Search

A design of generating tilted beam radiation from microstrip antennas is described in this paper. The antenna has a coplanar annular patch, and it is excited by a top-loaded probe through gap coupling. When the antenna is operated at the TM02 mode of the ring patch, its radiation pattern can be changed from a uniform conical beam to a tilted beam by moving the feed point from the antenna center. The direction and directivity of the tilted beam are related to the feed position and the offset distance, respectively. Experimental results indicate that the directivity of the tilted beam is 2 dB higher than that of the original uniform conical beam, and they have good agreements with simulated results carried out with HFSS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The design of an equilateral triangular microstrip antenna embedded with dual V-shaped slots and two shorting walls is proposed and experimentally studied. By properly selecting suitable dimensions for this microstrip antenna, dual frequency operated at TM11 and TM21 modes, with frequency ratio ranging from 1.28 to 1.5 can be achieved with a single probe feed. The experimental procedures on achieving such operation with a maximum gain of around 11 dBi are presented and discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]