Microstrip antenna device.

摘要

An antenna device 10 comprises a dielectric sheet substrate 16 having an antenna patch 12 on one surface 14 and a ground plane 18 on the other surface 20. A hemispherical dielectric lens 22 is arranged over the antenna patch 12 in intimate contact with it The substrate 16 and the lens 22 are of low and high permittivity material respectively. The lens 22 couples the antenna patch radiation away from the substrate 16. This avoids the inefficiency arising from power trapping in the substrate of a prior art microstrip patch antenna. The antenna device 10 radiates into a comparatively narrow cone axially perpendicular to the antenna patch 12, and coupling of radiation from a power source to free space can theoretically be 100°. The antenna impedance is a function of its structural geometry, and is easily designed for impedance matching to a power source.