Abstract
Multilayer antennas - for example, stacked patches - often employ low permittivity substrates, such as foams. These foams, however, tend to be fragile, difficult to glue, and difficult to bend. In a previous contribution, the authors described how a Duroid substrate may be drilled in order to obtain a low permittivity synthetic dielectric. This paper shows, by means of both practical and numerical experiments, the results of using such a substrate in a range of multilayer antennas.
| Translated title of the contribution | Multilayer and conformal antennas using synthetic dielectric substrates |
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| Original language | English |
| Article number | Issue 4 |
| Pages (from-to) | 905 - 908 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2003 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)Rose publication type: Journal article
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Keywords
- conformal
- finite-difference time-domain (FDTD)
- synthetic dielectric
- multi-layer antennas