| Abstract | 第1-4页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第4-5页 |
| Contents | 第5-9页 |
| List of Figures | 第9-13页 |
| List of Tables | 第13-14页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第14-20页 |
| ·Motivation | 第14-15页 |
| ·Review of Existing Methods for Analyzing Microstrip Antenna and Its Arrays | 第15-18页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第18-20页 |
| 2 Available Methods | 第20-28页 |
| ·2D Methods | 第20-25页 |
| ·Cavity Model(Modal Expansion Method) | 第21-23页 |
| ·Contour Integral (CI) method | 第23-25页 |
| ·Full wave 3D method (software IE3D | 第25-28页 |
| 3 Analysis and Design of Micrstrip Antenna Arrays | 第28-43页 |
| ·Introduction | 第28-29页 |
| ·General Considerations of Microstrip Antenna Array Design | 第29-33页 |
| ·Substrate Selection | 第29-30页 |
| ·Array Configuration and the Choice of Feed Network | 第30-32页 |
| ·Element Design | 第32-33页 |
| ·Loading Method and Performance Estimation | 第33-38页 |
| ·Computation of the Input Impedance by Loading Method | 第33-36页 |
| ·Antenna Gain and the Feed Network Losses | 第36-38页 |
| ·Impedance Matching of Microstip Antenna Arrays Using Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms | 第38-42页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第42-43页 |
| 4 Successive Approach Method to Analyze Irregularly Shaped Patch | 第43-61页 |
| ·Introduction | 第43-44页 |
| ·Irregularly Shaped Patch as Perturbation of Regularly Shaped Patch | 第44-48页 |
| ·Deletion of Magnetic Walls (Adding the Fringe Fields) | 第48-53页 |
| ·Cauchy's Interpolation | 第53-59页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第59-61页 |
| 5 Fringe Extensions of Patches from DC Capacitors | 第61-83页 |
| ·Introduction | 第61-62页 |
| ·Chow's Fuzzy Formulation for Microstrip Parallel Plate Capacitor | 第62-64页 |
| ·Fringe Field Extension Formula from DC to RF | 第64-68页 |
| ·Some Numerical Results | 第68-73页 |
| ·Discussions on the Resonant Frequency of a Patch Antenna | 第73-82页 |
| ·Available CAD Formulas for Microstrip Patch Antennas in Literatures | 第73-75页 |
| ·Definition of Resonant Frequency | 第75-77页 |
| ·Comparison of Resonant Frequency of Patch Antennas | 第77-82页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第82-83页 |
| 6 Mutual Coupling in Antenna Arrays | 第83-113页 |
| ·Introduction | 第83-84页 |
| ·Mutual Impedance Formula Based on Synthetic Asymptote and Variable Separation | 第84-99页 |
| ·Theory | 第85-88页 |
| ·Relationship Between Bailey's Formula and Ours | 第88-90页 |
| ·Numerical Results | 第90-99页 |
| ·Application of the Formula for Analyzing Finite Arrays | 第99-111页 |
| ·Element-by-Element Method to Analyze Finite Array of Microstrip Patches | 第99-101页 |
| ·Error Estimation on Using the Mutual Impedance Formula for a Finite Array | 第101-103页 |
| ·Results for Finite Arrays | 第103-111页 |
| ·Discussions | 第111-113页 |
| 7 Conclusion and Future Work | 第113-116页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第113-114页 |
| ·Future Work | 第114-116页 |
| Appendix A Omar's Method of Matching Interior and Exterior Fields | 第116-118页 |
| Appendix B Variational Formula for Adding Fringing Field | 第118-120页 |
| Bibliography | 第120-133页 |
| List of Publications | 第133-135页 |
| Journal Papers | 第133-134页 |
| Conference Papers | 第134-135页 |
| Projects Enlisted During the Course of Ph. D Study | 第135页 |
