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http://dx.doi.org/10.7840/kics.2015.40.12.2427

Gain Enhancement of a Circularly-Polarized Patch Antenna with a Double-Layered Superstrate for Wireless LAN  

Lee, Sangrok (Shinhan University Department of IT Convergence Engineering)
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences / v.40, no.12, 2015 , pp. 2427-2433 More about this Journal
Abstract
A high-gain circularly-polarized patch antenna with a double-layered superstrate is proposed operating at a wireless LAN frequency. A superstrate has an array of metallic periodic unit cells and is located above the patch antenna with an air-gap. The designed antenna has a high gain of over 9.59dBi, which is the gain enhancement of 6.48dB compared to the patch antenna without superstrate. And it has a low axial ratio of under 3dB, so that it maintains the circular polarization of the patch antenna. The optimum air-gap height at the superstrate of $4{\times}4$ arrays is 25mm, which is equivalent to about $0.2{\lambda}$ at the frequency of 2.45GHz. We confirmed that the double-layered stacking of a superstrate increases the effective aperture size and hence it leads to enhance a gain of the patch antenna.
Keywords
Gain enhancement; Double-layered superstrate; Patch antenna; Circular polarization; Wireless LAN;
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