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Reduced Surface Wave Microstrip Antennas

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Reduced surface wave (RSW) microstrip antennas are a class of microstrip antennas that excite much less surface wave fields than do conventional microstrip antennas. Furthermore, they have a greatly reduced amount of lateral (horizontal) radiation that propagates outward from the antenna along the ground plane. This results in less edge diffraction from the edges of the ground plane or supporting structure, which in turn results in smoother front-side patterns and less back radiation. The RSW antennas also exhibit less mutual coupling when the antennas are widely spaced, due to the reduced surface wave field and lateral radiation. This chapter reviews RSW antenna design and the different methods for realizing such antennas, and illustrates their main performance features.

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  1. Department of ECE, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, N 308 Engineering Building 1, Houston, TX, 77204-4005, USA

    David R. Jackson

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Zhi Ning Chen

  2. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA

    Duixian Liu

  3. Faculty of Science and Engineering, Hosei University, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan

    Hisamatsu Nakano

  4. Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, Singapore

    Xianming Qing

  5. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

    Thomas Zwick

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Jackson, D.R. (2016). Reduced Surface Wave Microstrip Antennas. In: Chen, Z., Liu, D., Nakano, H., Qing, X., Zwick, T. (eds) Handbook of Antenna Technologies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4560-44-3_50

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