Superconducting Cross Loaded Microstrip Antenna

Abstract

Metallic cross loaded patch has been studied for its radiation pattern in the present work. Theoretical design and characteristics are being reported for a Superconducting patch antenna.

Indexing terms:

• Superconducting antenna
• Microstrip patch antenna

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Notes on contributors

G P Srivastava

Ganesh Prasad Srivastava was born in 1933. He obtained doctoral degree in microwave pressure broadening studies in 1957 from University of Allahabad. He pursued future research with Nobel Laureate Prof G Herzberg in National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada from 1960 to 1962 where he made significant contribution to the field of Microwave spectroscopy. He was the first to observe rotational transition in hydrogen bounded molecules. He also worked at the University of Sheffield (UK), University of Queensland (Australia), and University Piere-et-Marie Curie (France). In India he worked at different Universities and in 1974 he became Professor of Physics and in 1980, the Head of the department and the Dean of the Faculty of Science, Delhi University.

In his research careers he has to his credit over 195 research publications in international journals spanning the fields of spectroscopy, semiconductor physics magnetism, quantum electronics and microwave superconductivity. He has contributed to many international conferences. As an academician, he played a key role in introducing electronics courses into regular science academic programs all over the country for undergraduate course on computer science. He was the first Head of the Department of Electronics Science and the first Dean of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary and Applied Sciences in University of Delhi. The microwave community has been benefited by him both as an active researcher and as an educator.

He has organised many national as well as international conferences. He is one of the persons who is instrumental in establishing the Asia Pacific Microwave Conferences. At present he is actively leading a group working in the fields of high temperature superconducting microwave electronics in Delhi University.

Malay Ranjan Tripathy

Malay Ranjan Tripathy, was born in Orissa in 1969. He received his MSc Physics degree with Electronics as a special subject from Utkal University, Orissa. He has registered in the Department of Electronic Science, University of Delhi for his PhD degree. Recently he has submitted his thesis to the Univ of Delhi for the award of his PhD degree. For his PhD thesis, he has prepared high temperature BSCCO superconducting materials by solid state reaction, sol-gel and spray drying techniques. Besides the general characterization of materials (i.e. XRD, SEM, RT, Jc and AC susceptibility), he has developed his experimental setup for microwave studies. He has studied for the microwave absorption, microwave surface resistance and non-resonant microwave absorption of these high temperature superconductors. Currently he is interested in design and studies of superconducting resonators, filters and antennas.

Recently he has visited Intermag '99, May 18–21, 1999, at Kyongju, Korea and received a IEEE Magnetic Society student paper award. He has also visited FIM '99 at Stockholm, Sweden, August 12–15, 1999, to present an invited paper.

S K Padhi

Shantanu K Padhi, received the BSc (Hon) and MSc degrees in Physics from Sambalpur University in 1986 and 1988 respectively. He is currently working towards PhD degree in Microwave Engineering from University of Delhi. He has been to the Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia as Visiting Research Scholar in July 1997. His fields of interest are computational electromagnetism and its application in the design and analysis of Microstrip patch antenna used in wireless and mobile communication, RF devices and circuits and its industrial applications.