Design of Cladded Dielectric Rod Antennas
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Saffold, Gabriel L.; Weller, Thomas M.
- Source
- 2019 IEEE 20th Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON) Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON), 2019 IEEE 20th. :1-4 Apr, 2019
- Subject
- Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Dielectrics
Surface waves
Rectangular waveguides
Antenna feeds
Gain
Dielectric Rod Antennas
- Language
A dielectric rod antenna is designed in Kuband using established principles for designing maximum gain surface wave antennas in free space as in [1]. The design principles are modified to their most general form and applied to the design of three dielectric rod antennas embedded in a dielectric cladding of different dielectric constant: ∊ r = 1.0 (free space ”cladding”), ∊ r = 1.6 (3D printed ABS with 50% in-fill), and ∊ r = 2.6 (3D printed ABS with 100% in-fill). The antennas are simulated and measured to determine agreement between them and thereby validate the design procedure.