Design of Multifunctional Antennas Integrated with Frequency Selective Surfaces
Microstrip antennas, Frequency Selective Surface, FSS, Ground plane trunking with carving.
This works aims to attribute the use of Frequency Selective Surfaces (FSS) togheter with plannar antenna arrays, proposing new geometrys that grant better results than the older ones, in terms of directivity, gain and bandwidth. In addition to that study it will also be made an study about the characteristics of the arrays of microstrip antennas, mutual coupling between the elements of the array, ground plane trunking with carving at the microstrip line fed, and its benefits for the for the radiation characteristics of the antenna. To accomplish that study, some results for microstrip antenna arrays with two elements, where the ground plane carving have been made, were reproduced. As soon as its effects were verified, the optimal parameters for the radiation characteristics of the antenna were selected and applied, so the new geometry of FSS could start beeing proposed on that antenna. That initial study have been made only with simulations using commercial softwares. In the following research work, it will be created at least one prototype of the best result simulation, so it can be tested and verified if it will be useful or not for the applications that it was inicially contructed for.