A single-layer partially reflective surface (PRS) structure is presented to design single-feed Fabry-Perot resonator antennas (FPRA) with a large gain bandwidth and compact size. The design of the PRS structure applied in this antenna is based on the theory of tightly coupled antenna arrays. Owing to strong mutual coupling between the overlapped patches, the proposed antenna obtains a wider bandwidth and more compact size. Experimental results show that the antenna obtains a 32% 3-dB gain bandwidth from 8.8 GHz to 12.2 GHz, with a peak gain of 13.5 dBi. Moreover, the relative impendence bandwidth is 40.9% for the voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) less than 2 from 8.45 GHz to 12.8 GHz.
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