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Mudiganti Design of Antennas - XII

Design of Antennas – XI

ECE306 Antennas & Wave Propagation

Lecture - 34
 Inset Feed - Microstrip Antenna
 The two radiating slots of a microstrip antenna can be modelled
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as two parallel admittances Y1 & Y2

Y1 = G1+jB1 Y2 = G2+jB2

 Conductance of the radiating slots can be written as

 1  W 2 1
Rin  y  0 
   W  0 2G1  G12 
 90  0 
G1  G2  
 1  W  W   G12 is generally 10 times smaller
120  0  0 than G1
1   
 Inset Feed - Microstrip Antenna
 The conductance increases (resistance decreases) as the width of
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the strip is increased

 But a W/L ratio beyond 2 will reduce the antenna aperture efficiency,
2 therefore W cannot be increased beyond a certain value
 Inset Feed - Microstrip Antenna
 The input resistance for an inset fed patch is
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 
Rin  y  y0   Rin  y  0 cos  y0 
2

L 

y=0

y = y0

 Typical values of input resistance at the edge of patch y=0 will be

150 – 300 
3
 Inset Feed - Microstrip Antenna
 The strip width of the feed line W0 can be obtained by choosing
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appropriate characteristic impedance Zc, given as

 60  8h W0  W0
 ln    1
  reff W0 4h  h

Zc  
 120 W0
1
 W0  W0  h
  reff   1.393  0.667 ln  1.444 
  h  h 

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 Let Us Solve
Problems
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36. A microstrip antenna has an overall length of 0.906 cm, width

of 1.186 cm, substrate height of 0.1588 cm and dielectric
constant of 2.2 is operating at 10 GHz. Find
(a) Input impedance
(b) The position of inset feed point where the input impedance is 50

(c) What is the width of feed line