Design of broadside, uniformly fed, planar aperture coupled microstrip patch arrays

Abstract

Abstrapt: The design of broadside, uniformly fed, planar aperture coupled microstrip patch &rays is addressed. Individual elements were designed using Mstrip40, a MOM microstrip analysis program. Designing, measuring and performing a FEM analysis on a 3 GHz element successfully validated the procedure. 4 and 16 element, 9 GHz arrays were designed.Pattern and S 1 1 measurements as well as theoretical patterns are presented.