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AdbulGhaffar, FarhanAdvisors
Salama, Khaled N.
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Bagci, Hakan
Shamim, Atif

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2010-09Embargo End Date
2015-01-01Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/133211
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At the time of archiving, the student author of this thesis opted to temporarily restrict access to it. The full text of this thesis became available to the public after the expiration of the embargo on 2015-01-01.Abstract
The thesis presents a Sierpinski Carpet fractal antenna array designed at 24 GHz for automotive radar applications. Miniaturized, high performance and low cost antennas are required for this application. To meet these specifications a fractal array has been designed for the first time on Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic (LTCC) based substrate. LTCC provides a suitable platform for the development of these antennas due to its properties of vertical stack up and embedded passives. The complete antenna concept involves integration of this fractal antenna array with a Fresnel lens antenna providing a total gain of 15dB which is appropriate for medium range radar applications. The thesis also presents a comparison between the designed fractal antenna and a conventional patch antenna outlining the advantages of fractal antenna over the later one. The fractal antenna has a bandwidth of 1.8 GHz which is 7.5% of the centre frequency (24GHz) as compared to 1.9% of the conventional patch antenna. Furthermore the fractal design exhibits a size reduction of 53% as compared to the patch antenna. In the end a sensitivity analysis is carried out for the fractal antenna design depicting the robustness of the proposed design against the typical LTCC fabrication tolerances.Citation
AdbulGhaffar, F. (2010). Design of LTCC Based Fractal Antenna. KAUST Research Repository. https://doi.org/10.25781/KAUST-C1861ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.25781/KAUST-C1861