Abstract
In this paper, a power amplifier (PA) integrated active antenna is presented. A new approach to antenna miniaturization is introduced through the direct integration and co-design with the amplifier. The detailed design procedure is presented and the concept is demonstrated with a rectangular patch antenna. The PA and the antenna are co-designed so that optimum performance is achieved. The antenna is miniaturized from its nature resonance frequency 2.95 GHz to 2.45GHz which is 31% size reduction. The bandwidth of the antenna is found to be 37MHz and its efficiency is more than 50% when operating between 2.43-2.467GHz. The gain and noise figure of the amplifier are optimized along with the antenna performance as an active integrated antenna (AIA) system and found to be around 8 and 2dB respectively across the operating band.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 2015 9th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2015 |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9788890701856 |
| State | Published - 27 Aug 2015 |
Publication series
| Name | 2015 9th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2015 |
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Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2015 EurAAP.
Keywords
- active integrated antennas
- antenna miniaturization
- patch antenna
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Instrumentation
- Radiation
- Computer Networks and Communications