Investigation Of Patch Antenna Research Articles

Investigation of a nanostrip patch antenna in optical frequencies

This is the first report and investigation of a patch antenna in optical frequency range. Variety of plasmonic nanoantenna reported so far is good at enhancing the local field intensity of light by orders of magnitude. However, their far-field radiation efficiency is very poor. The proposed patch antenna emits a directional beam with high efficacy in addition to enhancing the intensity of near field. The nano-patch antenna (NPA) consists of a square patch of gold film of dimension 480 nm2, placed on a substrate of dielectric constant $$ \varepsilon_{\text{r}} $$ = 3.9 and thickness 150 nm with a ground plane of gold film of dimension 1,080 nm2. The NPA resonates at 210 THz and has gain nearly 2 dB and radiation efficiency 45.18 %. The NPA might be useful in variety of applications such as optical communication, nano-photonics, biosensing, and spectroscopy.

Investigation of Patch Antennas Based on Embedded Multiple PBG Structure

The method of finite-difference time domain was used, and characteristics of the patch antenna based on drilling air holes and embedding a metal boundary in the substrate were studied. The results indicate that the surface waves which propagate along the surface of the substrate can be suppressed by the multiple photonic band-gap structure because of its effect of forbidden band, that it can radiate most of electromagnetic waves' energy in the substrate significantly, and that it has lower return loss (Sll) compared to the conventional patch antennas. Thus, a high gain is attained, its performance is improved. Due to these advantages, the extending use of photonic crystal patch antennas in the areas of mobile communication, satellite communication, aviation, etc., is expected.