The C-shaped microstrip antenna is a compact variation of rectangular microstrip antenna and it has smaller bandwidth as compared to the rectangular patch. In this paper, bandwidth of C-shaped microstrip antenna is first increased by using proximity feeding technique. Further gap-coupled configuration of two C-shaped microstrip antennas on thicker substrate is proposed. It gives bandwidth of mo...

Microwave sensors are robust non-contact measurement devices for industrial and vehicular application. Phased array-antenna modules, located in the front-end of the sensor, are often used to enhance the performance of this device. In this paper, a novel 24-GHz microstrip linear array antenna with beam-scanning and signal-amplification properties are presented. The phase shift section is designe...

A reference tracking telescope consisting of three stations based on double-sided silicon microstrip detectors has been constructed and tested in a 2 GeV proton beam experiment at GSI. This proof-of-principle device designed for charged particle track measurement with high spatial resolution closely integrates silicon sensors with self-triggering front-end electronics. Each station features the...

Conventional microstrip antennas in general have a conducting patch printed on a grounded microwave substrate, and have the attractive features of low profile, light weight, easy fabrication, and conformability to mounting hosts [1]. However, mi-crostrip antennas inherently have a narrow bandwidth, and bandwidth enhancement is usually demanded for practical applications. In addition, applicatio...

This paper demonstrates that it is possible to find an ideal filter response (Chebyshev, Butterworth,..) considering the antenna as the last resonator of a filter under certain circumstances related with the antenna performance and the bandwidth of the filtenna device. If these circumstances are not accomplished, we can achieve excellent performance as well, by means of an iterative process the...

In modern wireless communication systems, small circularly polarized microstrip antennas with good performance are desirable mainly at low microwave frequencies. The radio frequency identification (RFID) systems in the ultra-high frequency (UHF) band have gained much interest in many services [Finkenzeller2004]. The reader antenna is one of the important components in the RFID reader system and...

A planar microstrip ring resonator structure on alumina was developed using the commercial FEM software COMSOL. Design parameters were evaluated, eventually leading to an optimized design of a miniaturized microwave gas sensor. The sensor was covered with a zeolite film. The device was successfully operated at around 8.5 GHz at room temperature as a humidity sensor. In the next step, an additio...

In this work, the application of numerical device simulation to the analysis of high resistivity silicon microstrip detectors is illustrated. The analysis of dc, ac and transient responses of a single-sided, dc-coupled detector has been carried out, providing results in good agreement with experimental data. In particular, transient-mode simulation has been exploited to investigate the collecti...

We present the results of measurements of the scattering parameters of microstrip amplifiers MSAs based on the dc superconducting quantum interference device. The amplifier input impedance is poorly matched to typical transmission line impedances, resulting in high input return loss around 2 dB. We show that negative feedback can lower the MSA input impedance to achieve a robust match to 50 . I...