Curved Rectangular Patch Array Antenna Using Flexible Copper Sheet for Small Missile Application

Authors: Jessada Monthasuwan, Charinsak Saetiaw, Chanchai Thongsopa

Abstract:

This paper presents the development and design of the curved rectangular patch arrays antenna for small missile application. This design uses a 0.1mm flexible copper sheet on the front layer and back layer, and a 1.8mm PVC substrate on a middle layer. The study used a small missile model with 122mm diameter size with speed 1.1 Mach and frequency range on ISM 2.4 GHz. The design of curved antenna can be installation on a cylindrical object like a missile. So, our proposed antenna design will have a small size, lightweight, low cost and simple structure. The antenna was design and analysis by a simulation result from CST microwave studio and confirmed with a measurement result from a prototype antenna. The proposed antenna has a bandwidth covering the frequency range 2.35-2.48 GHz, the return loss below -10 dB and antenna gain 6.5 dB. The proposed antenna can be applied with a small guided missile effectively.

Keywords: Rectangular path arrays, small missile antenna.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1088992

References:

[1] G. A. El-Sheikh, "Performance investigation of a homing guided missile with positioning the seeker antenna,” Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Radio Science Conference, pp. C20 - 1-10, 2004.
[2] Cong Chen, Li Jiebo, Lin Zhang and Haitao Chen, "Research of the missile and aircraft base mounted antennas for data transmission,” International Conference on Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology, pp. 392 – 394, 2010.
[3] G. R. DeJean, T.T. Thai, S. Nikolaou and M.M. Tentzeris, "Design and Analysis of Microstrip Bi-Yagi and Quad-Yagi Antenna Arrays for WLAN Applications,” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 6, pp. 244 – 248, 2007.
[4] Lin Jinyong, Li Gang, Sun Shenghe, Zhu Wenbiao, Gao Xiaoying, "Modeling Investigation in Large Scale System of Autonomous Formation Flying,” Journal of System Simulation, Vol.19, No.16, pp. 3631-3633, August 2007.
[5] G. R. DeJean and M. M. Tentzeris, "A new high-gain microstrip Yagi array antenna with a high front-to-back (F/B) ratio for WLAN and millimeter-wave applications,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 55, pp.298–304, Feb. 2007.
[6] B. Yu, D. Wu and K. Seo, "Array of waveguide-fed microstrip antennas,” International Conference on Communication Systems, pp. 797 - 800, 2008.
[7] A. Sabban, "Applications of MM Wave Microstrip Antenna Arrays,” International Symposium on Systems and Electronics, pp. 119 – 122, 2007.
[8] "CST-Microwave Studio," ed, (2009).
[9] Kumar, G. and Ray, K.P., Broadband Microstrip Antennas, Artech House, Inc, 2003.
[10] Balanis, C.A., Advanced Engineering Electromagnetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1989
[11] Garg, R., Bhartia, P., Bahl, I., Ittipiboon, A., Microstrip Antenna Design Handbook, Artech House, Inc, 2001.