High zenithal directivity from a dipole antenna on a photonic crystal

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 68, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1300-1302

  Brown, E R ^a   McMahon, O B ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYZERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; GAIN MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVES; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

BRAGG SCATTERING; COPOLARIZED DIRECTIVITY; FACE CENTERED CUBIC STRUCTURE; FREE SPACE PATTERN; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; RADIATIVE GAIN; SPECULAR REFLECTION;

CRYSTALS;

EID: 0030086102     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.115959     Document Type: Article

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10. G. Rebeiz (private communication). Experimental transmission through nine layers (three repeat units) of fcc photonic crystal as measured by two feedhorns and a network analyzer between 10 and 20 GHz. Top view of (111)-oriented fcc photonic crystal with cylindrical air atoms lying in a triangular lattice. Also shown is the half-wave strip dipole with its driving point mounted over an air cylinder. (a) Experimental radiation intensity from free-space strip dipole having the dimensions shown in Fig. 2 and driven at 18 GHz. (b) Comparison of experimental and theoretical E-plane radiation pattern of strip dipole in free space. Experimental E- and H-plane radiation patterns from strip dipole mounted on the photonic crystal in the manner shown in Fig. 2.