Dielectric Phase-Correcting Structures for Electromagnetic Band Gap Resonator Antennas

A novel technique to design a phase-correcting structure (PCS) for an electromagnetic band gap (EBG) resonator antenna (ERA) is presented. The aperture field of a classical ERA has a significantly nonuniform phase distribution, which adversely affects its radiation characteristics. An all-dielectric PCS was designed to transform such a phase distribution to a nearly uniform phase distribution. A prototype designed using proposed technique was fabricated and tested to verify proposed methodology and to validate predicted results. A very good agreement between the predicted and the measured results is noted. Significant increase in antenna performance has been achieved due to this phase correction, including 9-dB improvement in antenna directivity (from 12.3 dBi to 21.6 dBi), lower side lobes, higher gain, and better aperture efficiency. The phase-corrected antenna has a 3-dB directivity bandwidth of 8%.

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