Termination of A Half-Width Leaky-Wave Antenna (Preprint)

Abstract

Leaky-wave antennas offer the potential for a wide operational bandwidth from a very thin antenna. Recently, a leaky-wave antenna that is half the usual width of a planar microstrip leaky-wave antenna was proposed. One of the major advantages of this design is that it requires only a single, rather simple, feed mechanism. To maintain the full potential bandwidth of that antenna, an appropriate termination is required. In this paper, a termination scheme is proposed and validated using a finite element-boundary integral model. In addition, a dual half-width antenna is shown to allow greater flexibility as compared to traditional microstrip leaky-wave antennas.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA462011

Entities

People

  • Daniel Killips
  • Leo Kempel
  • Michael Corwin
  • Stephen Schneider

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Attenuation
  • Bandwidth
  • Boundaries
  • Frequency
  • Impedance
  • Integrals
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Military Research
  • Radiation
  • Radiation Patterns
  • Standing Waves
  • Transmission Lines
  • Traveling Waves
  • Waves

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering
  • Mathematics or Statistics

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems