Challenges and Issues in the Design of Micro-Machined Antennas - A Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashish Kumar ◽  
Amar Partap Singh Pharwaha
Keyword(s):  
Patch Antenna ◽  
Ground Plane ◽  
Substrate Material ◽  
Review Article ◽  
High Index ◽  
Performance Characteristics ◽  
Machining Process ◽  
Patch Antennas ◽  
Micro Machining ◽  
The Impact

Background: Patch antennas are composed of the substrate material with patch and ground plane on the both sides of the substrate. The dimensions and performance characteristics of the antenna are highly influenced by the choice of the appropriate substrate depending upon the value of their dielectric constant. Generally, low index substrate materials are used to design the patch antenna but there are also some of the applications, which require the implementation of patch antenna design on high index substrate like silicon and gallium arsenide. Objective: The objective of this article is to review the design of antennas developed on high index substrate and the problems associated with the use of these materials as substrate. Also, main challenges and solutions have been discussed to improve the performance characteristics while using the high index substrates. Method: The review article has divided into various sections including the solution of the problems associated with the high index substrates in the form of micro-machining process. Along with this, types of micro machining and their applications have discussed in detail. Results: This review article investigates the various patch antennas designed with micro-machining technology and also discusses the impact of micro-machining process on the performance parameters of the patch antennas designed on high index substrates. Conclusion: By using the micro-machining process, the performance of patch antenna improves drastically but fabrication and tolerances at such minute structures is very tedious task for the antenna designers.

scholarly journals Performance Comparison of Swastika and Rectangular Shaped Microstrip Patch Antenna

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-14
Author(s):  
Suroj Burlakoti ◽  
Prakash Rai
Keyword(s):  
Radiation Pattern ◽  
Patch Antenna ◽  
Return Loss ◽  
Ground Plane ◽  
Performance Comparison ◽  
Microstrip Patch Antenna ◽  
Simulation Software ◽  
Patch Antennas ◽  
Microstrip Patch Antennas ◽  
Microstrip Patch

In this paper, Microstrip patch antennas with rectangular and swastika shape of patch are designed and its performance parameters are compared with each other. Rectangular and Swastika shaped patch are considered in this paper with common rectangular ground plane. The antenna is simulated at 2.4 GHz using HFSS simulation software. This work mainly includes modification of antenna patch to improve the antenna parameters. The parameters of antenna such as Return loss, VSWR Bandwidth and radiation pattern are compared using simulation. The performance of Swastika shaped antenna was found to be better than rectangular shaped microstrip patch antenna with improved Return Loss, VSWR, Bandwidth and Radiation Pattern.

scholarly journals Design and Optimization of Micro-Machined Sierpinski Carpet Fractal Antenna Using Ant Lion Optimization

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 306-318
Author(s):  
Ashish Kumar ◽  
Amar Partap Singh Pharwaha
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Circuits ◽  
Patch Antenna ◽  
Machining Process ◽  
Micro Machining ◽  
Microwave Integrated Circuits ◽  
Sierpinski Carpet ◽  
Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits ◽  
Ant Lion Optimization ◽  
Ant Lion ◽  
Sierpiński Carpet

This study investigates the optimized Sierpinski carpet fractal patch antenna and also explores the possibility of the integration of the proposed design with monolithic microwave integrated circuits. The optimization process has been performed using an ant lion optimization algorithm to achieve the required operating frequency and impedance matching. Further, due to surface waves excitation in the high index substrates used for the antenna design, the performance of the antenna degrades. Therefore, a process of micro-machining has been adopted to overcome this limitation. The micro-machining process creates an air cavity underneath the patch which further creates the low index environment in the patch antenna causing drastic improvement in the performance parameters along with the compatibility with monolithic microwave integrated circuits. The design shows multiple resonance frequencies in X-band and Ku-band. The proposed micro-machined design shows the resonance at 7.9 GHz, 9.6 GHz, 13.6 GHz, and 19 GHz with a maximum gain of 6 dBi. 

scholarly journals Ground Plane Metamaterial Inspired Patch Antenna For L-Band Applications

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S11) ◽  
pp. 1093-1095
Keyword(s):  
Mass Production ◽  
Patch Antenna ◽  
Ground Plane ◽  
Cellular Phone ◽  
Phone Call ◽  
Patch Antennas ◽  
L Band ◽  
Small Charge

The patch antennas are very popular and useful antennas for small charge and solid design for RF uses and WiFi systems. In Wi-Fi cellular phone call and satellite uses, patch antennas has magnetized a lot interest because of less dimension, cheap on mass production, less burden, short profile and simple incorporation with other parts. In this paper a new design of metamaterial technique is proposed with the patch antenna to modify its parameters. Antenna was designed at 1.9GHz and analyzed later to enhance its parameters and mainly bandwidth and Gain of the antenna, metamaterial was implemented. The coupling of patch and ground along with the metamaterial implementation on the ground plane made the bandwidth and Gain enhanced.

A Miniaturized High-Gain (MHG) Ultra-Wideband Unidirectional Monopole Antenna for UWB Applications

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (13) ◽  
pp. 1950230 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Vijayalakshmi ◽  
G. Murugesan
Keyword(s):  
Patch Antenna ◽  
Ground Plane ◽  
High Gain ◽  
Substrate Material ◽  
Monopole Antenna ◽  
Ultra Wideband ◽  
Defected Ground Structure ◽  
Compact Antenna ◽  
Overlay Design ◽  
Uwb Applications

A miniaturized high-gain (MHG) ultra-wideband (UWB) unidirectional monopole antenna with defected ground structure (DGS) is designed for ultra-wideband applications. The MHG antenna is printed on the FR4 substrate material with an overall size of 26.6-mm [Formula: see text] 29.3-mm [Formula: see text] 1.6-mm, which operates over the UWB frequency range and achieves the bandwidth between 3.1[Formula: see text]GHz and 10.6[Formula: see text]GHz. This high-gain unidirectional antenna exhibits a peak gain of 7.20[Formula: see text]dB with an efficiency of 95%. The compact antenna is a simple overlay design of circular and rectangular patches with the partial ground plane exhibiting high gain and better directivity. The overlay patch antenna acts as the radiator for wider bandwidth compared to the fundamental design of patch antenna and is matched to an SMA connector via 50[Formula: see text][Formula: see text] microstrip feed line. These simulated results are presented using HFSS software package. The designed antennas are fabricated and validated by using Agilent Vector Analyzer.

scholarly journals Compact Dual-Band Antenna with Paired L-Shape Slots for On- and Off-Body Wireless Communication

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (23) ◽  
pp. 7953
Author(s):  
Sarosh Ahmad ◽  
Adnan Ghaffar ◽  
Niamat Hussain ◽  
Nam Kim
Keyword(s):  
Frequency Band ◽  
Patch Antenna ◽  
Specific Absorption Rate ◽  
Ground Plane ◽  
Dual Band ◽  
Physical Layers ◽  
Dual Band Antenna ◽  
Lower Frequency Band ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact

A simple dual-band patch antenna with paired L-shap slots for on- and off-body communications has been presented in this article. The proposed antenna resonates in the industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band at two different frequencies, at 2.45 GHz and 5.8 GHz. At the lower frequency band, the antenna’s radiation pattern is broadsided directional, whereas it is omni-directional at the higher frequency band. The efficiency and performance of the proposed antenna under the influence of the physical body are improved, and the specific absorption rate (SAR) value is significantly reduced by creating a full ground plane behind the substrate. The substrate’s material is FR-4, the thickness of which is 1.6 mm and it has a loss tangent of tanδ = 0.02. The overall size of the proposed design is 40 mm × 30 mm × 1.6 mm. Physical phantoms, such as skin, fat and muscle, are used to evaluate the impact of physical layers at 2.45 GHz and 5.8 GHz. The SAR values are assessed and found to be 0.19 W/kg and 1.18 W/kg at 2.45 GHz and 5.8 GHz, respectively, over 1 gram of mass tissue. The acquired results indicate that this antenna can be used for future on- and off-body communications and wireless services.

scholarly journals Performance Enhancement Techniques for Patch Antennas of Small Satellites

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zizung Yoon ◽  
Mayank Mayank ◽  
Enrico Stoll
Keyword(s):  
Antenna Arrays ◽  
Patch Antenna ◽  
Power Flow ◽  
Performance Enhancement ◽  
Ground Plane ◽  
High Gain ◽  
Patch Antennas ◽  
Small Satellite ◽  
Rectangular Patch ◽  
Satellite Missions

Patch antennas are compact, less complex, planar structures and therefore, widely used in small satellite missions for telecommand, data link, and intersatellite link, particularly in S- band and X- band. Improved performance of these patch antennas in terms of gain and compactness will di-rectly affect the communication efficiency of small satellite missions. Especially the coming IoT (Internet of Things) constellations require high gain and efficient antenna arrays. An optimization of single patch antenna elements is an important cornerstone for the missions. Therefore, the ef-fects of various antenna enhancement techniques, such as slotted ground plane, resistor and ca-pacitor integration, parasitic patch elements, are analyzed. These techniques were applied on a rectangular patch antenna with parameter variation to identify the optimal performances with respect to bandwidth, operating frequency, gain, polarization, and power flow. Finally, the techniques were combined to obtain an optimized antenna in terms of gain and compactness. The results were compared to a slotted reference antenna. For the scenario of a 2.4 GHz patch antenna, a gain optimization of 27 % (from 7.09 to 8.14 dBi) or size reduction of 52 % (from 96.04 to 46.2 cm²) could be achieved. Overall, our study revealed an effective way to increase the patch antenna performance, which can directly contribute to more efficient communication links and design of antenna arrays.

scholarly journals CPWG Fed with Octagonal Patch Antenna

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (VI) ◽  
pp. 2086-2094
Author(s):  
Dr. K. RameshBabu
Keyword(s):  
Patch Antenna ◽  
Wireless Local Area Network ◽  
Local Area Network ◽  
Dielectric Material ◽  
Ground Plane ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Radiation Efficiency ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Patch Antennas

A Co planner Wave Guide (CPWG) fed with octagonal patch antenna is modified from their respective rectangular patch are presented for WLAN application. The dielectric material applied in the design process for both co planar and micro strip patch antenna is FR4 Epoxy Glass, which has relative permittivity of 4.4 and substrate height 1.6mm. Antenna parameters used to check the performance. A comparison is made between the octagonal co-planar antenna and octagonal micro strip antenna available. Ansys HFSS is used for antenna design and analysis. Both designed antennas are suitable for wireless local area network application and the design parameters of the antenna are optimized to resonate at 3GHz frequencies for WLAN applications. It has been found that octagonal micro strip patch antennas have lower return loss and are more directive than co planar patch antenna. High directivity of octagonal micro strip antenna is due to the presence of ground plane under the substrate of antenna. The results obtained by simulations have also shown that octagonal co planar patch antennas have high radiation efficiency (a measure of the power radiated through the antenna as an electromagnetic wave to the power fed to the antenna terminals) and which implies a wider bandwidth as compared to an octagonal micro strip patch antennas. The radiation efficiency obtained for micro strip patch antenna is 24% and that for co planar patch antenna is 67%, the directivity for micro strip patch antenna is 3.75 dB and that for a co-planar patch antenna is 3.25 dB.

scholarly journals Low-Profile Array of Wire Patch Antennas

2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Zhang ◽  
R. Chantalat ◽  
F. Torres ◽  
M. Thevenot ◽  
T. Monediere ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Radiation Pattern ◽  
Patch Antenna ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Ground Plane ◽  
Unit Cell ◽  
Power Divider ◽  
Patch Antennas ◽  
Edge Diffraction ◽  
Low Profile

A low-profile antenna over a ground plane that radiates a directive lobe in the end fire direction is described in this paper. An array of 16 wire patch antenna (WPA) fed by an integrated 16 ways power divider has been designed. Owing to its low height, low cost, high robustness, and monopolar radiation pattern, the WPA has been chosen as unit cell of the array that must be placed on the vehicle roof. A gain higher than 18.9 dB was achieved in the end fire direction over a 4.5% bandwidth. However, the antenna has been tilted in order to compensate the beam deviation caused by the edge diffraction. Moreover, a vertical metallic plane has been inserted to eliminate the back fire radiation. Its position and the disposition of the WPAs are explained in this paper. A prototype with four elements has been manufactured in order to validate the antenna principle. A gain difference lower than 0.5 dB is achieved between the measurements and the simulations.

scholarly journals Design, Simulation and Experimental Analysis of Square Microstrip Patch Antenna with Superstrates at 2.4GHz

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1297-1300
Keyword(s):  
Patch Antenna ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Satellite Communications ◽  
Dielectric Substrate ◽  
Substrate Material ◽  
Microstrip Patch Antenna ◽  
Performance Characteristics ◽  
Center Frequency ◽  
Microstrip Patch ◽  
Proposed Model

Microstrip antenna is used in wide area of applications such as high speed vehicles, missiles, tanks and satellite communications. In these applications dielectric superstrate (or cover) is used above the square patch antenna for providing the protections from severe environmental conditions such as rain, snow, heat, and damage etc. The proposed square microstrip patch antenna is designed using coaxial probe feed technique and transmission line model and operated at center frequency of 2.40 GHz, which is lying in the S-band region. The proposed model is used in linear polarization applications. The square patch is fabricated on low loss dielectric substrate material having dielectric constant is 2.2 and loss tangent of the substrate material is 0.0009. Ansoft electromagnetic simulator software such as HFSS is used for simulating proposed model and studied the effect cover or superstrate on different parameters of square patch antenna. This paper mainly focuses on the performance of square patch antenna without superstrate, and with superstrate at different height of dielectric superstrate above the patch antenna. The result found of patch antenna without superstrate the bandwidth is 0.04GHz and gain is obtained 8.9 dB and 7.51 dB in azimuth and elevation respectively. The result observed of patch antenna with dielectric cover (or superstrate) at height H =0, the antenna performance characteristics are slightly degraded and also comparing the antenna with the bandwidth is decreased to 0.02GHz from 0.04 GHz and gain is decreases to 6.44 dB and 6.6 dB from 8.9 dB and 7.51 dB in both azimuth and elevation plane respectively. The decreased performance characteristics of antenna will be improved by varying height of the superstrate above the patch antenna.. At particular optimum height, the performance characteristics patch antenna will be almost same as the patch antenna without superstrates. The obtained simulated results good match with measurement results.

scholarly journals Design of Quad feed end-fire microstrip patch antenna for Airborne Systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 2062 (1) ◽  
pp. 012003
Author(s):  
V Gnanalakshmi ◽  
Rahul Raaj ◽  
V Suresh Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Patch Antenna ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Aerodynamic Drag ◽  
Ground Plane ◽  
Substrate Material ◽  
Microstrip Patch Antenna ◽  
Microwave Frequencies ◽  
Microstrip Patch ◽  
Low Profile ◽  
Collision Avoidance System

Abstract To design a quad feed end-fire microstrip patch antenna for airborne systems. Basically these type of antennas are most helpful for avoiding mid-air collisions between aircraft. The microstrip patch antenna is very small in size and it is less in weight. Due to small size and less weight, it offers an easy design and fabrication process. The microstrip patch antenna has radiating patch on one side and ground on the other side. They operate at microwave frequencies. The low profile structure of microstrip antenna offers its wide use in wireless communication. They are used as communication antenna on missiles. Traffic alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) is an airborne system which is utilized to provide the service as last defense equipment for avoiding mid-air collisions between the aircraft. 1.03 GHz and 1.09 GHz are the transmitting and receiving frequencies of the existing TCAS antenna respectively. In airborne systems, low aerodynamic drag is required. FR4 epoxy is chosen as the substrate material whose dielectric constant is 4.4. 1.06GHz is chosen as the design frequency, since it is centre frequency between 1.03GHz and 1.09GHz. Microstrip patch antenna always radiates in the broadside direction which is along elevation plane. Due to metallic cap, microstrip patch antenna can also radiate in the end fire radiation which is along the azimuth plane. The ground plane must have very large dimensions than the patch. This microstrip patch antenna working at UHF (Ultra High Frequency) band is designed and their parameters like gain, directivity, return loss, VSWR (Voltage Standing Wave Ratio) and radiation pattern have been analyzed and simulated using ANSYS HFSS (High Frequency Structure Stimulator).

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