Gyro-chirality effect of bianisotropic substrate on the operational of rectangular microstrip patch antenna

In this paper, the gyrotropic bi-anisotropy of the chiral medium in substrate constitutive parameters (&xgr;^c and &eegr;^c) of a rectangular microstrip patch antenna is introduced in order to observe its effects on the complex resonant frequency, half-power bandwidth and input impedance. Numerical calculations and analysis based on the dominant mode are carried out to show that the latter is directly related to the former. This paper is based on the Moment Method as full-wave spectral domain approach using sinusoidal basis functions. Two new results, namely the appearance of the difference (&xgr;^c-&eegr;^c) and sum (&xgr; ^c+&eegr;^c) of the two magneto-electric elements are obtained in the electric transverse components and Green tensor expressions, respectively. These new results can be considered as a generalisation form of the previously published work.