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A corporate network-fed quasi-lumped resonator antenna array is presented. A new class of patch antennas comprising of an interdigital capacitor in parallel with a straight strip inductor is employed as radiators, whereas an optimized corporate feed network is designed to couple excitation power to the radiating elements. The proposed radiating elements rely on the long but folded capacitance occurring between the interdigit gap, thus ensuring the miniaturization of the passives. The feed network has also been optimized for compactness and power propagation efficiency with minimum transmission losses. An 8 × 1 and an 8 × 2 are prototyped and investigated using the finite integration technique numerical code. The resulting design is litographically etched on a Roger duroid microwave laminate and subsequently measured. Findings indicate that the resulting design is compact in terms of estate area occupancy and demonstrates reasonable radiation efficiency.
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Olokede, S.S., Paul, B.S. (2018). Design of a Quasi-Lumped Resonator Antenna Array Based on a Novel Optimized Corporate Network Feed. In: Bera, R., Sarkar, S., Chakraborty, S. (eds) Advances in Communication, Devices and Networking. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 462. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7901-6_33
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