Development of high aperture efficiency fabry-perot cavity antenna system

Aditya Dave, Rhonda Franklin

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Abstract

A Fabry-Perot cavity antenna (FPCA) system with high efficiency is proposed. The design consists of a source antenna with a frequency selective surface (FSS). The source antenna is an aperture coupled microstrip slot antenna with cavity backing. The FSS is a square aperture with rectangular unit cells. The E-field in the near and far field is compared for the FPCA system and the source antenna without the FSS (i.e. source antenna only). The FPCA has low phase variation of approximately 10° in the E-plane compared to high sinusoidal phase variation of 90° of the source antenna. The far-field gain of the FPCA system is 11.3 dB, which is a 4.5 dB improvement of the source antenna gain. The aperture efficiency of the FPCA system is 84% compared to the source antenna efficiency of 30%.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2019 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, APSURSI 2019 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages715-716
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781728106922
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2019
Event2019 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, APSURSI 2019 - Atlanta, United States
Duration: Jul 7 2019Jul 12 2019

Publication series

Name2019 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, APSURSI 2019 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference2019 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, APSURSI 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAtlanta
Period7/7/197/12/19

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
National Science Foundation Grant #1509543 was used to support part of the work.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.

Keywords

  • Fabry-Perot Cavities (FPC)
  • Frequency selective surface (FSS)
  • Near-field
  • Phase measurement

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