%0 Journal Article
%T A Quasi-Yagi Antenna Backed by a Jerusalem Cross Frequency Selective Surface
%A Sergio E. Melais
%A David Cure
%A Thomas M. Weller
%J International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology
%D 2013
%I Hindawi Publishing Corporation
%R 10.1155/2013/354789
%X A quasi-Yagi antenna is developed to operate at 2.4£¿GHz (ISM band) presenting a low profile and off-axis radiation when packaged over a metal ground plane. The off-axis radiation is realized by incorporating a Jerusalem cross frequency selective surface (JC-FSS) as the ground plane for the antenna. A JC-FSS is preferred because of its frequency stability in the operating band for a large angular spectrum (¡Ö70¡ã) of TE- and TM-polarized incident waves. In this research, the substrate of the antenna flush-mounted on top of the FSS is added to the JC-FSS model and allows for a smaller cell grid. The prepared quasi-Yagi antenna over the JC-FSS offered 260£¿MHz of functional bandwidth and 54¡ã of beam tilt towards the end-fire direction. To the best of the authors¡¯ knowledge this is the first instance that these two structures are combined for off-axis radiation. Additionally, to support the preferred use of the JC-FSS, the quasi-Yagi is backed by a square patch (SP) FSS for comparison purposes. 1. Introduction The work presented in this paper introduces a quasi-Yagi antenna over a metal reflector with off-axis radiation at 2.4£¿GHz (ISM band). The main application of interest for this antenna is on sensor nodes comprising a wireless sensor network inside a multipath rich environment such as an aircraft fuselage. In practice these antennas would be mounted atop the metal package of a sensor node and used to communicate preferentially toward the front or rear of the aircraft. The packaging of the antenna over a metal ground plane presents a challenge, however, as this configuration results in undesired phase reflections ( ) and image currents from the ground canceling the current of the antenna, degrading its operational bandwidth, and tilting the beam away from the end-fire direction. A previous solution was proposed in [1] which consisted of displacing the metal reflector from the antenna by a suitable distance ( £¿mm). Though off-axis radiation of 40¡ã was achieved, the arrangement resulted in an inherently high profile. The configuration proposed herein introduces a new alternative to [1] as it packages the quasi-Yagi antenna over a high impedance surface (HIS) or electromagnetic band-gap (EBG) structure. The HIS eliminates the out-of-phase reflections generated at the ground from radiating to the antenna and supports the radiation of leaky TE waves in the frequency region of high impedance. The preferred HIS configuration used here is the Jerusalem cross frequency selective surface (JC-FSS) from [2], because of its compact size, numerous parameters for tuning,
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