Design and Comparative Analysis of Rectangular Slot Microstrip Patch Antennas for X-band Applications

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Pushpinder Singh ◽  
Gaurav Monga
Keyword(s):  
Microstrip Antenna ◽  
Ground Plane ◽  
Surface Current ◽  
Microstrip Antennas ◽  
Patch Antennas ◽  
Polar Plot ◽  
Rectangular Slot ◽  
Compact Antenna ◽  
Microstrip Patch ◽  
X Band

Microstrip patch antenna is a compact antenna which suffers the limitations of poor gain and reduction in radiation pattern. To reduce the resonance frequency of microstrip antenna increases the length of surface current with help of cutting slots in the patch. In this paper, a comparison of four Microstrip antennas with unequal length of rectangular slots is proposed. The microstrip antennas having rectangular shaped ground plane and FR4-epoxy substrate with relative permittivity 4.4, relative permeability 1 and dielectric loss tangent 0.02 with an overall size of 100×100×5 mm3. The performance of antennas is compared with slots in the patch and the effects of rectangular slots using operating frequency of 8 to 12 GHz are presented. The design simulate and analyze on FEM based HFSSv11 and this helps to compute VSWR, return loss,  gain, radiation efficiency and 3D polar plot of the proposed microstrip antenna. The proposed configuration gives broadside gain of more than 8 dBi and VSWR (>2) over entire range in simulated results.

scholarly journals Design And Development of Inset Feed Microstrip Patch Antennas using Various Substrates

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 163-167
Keyword(s):  
Microstrip Antenna ◽  
Return Loss ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Substrate Material ◽  
Patch Antennas ◽  
Microstrip Patch Antennas ◽  
Microstrip Patch ◽  
X Band ◽  
Materials Used ◽  
Rectangular Microstrip Antenna

Selecting an appropriate substrate material for the design of microstrip patch antenna for various applications is a very important step in antenna design. This paper presents a work of various substrates materials used for the design of low cost inset feed rectangular microstrip antenna for WLAN, WiMax, LTE, C-band and X-band applications. The substrates used are FR-4 epoxy, foam, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). The antennas were designed, optimized and simulated using HFSS 15.0. Return loss, voltage standing wave ratio and gain analysis is carried out for these antennas. The measurement of reflection coefficient of the fabricated antennas is done using Agilent PNA-L series vector network analyzer. The simulated and measured results are well in agreement. The analysis show that antenna with foam substrate offers the lowest return loss of - 41.28 dB. Larger bandwidth and gain of 4.38 dB is observed with PET substrate.

scholarly journals Mutual Coupling Reduction between Patch Antennas Using Meander Line

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qian Li ◽  
Chong Ding ◽  
Ruichao Yang ◽  
Mingtao Tan ◽  
Gangxiong Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Antenna Array ◽  
Microstrip Antenna ◽  
Mutual Coupling ◽  
Ground Plane ◽  
Patch Antennas ◽  
Radiation Patterns ◽  
Simple Method ◽  
Microstrip Patch ◽  
Microstrip Antenna Array ◽  
Meander Line

Meander lines (MLs) in two configurations are presented to reduce the mutual coupling (MC) between two microstrip patch antenna elements. Inserting a slot in the ground plane between the antenna elements is a simple method to reduce the MC, while adding the MLs in the slot of the ground can further reduce the MC. In the first configuration, one ML is inserted in the slot of the ground and a maximum MC reduction of 39 dB throughout the −10 dB bandwidth is achieved. What’s more, the radiation patterns are not changed compared with the dual-element microstrip antenna array with a slotted ground. For the second configuration, two MLs are added in the slot of the ground. It is found that a maximum isolation of 53 dB can be obtained. However, the radiation patterns are slightly changed compared with the dual-element microstrip antenna array with a slot in the ground. Meanwhile, the measured peak gain and efficiency of the dual-element microstrip antenna array in the two configurations are given. Along with this paper, several prototypes have been fabricated and measured. The simulated results are in good accordance with the measurements, which are presented to verify that MC reduction can be achieved between microstrip antenna elements by adding the MLs in the slotted ground.

scholarly journals Improving the Performance of a Microstrip Antenna by Adding a Slot into Different Patch Designs

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 7469-7476
Author(s):  
M. J. Hakeem ◽  
M. M. Nahas
Keyword(s):  
Microstrip Antenna ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Ground Plane ◽  
Front Surface ◽  
Dielectric Substrate ◽  
Patch Antennas ◽  
High Frequency Structure Simulator ◽  
Microstrip Patch Antennas ◽  
Microstrip Patch ◽  
Antenna Performance

Microstrip patch antennas are attractive for communication applications due to their small size, low cost, and easy fabrication. Regardless of the diverse usage of these antennas, their bandwidth and efficiency are still limited and need to be improved. Therefore, this paper aims to enhance the bandwidth and efficiency of a microstrip antenna by inserting a slot into various patch designs. Flame Retardant (FR4) material is used in the dielectric substrate and the antenna is fed by a microstrip line. Virtually, the antenna performance is attempted to be optimized through empirical investigations of feedline lengths, slot sizes and positions, and ground plane dimensions and locations. To achieve the results, the High Frequency Structure Simulator (HFSS) is used, and the paper concludes by showing that the antenna performance is enhanced by the slot, and the return loss is significantly reduced when the ground plane is moved to the front surface of the antenna.

scholarly journals Improvement of a Circular Microstrip Antenna Excited by Four Feeds and Suspended with Artificial Magnetic Conductors

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanchai Eardprab ◽  
Chuwong Phongcharoenpanich ◽  
Danai Torrungrueng
Keyword(s):  
Microstrip Antenna ◽  
Axial Ratio ◽  
Microstrip Antennas ◽  
Patch Antennas ◽  
Microstrip Patch Antennas ◽  
Microstrip Patch ◽  
Antenna Performance ◽  
Artificial Magnetic Conductors ◽  
Circular Microstrip Antenna ◽  
Microstrip Structure

The proposed antenna is a circular microstrip structure excited by four feeds and suspended with artificial magnetic conductors (AMCs). The multifeed circular microstrip antennas can generate a high circularly polarized performance by using a different feed arrangement. AMC structures with a square, circular, or octagonal patch on a unit cell are designed and applied to circular microstrip patch antennas for the enhancement of antenna performance. It is found that simulated results of the proposed antenna are well suited. The properties of wide beamwidth with good axial ratio can be achieved when applying the proposed AMC structures to circular microstrip antennas. The antenna prototype was fabricated to validate simulated results.

scholarly journals Design of a High Gain Compact Circular Microstrip Patch Antenna for X-Band

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.6) ◽  
pp. 168
Author(s):  
Madhukant Patel ◽  
Veerendra Singh Jadaun ◽  
Kanhiya Lal ◽  
Piyush Kuchhal
Keyword(s):  
Patch Antenna ◽  
Microstrip Antenna ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
High Gain ◽  
Microstrip Patch Antenna ◽  
Radar Sensors ◽  
Microstrip Patch ◽  
X Band ◽  
Circular Patch Antenna ◽  
Power Radiation

This paper presents design a High Gain Small Size Microstrip Patch Antenna for X-Band applications such as Moving target RADAR sensor, Motion detector, Microwave camera, Ground Penetration RADAR sensors, wall penetration scanners and many medical applications. Now we have to selected circular geometry of micro strip patch antenna because circular geometry overcomes edge effect of antenna. The proposed antenna is designed to operate for X-band at the centre frequency of 10 GHz. The proposed Circular patch antenna is compact and easy to body mount with a high efficiency. The compactness makes it a better choice as compare with other antenna in the X-band. The proposed antenna shows a very sharp return loss of -46 dB at 10 GHz having narrow pattern with a good gain of 4.7 dBi. This enables its use in high directional applications. The paper represents the designing steps, and the simulation result obtained. The software used here for this circular shaped microstrip antenna is IE3D. Various parameters such as gain, power, radiation pattern, and S11 of the antenna are mentioned.

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.

Enhancement of the gain and bandwidth of the microstrip patch antenna with modified ground plane

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 1179-1184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalyan Mondal ◽  
Partha Pratim Sarkar
Keyword(s):  
Microstrip Antenna ◽  
Ground Plane ◽  
High Gain ◽  
Microstrip Patch Antenna ◽  
Impedance Bandwidth ◽  
Network Analyzer ◽  
Microstrip Patch ◽  
Optimum Selection ◽  
Peak Gain ◽  
Selection Of

In this work, microstrip antenna with W- and V-shaped radiating patches have been proposed. Here square- and circular-shaped modified ground planes have been designed by poly tetra fluoro ethylene (PTFE) substrate with dielectric constant 2.4. Broadband with high gain is obtained by optimum selection of radiating patch with modified ground plane. The ground planes are modified by loading a U-shaped slot. The simulated and measured results are compared. Considering −10 dB impedance bandwidth maximum frequency band of 6.97 GHz (3.04–10.01 GHz) with percentage bandwidth of 106.8% is achieved. The proposed antenna exhibits maximum peak gain of 5.1 dBi. The simulation and measurement have been done by Ansoft designer software and vector network analyzer.

Wideband Microstrip Patch Antennas with Transverse Electric Modes

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (8) ◽  
pp. 971-974
Author(s):  
Tanzeela Mitha ◽  
Maria Pour
Keyword(s):  
Transverse Electric ◽  
Ground Plane ◽  
Transverse Magnetic ◽  
Impedance Bandwidth ◽  
Patch Antennas ◽  
Microstrip Patch Antennas ◽  
Microstrip Patch ◽  
Te Mode ◽  
Artificial Magnetic Conductors ◽  
Unit Cells

A wideband microstrip patch antenna, exciting the fundamental transverse electric (TE) mode, is investigated. The excitation of the TE mode is facilitated through replacing both of the patch and ground plane of a conventional microstrip antenna with artificial magnetic conductors (AMC), consisting of unipolar compact photonic bandgap (UC-PBG) unit cells. The AMC patch and the ground plane of this antenna behave as magnetic conductors within the bandgap region of the unit cells. Similar to conventional patch antennas, it is shown that by cutting a U-shaped slot in the AMC patch, wideband characteristics are realized. The antenna shows a 40% impedance bandwidth and operates at the TE10 mode. Moreover, the width of the patch is 1.75 times smaller than its length, reducing the overall size of the antenna by about 60%, compared with the conventional U-slot PEC antenna supporting the transverse magnetic (TM) mode.

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