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Analysis of a Coplanar Parasitically Coupled Patch Antenna Using CMA and CMT

Borchardt, John J.

The impedance bandwidth of a microstrip patch antenna may be increased by additional resonances in the antenna structure. This work uses Characteristic Mode Analysis to show that a text-book coplanar parasitically coupled patch design is well described by Coupled Mode Theory. Comparisons to other multimode patch antennas also described by Coupled Mode Theory are made, and some intrinsic properties of the coplanar parasitically coupled patch geometry are noted.