Design Techniques for Conformal Microstrip Antennas and Their Arrays

Owing to their electrical and mechanical attractive characteristics, conformal microstrip an‐ tennas and their arrays are suitable for installation in a wide variety of structures such as aircrafts, missiles, satellites, ships, vehicles, base stations, etc. Specifically, these radiators can become integrated with the structures where they are mounted on and, consequently, do not cause extra drag and are less visible to the human eye; moreover they are lowweight, easy to fabricate and can be integrated with microwave and millimetre-wave cir‐ cuits [1,2]. Nonetheless, there are few algorithms available in the literature to assist their design. The purpose of this chapter is to present accurate design techniques for conformal microstrip antennas and arrays composed of these radiators that can bring, among other things, significant reductions in design time.

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