Design of defected ground structures for harmonic control of active microstrip antenna

Abstract

Photonic bandgap (PBG) structures are usually periodic structures in which propagation of a certain band of frequencies is prohibited. PBG structures for microwave frequencies are applied in planar circuits such as microstrip line and CPW (coplanar waveguide). In this case, they are more frequently termed defected ground structures (DGS). Most of the research performed on DGS has been based on the equivalent circuit consisting of lumped elements, L and C, extracted from EM simulations (see D. Ahn et al., IEEE MTT, vol.49, 2001). In addition, we also consider radiation effects by including resistance, R, in the equivalent circuit. The general 1D periodic structures with N unit cells are analyzed using an ABCD matrix formulation. The effects of the RLC elements of the unit cell, the spacing between the unit cells, and the cell number, N, are investigated in detail. For a design example, a simple 1D DGS with N=2 is designed for harmonic control through a modeling using transmission line theory. This 1D DGS with N=2 is much simpler than the one proposed by Y. Horii and M. Tsutsmi (see IEEE MGWL, vol.9, no.1. p.1895-8, 1999). The proposed approach enables us to design the required DGS quite easily and quickly.