Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION
Volume 52, Issue 6, Pages 1446-1453Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.830252
Keywords
electromagnetic bandgap (EBG); microstrip antenna phased array; mutual coupling; uniplanar compact electromagnetic bandgap; (UC-EBG) geometry
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Uniplanar compact electromagnetic bandgap, (UC-EBG) substrate has been proven to be an effective measure to reduce surface wave excitation in printed antenna geometries. This paper investigates the performance of a microstrip antenna phased array embedded in an UC-EBG substrate. The results show a reduction. in mutual coupling between elements and provide a possible solution to the blind spots problem in phased array applications with printed elements. A novel and efficient UC-EBG array configuration is proposed. A probe fed patch antenna phased array of 7 x 5 elements on a high dielectric constant substrate was designed, built and tested. Simulation and measurement results show improvement in the active return loss and active pattern of the array center element. The tradeoffs used to obtain optimum performance are discussed.
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