A Wideband High-Efficiency Compact Fabry–Pérot Resonant Antenna With Multilayer Partially Reflective Surface

Abstract

A new method for the design of multilayer printed partially reflective surface (PRS) is proposed to achieve broadband, high efficiency, and miniaturization of Fabry–Pérot resonant antenna (FPRA). In this letter, every two-layer structure is regarded as a resonator to obtain a narrowband positive reflection phase gradient and then cascaded to obtain a broadband. Finally, a three-layer PRS is designed and integrated to form a C-band compact FPRA with overall dimensions of 0.65 <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">λ</i> <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">0</sub> ×0.65 <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">λ</i> <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">0</sub> ×0.52 <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">λ</i> <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">0</sub> ( <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">λ</i> <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">0</sub> is the free-space wavelength at the center frequency). The antenna was simulated, fabricated, and validated. The results show it has a high aperture efficiency due to the small aperture and a wide impedance bandwidth well covering 4.0–9.57 GHz.