Size Reduction of A Microstrip Antenna using Loading Circuit Method for UHF Band

This paper presents a process and result of reduction of the dimensions of microstrip square antenna shorting pins or loading circuit inserted to the antenna comparing to the conventional one. The slits applied to the antenna to generate the circular polarization properties of the antenna. This antenna is called as a Loading Circuit Microstrip Slit (an LCMS) antenna. The antenna is designed to work at a frequency of 435.9 MHz. This frequency is a part of UHF band of nano-satellite operation. From the simulation results, by adding a loading circuit of chip resistor 1 Ohm instead of the shorting pin, the overall size of an LCMS antenna will be reduced and the bandwidth of antenna becomes wider. For frequency of 435.9 MHz, the return loss of antenna is -21.445 dB, the bandwidth is 44.13 MHz, axial ratio is 2.9 dB, and the total size reduction of an LCMS antenna is equal to 338.46%.

Design, Simulation and Fabrication of an Implanted Antenna at ISM Band in Body Tissue

A rectangular meandering-microstrip patch antenna (RM-MPA) with shorting pin for implant antenna and biomedical applications at industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band is proposed. The rectangular patch has length of l =14 mm and width of w =9.4 mm. The substrate and superstrate are made of Rogers 3210 with dielectric constant equals 10.2. The RMMPA is placed between the substrate and superstrate dielectric layers whose same thickness equals 0.635 mm. The proposed antenna is fed by a 50-ohm coaxial probe, at the centre of the length and edge of the width of the patch. The input impedance of patch antenna varies with the patch geometry. Thus, the geometry of the patch changed to achieve impedance matching at ISM band. The rectangular patch divided to three sections along width for meandering. The resonance frequency is tuned by meandering each section. The proposed antenna is simulated in free space and skin phantom. Proposed antenna has efficiency of 90%, bandwidth 1.02%. Both radiation pattern and SAR are evaluated which SAR level is below the safety and satisfies SAR standards. Finally, the antenna is tested in minced meat and tissue liquid.

Periodic Microstrip Leaky Wave Antenna with Double-Sided Shorting Pins and Pairs of Slots

A backward to forward scanning periodic microstrip leaky wave antenna (MLWA) is presented. The proposed antenna consists of a long rectangular patch with alternating shorting pin on each side, which connects the antenna patch and the ground plane to form periodic shorting circuits. There are two pairs of slots alternately spaced on the long patch to suppress the open stop band (OSB). The OSB problem was initially reduced by optimizing the structural parameters, and the slotting on the patch further improved it. The measured radiation pattern in the y-z plane shows that the antenna can scan electronically from 142° to 39° toward the end-fire (+z direction) when the operating frequency changes from 6 GHz to 12.9 GHz. The measured gain is greater than 5 dBi over the entire operating band.

mmWave High Gain Planar H-Shaped Shorted Ring Antenna Array

A new design approach for a mmWave high gain planar antenna is presented. The proposed method can increase antenna directivity with a minimally enlarged radiation patch while the operation frequency is still matched at a higher target frequency. The fundamental structure of the proposed antenna is configured by a H-shaped and slot-loaded patch with a shorting pin symmetrically located across a signal excitation port. Further, to match the operation frequency with the frequency for the highest achievable gain, a vertically stacked matching conductor was inserted along the signal feed path between the radiation patch and the ground layer. The proposed single antenna showed the simulated directivity of 9.46 dBi while the conventional patch with a same dielectric had 8.07 dBi. To verify practical performance, a 2 × 2 array antenna was fabricated at 28 GHz and showed the measured gain of 12.5 dBi including the array feed loss.

Design of dual-mode SIR bandpass filter based on shorting pin for wireless communication applications

<p id="docs-internal-guid-6a9909c3-7fff-4ac4-3e3a-a2f823e1246f" dir="ltr"><span>A new design of microstrip dual mode band-pass-filter (BPF) by using stepped impedance resonator (SIR) based on shorting pin is proposed. The designed structure use two U-shaped tri-sections SIR resonators coupled to each other and a two coupled line feeding ports each of 50 ohm impedance. Shorting pins are used to excite the upper frequency passband in the re sponse of the filter due to current distribution perturbation at the locations of the shorting pins. For demonstration, WLAN (5.2-5.7 GHz) and GSM (1.85-1.99 GHz) and Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) (1.71-1.755 GHz). The return losses are -32.469 dB and -26.18 dB respectively at the operating frequencies of the filter. The results of insertion losses of the filter is 0.37 and 0.24 dB during the operating bands and more than 25 dB which consider a good out-of- band rejection. </span></p>

Ultra-Wideband Compact Microstrip Patch Antenna for C, X and K-band Applications

A novel stacked double U, angular ring shaped MIMO antenna is designed using DGS, and a pair of balanced shorting pin is proposed for C, X, and K-band applications. The aim of this design is to enhance the bandwidth by using different techniques in a compact MSA. The proposed antenna is designed on an FR4 substrate with permittivity of 4.4 is used in this design with dimension of 10×10 mm2 with two-microstrip line and one coaxial feed as a feeding mechanism. Two asymmetrical antennas of FR4 substrate are stacked with an air gap of thickness 1.6mm that exhibits a low correlation coefficient; low mutual coupling and refection coefficient is below-25 dB. The antenna is simulated through HFSS software 13.0 version shows Operates at UWB of frequency range 6.17-9.3, 18.1-18.7 GHz with maximum radiation efficiency of 83%.