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Tetsuo TSUGAWA Yoshihiko SUGIO Toshio MAKIMOTO
This letter describes the experimental study on the problems of gain enhancement for a radiating element between a finite ground plane and a finite dielectric plate. It is shown that, in the case of rectangular dielectric plate, this type antenna has 17 dBi antenna gain with 210% aperture efficiency if the dimensions of the rectangular parallelepiped dielectric are 1.375λ01.375λ0 the cross-sectional area parallel to the ground plane and 1.7λ0 thickness (λ0: free space wavelength).