions , microstrip , substrates
Subjects: G900 Others in Mathematical and Computing Sciences
Department: Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering
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Depositing User: EPrint Services
Date Deposited: 01 Jun 2011 12:23
Last Modified: 13 Oct 2019 00:30
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/2413

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