A new approach to analyze a resistive patch antenna excited by a microstrip line and printed on an anisotropic substrate with superstrate

Abstract

An improved model is presented to study the effect of a superstrate on a resistive rectangular microstrip antenna fed by a microstrip line and printed on anisotropic substrate. A new accurate computation with different unknown currents of the electric field on overlap, feed line and resistive patch is studied by the Fourier transform, considering the Galerkin’s method and entire domain basis functions. Additionally, the scattering radar cross section (RCS) was studied for this novel resistive patch taking into account the effect of the nonzero surface resistance, the superstrate and the anisotropic substrate. To determine the unknown current modes on the patch, the electric field integral equation can be discretized into a matrix form that incorporates the effect of the superstrate, the anisotropic substrate and the currents on the feed line which are efficiently developed. Moreover, the necessary terms to represent the resistive patch are derived and are included in the equation in the form of a resistance matrix. RCS reduction is obtained for high superstrate thicknesses and low superstrate permittivities. Also, the addition of a resistance on the surface of the patch antenna provides a scattered energy diminution. Moreover, the RCS of this novel structure is affected by both $$\varepsilon _z $$ and $$\varepsilon _x $$ permittivities change, however, has drastically changed due to the $$\varepsilon _x $$ permittivity change. In order to validate the theoretical results, a study has been achieved for a perfectly conducting patch on isotropic substrate, without superstrate and excitation, and the results were compared well with other papers. This subject has not been treated or reported previously in the literature, and there has been very little work on the scattering RCS of only simple perfectly conducting patch antennas.