Novel microstrip patch antenna design employing Extruded Polystyrene (XPS) substrate for GSM, IMT, WLAN, Bluetooth, WiMAX and X-band applications

Kalra, Payal; Aastha,; Sidhu, Ekambir

doi:10.1109/icacdot.2016.7877692

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New low loss soft thermoplastic blends for microwave applications

Sghaier¹,

Gibari²,

Guiffard³

2020

J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys.

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All organic soft dielectrics are growing more and more interest in the electronic industry owing to their light weight, low cost and the flexibility they yield compared to the rigid devices. In the specific field of microwave communicating devices planar printed (patch) antennas on a soft dielectric substrate are sought for their conformability and advantageous compactness. In this article, two soft thermoplastic elastomer blends based on polypropylene (PP) or lowdensity polyethylene (LDPE) were tested. The fabrication process and the established characterization steps have been fully presented. More specifically, in order to characterize the dielectric film up to 40 GHz, the microstrip ring resonator with coplanar waveguide access has been adapted to a new configuration specimen sample. The results of the characterizations obtained showed very encouraging performances for microwave applications. Indeed, the measured dielectric constant and loss tangent up to 40 GHz were found to be ε r ≈ 2.45 and tan δ ≈ 0.01 for both blends. The fabrication and the radiation characteristics of a patch antenna on a new performing PP or LDPEbased elastomer blends as the soft dielectric substrate was demonstrated and analysed. The proof of the concept of the investigated device consists of a microstrip patch antenna with an operation frequency of about 10 GHz. These dielectric features render the polyolefin based blends very promising as a soft material for microwave engineering, which is confirmed by the measured antenna properties: the gain, the directivity as well as the efficiency have been calculated from the measured radiation pattern and were recorded as 4.6 dB, 7.7 dB and 46% respectively for the rPP based blend and 4.8 dB, 8.1 dB and 51% for the LDPE based blend.

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New low loss soft thermoplastic blends for microwave applications

Sghaier¹,

Gibari²,

Guiffard³

2020

J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys.

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Harmonic suppression in microstrip patch antenna using spur-line filter

Batista

Souza

Silva

et al. 2017

2017 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference (IMOC)

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Experimental research of radio lens from a gas-filled material

Stepanov¹,

Тырыкин²,

Nikulin³

et al. 2020

Voprosy radioèlektroniki

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Radio lenses are often used as collimators. It is allow to convert a spherical phase front into a flat one, corresponding to the far zone of the electromagnetic wave source. The paper is dealt with the manufacturing of radio lenses from gas-filled materials. The sequence of actions performing which it is possible to make a radio lens from a gas-filled material is described. The results of experimental studies of a radio lens manufactured with using the proposed technology are presented. Studies are carried out with using an electromagnetic field scanner in the X-band. It is established that the use of a radio lens from a gas-filled material leads to equalization of the antenna aperture phase front. The use of lenses made of gas-filled material improves the shape of the antenna pattern significantly. This is confirmed by the graphs presented in the work and the fact that the use of a radio lens reduces the value of the integral error by approximately two orders of magnitude.

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Novel microstrip patch antenna design employing Extruded Polystyrene (XPS) substrate for GSM, IMT, WLAN, Bluetooth, WiMAX and X-band applications

Cited by 3 publications

References 9 publications

New low loss soft thermoplastic blends for microwave applications

New low loss soft thermoplastic blends for microwave applications

Harmonic suppression in microstrip patch antenna using spur-line filter

Experimental research of radio lens from a gas-filled material

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