Planar Circularly Symmetric Electromagnetic Band-Gap Antennas for Low Cost High Performance Integrated Antennas
conference paper
The use of Planar Circularly Symmetric (PCS)
Electromagnetic Band-Gap (EBG) structures for optimizing the
performances of single antenna elements and arrays is been
discussed. The key advantage of using this sort of super
structures is that they are planar and thus very cheap to
manufacture with respect to alternative EBG structures based on
vertical pins. In this contribution a review of the design
principles and of the antennas based on PCS EBG which have
been developed at TNO will be presented. Also a review of the
applications that effectively used the benefit associated with them
will be discussed. In conclusions, while EBG technology has been
promising marvels for phased array applications for quite some
time, its PCS implementation eventually turned out to be a one of
it most successful examples. In fact it delivered low cost, broad
band and efficient integrated antennas which could not have
been realized otherwise
Electromagnetic Band-Gap (EBG) structures for optimizing the
performances of single antenna elements and arrays is been
discussed. The key advantage of using this sort of super
structures is that they are planar and thus very cheap to
manufacture with respect to alternative EBG structures based on
vertical pins. In this contribution a review of the design
principles and of the antennas based on PCS EBG which have
been developed at TNO will be presented. Also a review of the
applications that effectively used the benefit associated with them
will be discussed. In conclusions, while EBG technology has been
promising marvels for phased array applications for quite some
time, its PCS implementation eventually turned out to be a one of
it most successful examples. In fact it delivered low cost, broad
band and efficient integrated antennas which could not have
been realized otherwise
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TNO Identifier
89809
Source title
Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 23 – 27 March 2009, Berlin, Germany
Pages
2842-2846
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