| Title |
A Compact Feeding Structure for an Wide-band Array Antenna using a Microstrip Metamatreial UWB Power Divider |
| Authors |
엄다정(Eom, Da-Jeong) ; 강승택(Kahng, Sung-Tek) ; 박정훈(Park, Jeong-Hoon) |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5370/KIEE.2012.61.8.1159 |
| Keywords |
Power divider ; Metamaterial ; ZOR ; UWB ; Array antenna |
| Abstract |
In this paper, a new method is suggested to reduce the size of a wide-band array antenna. The power-divider for the feeding structure is made compact as {Λ}/8 with the help of a novel Metamaterial UWB bandpass filter. This power divider is clearly different from others in that the proposed design uses microstrip structured Composite Right and Left-Handed (CRLH) filters, while others use two dielectric layers or long tapered transmission lines. In order to validate the proposed design method, the circuit and full-wave simulated results of the power divider with the Metamaterial UWB filters are compared to each other, and the Metamaterial properties of the structure are shown with the electric field at the ZOR and dispersion diagram. Furthermore, the antenna performance of the fabricated antenna with the power divider is measured and compared with the prediction. Also, the size reduction effect by the proposed scheme is addressed. |