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The radiation patterns of a dipole antenna on a photonic crystal substrate are measured and compared with dipole antennas on dielectric substrates. The layer-by-layer photonic crystal with a gap between 12 and 15 GHz is utilized. The angular distribution of radiated power is optimized by varying the position, orientation and driving frequency of the antenna. Virtually no radiated power is lost to the photonic crystal resulting in gains and radiation efficiencies larger than on other conventional dielectric substrates.
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Biswas, R. et al. (1996). Optimized Antennas on Photonic Band Gap Crystals. In: Soukoulis, C.M. (eds) Photonic Band Gap Materials. NATO ASI Series, vol 315. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1665-4_20
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