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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION, VOL. 51, NO. 7, JULY 2003 1443 Design of a New Dual-Frequency and Dual-Polarization Microstrip Element Reuven Shavit, Senior Member, IEEE, Yuval Tzur, and Danny Spirtus, Associate Member, IEEE Abstract—A new type of a dual-frequency and dual-linear-po- real challenge is to transfer the energy from layer to layer with larization multilayer stacked microstrip antenna element is pre- minimal losses. The obvious possibility for the energy transfer sented. The feeding mechanism of the element is aperture cou- among layers is to use vias (conductive pins). However, this pling for one polarization and direct feeding for the orthogonal polarization. The microstrip element exhibits a wide band of op- mechanism is lossy, has low isolation between adjacent ports, eration, high isolation between ports, and high radiation efficiency and adds complexity to the fabrication process. Accordingly, for both polarizations compared to other type of elements. A para- aperture or electromagnetic coupling among layers seems to metric study was conducted using a commercial software based on provide the correct solution. method of moments (MoM) algorithm and is presented. A pro- In this paper, we present a new dual-frequency and dual-po- totype with dimensions based on the simulations was built and tested. The agreement between the measured and numerical re- larization microstrip element. Two stacked parasitic patches are sults is good. used to independently control the frequency bandwidths of the