Hybrid model for probe-fed rectangular microstrip antennas with shorting pins
Date
2000Source Title
Proceedings of the Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, IEEE 2000
Print ISSN
0272-4693
Publisher
IEEE
Pages
1448 - 1451
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
For a probe-fed microstrip antenna, it is quite common to employ the cavity model to find the field distribution under the patch and other electrical properties. Therefore, a multiport analysis technique based on the cavity model is usually employed to predict the input impedance of a probe-fed microstrip antenna with shorting pins. However, this approach does not provide any information about the field distribution under the patch with the shorting pins, which is usually used to calculate the radiation properties of the patch antenna. In this study, shorting pins are considered as current sources with unknown amplitudes, and the field distribution under the patch is obtained as a linear superposition of the contributions from each source via cavity model. Then, the unknown current densities over the shorting pins are determined by implementing the boundary condition of the tangential electric field on the pins. This is a hybrid approach because the field distribution is calculated from the cavity model, and the current densities over the shorting pins are obtained from the point matching of the resulting field distributions over the shorting conductors. The input impedance results found from this approach agree extremely well with those obtained from the multiport analysis, which shows that the proposed approach predicts both the input impedance and the field distribution under the patch. In addition, since the feeding probe is also made of PEC, the electric field under the patch should satisfy the boundary condition on this conductor as well. In the application of the cavity model, this is always ignored, with the assumption that the source probe is too thin to affect the field distribution under the patch significantly. In this study, the boundary condition of the electric field is implemented over the source, and its effect on the field distribution, in turn on the resonant frequency, is demonstrated.
Keywords
Input impedanceProbe fed rectangular microstrip antennas
Shorting pins
Antenna feeders
Antenna radiation
Boundary conditions
Electric fields
Electric impedance
Natural frequencies
Microstrip antennas
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