Global Synthesis Method for the Optimization of Multifeed EBG Antennas
Open Access
- 9 October 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in International Journal of Antennas and Propagation
- Vol. 2008, 1-6
- https://doi.org/10.1155/2008/790358
Abstract
This paper presents a novel technique for synthesizing a given radiation pattern from an EBG antenna with an array feed. The method determines the optimum sets of input waves and input impedances for the feed ports in order to perform simultaneously the radiation pattern and the impedance matching of all the radiating probes that form the array feed. The method is validated through a numerical design of an EBG antenna excited with four patch antennas. The structure is designed to radiate with a single lobe scanned at in the E-plane. The interactions between each patch inside the EBG resonator are characterized with the CST MWS software. The optimum weights and the input impedances which simultaneously perform the objective radiation and the matching of all feeding ports are calculated by the developed global synthesis method. The feed network is designed with the Agilent ADS software in order to perform the specified weights and the impedances matching.Keywords
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