SOME EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS OF PRINTED ANTENNAS FOR THE BENCHMARKING OFSONNET EM ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATOR

Recently, a significant amount of research has concentrated on printed antennas and their applications using either commercial or in-house e lectromagnetic simulators to evaluate performance prior to constructio n. It has now become clear that such 2.5-D/3-D simulators play a uniqu e role in the development of precise microwave or millimeter-wave prin ted antennas. This article describes some of the experimental results and benchmarking of printed antennas designed using the Sonnet Softwar e em electromagnetic simulator. Discussions about em's accuracy and pr oblems and comparisons to other analytical methods are presented. (C) 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.