The use of dual polarization in meteorological radars offers significant advantages over single polarization. Recently a standard single-polarization C-band radar was upgraded to operate in dualpolarization mode. The antenna has a 4.2m diameter parabolic reflector with a prime-focus feed. A spherical Fresnel-zone holographic technique was used to obtain the radiation pattern for the upgraded an...

Maximum power feed efficiency of MIMO antenna with intensive mutual coupling on handset is achieved not by match or conjugate match source impedance configuration, but by the source impedance that introduces small reflection between the sources and the antenna network to reduce the power transmitted from the one source and absorbed by other sources. A novel model for calculating the absorbed po...

In this paper, the modal theory of antennas is re-visited, believing that it brings invaluable information towards facilitating the design of multi-feed multi-band antennas. First, some subtle changes are proposed to enhance the applicability of the theory. Next, using some efficient computational techniques, the proposed formulations are shown to predict, to a very high accuracy, the input imp...

This paper is to demonstrate the potential and realizability of a high-performance waveguide slot antenna. A double-layer slotted waveguide array with a partially corporate feed circuit installed in the bottom layer is proposed and designed in 38GHz band to realize broadband characteristics. For the antenna realization, a diffusion bonding of laminated thin plates is introduced as the fabricati...

In this rapid changing world in wireless communication, dual or multiband antenna has been playing a key role for wireless service requirements. Wireless local area network (WLAN) and Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) have been widely applied in mobile devices such as handheld computers and smart phones. These two techniques have been widely considered as a cost-effective,...

This paper presents the theoretical investigation of a slotted patch antenna. The main objective of proposed work is to obtain a large bandwidth antenna with reduced size. The antenna has a compact size of 21.1mm x 20.25mm x 8.5mm. Two designs with minor variation are studied which provide wide impedance bandwidths of 24.056% and 25.63% respectively with the use of parasitic elements when excit...

In this paper comparison of Reflector Antenna analyzing techniques based on wave and ray nature of optics is presented for an offset reflector antenna using GRASP (General Reflector antenna Analysis Software Package) software. The results obtained using PO (Physical Optics), PTD (Physical theory of Diffraction), and GTD (Geometrical Theory of Diffraction) are compared. The validity of PO and GT...

─ A novel loop-loaded printed dipole (LLPD) with a wideband balun structure is presented for aiming a dual-band antenna operation at 3.0/5.5 GHz bands. The proposed balun structure alone demonstrates VSWR<1.5 performance over a 3:1 bandwidth. As the loop elements placed on the antenna aperture provides dual-band operation with at least 15% impedance bandwidths, the wideband balun/feed allows fo...

This paper covers two aspects of Microstrip antenna designs. The first is the analysis and design of single element rectangular Microstrip antenna which operates at the centre frequency of 2. 4 GHz. The second aspect is the design of dual band rectangular microstrip antenna which operates at 2. 4 GHz and 3. 6 GHz used in 802. 11b/g/n and 802. 11y WLAN channels respectively. Both antennas are mo...

This article proposes, single feed compact slotted patch antenna. It can be seen that bandwidth of Microstrip antenna is increased up to great extant by cutting two equal slots which are same as π structure added with rectangular slots. In some applications in which the increased bandwidth is needed, designed antenna is one of the alternative solutions. The proposed antenna operates in frequenc...