in this paper, a generalized method for accurate full-wave analysis of shielded mic's and the three-layer microstrip structure enclosed in a rectangular cavity based on mixed potential integral equation (mpie) derived in real space have been developed. method of moments (mom) with galerkin technique has been used for the solution of the integral equation to obtain the surface electric currents ...

3.1 INTRODUCTION This chapter explains the methods to improve the directivity, and bandwidth of microstrip antenna array, using EBG structures and the FSS as a superstrate layer. This chapter also details the concept, principles of operation and the geometries of the unit cell of various EBG structures used, along with the microstrip antenna array configuration. Using the Multiconductor Transmi...

A set of hybrid microstrip patch and semi-circular cavity antennas is introduced. The semi-circular cavity is implemented using Half-mode Substrate Integrated Waveguide (HMSIW) technique. Different shapes of patch include rectangular, semi-circular and equilateral triangular are excited using proximity effect by the circular SIW cavity at its TM010 mode of operation. The whole structures have b...

The effect of the substrate structure on the radiation properties of microstrip array feed networks is investigated with the space-domain integral equation approach. Numerical and analytical techniques are employed to produce efficient computer algorithms. Results for space and surface wave losses are presented for corner discontinuities printed on substratelsuperstrate, and two-layer substrate...

Differential evolution (DE) algorithm is applied to the design of single-layer and multi-layer microstrip antennas. For the design of single-layer co-axial probe-fed microstrip antenna, fitness function is obtained from cavity model theory of microstrip antenna, whereas for the design of multi-layer aperture-coupled microstrip antenna, transmission line model is used to obtain fitness function ...

A four-way power divider/power combiner using substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) and microstrip lines is proposed and investigated. The proposed power divider consists of a double-layer substrate with a bottom layer including an SIW T-junction and a top layer including a microstrip network. This microstrip network consists of a modified Gysel power divider which provides a high isolation betw...

Abstract—A microstrip 180◦ phase shifter obtained by a novel design of Microstrip-to-Coplanar Waveguide (CPW)-to-Microstrip transition is presented. The proposed phase shifter is obtained without changing the layer of the second microstrip line. Via holes are used to transfer the current from the top to the bottom substrate layer and vice versa. The presented phase shifter is operating in a wid...

The low cost, high efficiency, single-feed microstrip antenna with a two-layer substrate for circular polarization (CP) is presented. A new CP design of a singlefeed nearly square patch with two truncated square corners is also described here. The two-layer substrate consists of an FR4 dielectric layer and a foam layer. The effects of the foam substrate on the impedance bandwidth, axial ratio, ...

Rectangular microstrip structures are widely used in various microwave devices. Using the method of moments and principle of partial images, various techniques are developed to determine charge distribution in 2D models of microstrip structures (their cross-section). In this paper, a technique for calculating surface charge distribution and total capacitance of complex 3D rectangular microstrip...