Taiyun is selected as a recipient of the 2018 Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Award of the Georgia Tech Chapter! This is a highly prestigious institute-level award and is considered as the "Best Ph.D. Thesis Award" at Georgia Tech. Up-to 10 outstanding Ph.D theses will be selected annually among all the schools and departments at Geogia Tech. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 404-894-3360 Fax: 404-894-4641 Abstract A simple procedure for the design of compact stacked-patch antennas is presented based on LTCC multilayer packaging technology. The advantage of this topology is that only one parameter, i.e., the substrate thickness (or equivalently the Bending moment diagram for simply supported beam with point load