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Design of microstrip antenna for LTE (Long Term Evolution) 700 MHz
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 2013 International Conference of Information and Communication Technology (ICoICT)

Design of Microstrip Antenna for LTE (Long Term

Evolution) 700 MHz Applications

Dony Sugianto Tommi Hariyadi

Fakultas Pendidikan Teknologi dan Kejuruan Fakultas Pendidikan Teknologi dan Kejuruan
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
Bandung, Indonesia Bandung, Indonesia
[email protected] [email protected]

Abstract – This paper discusses the design of microstrip

antenna which is used in cellular communication application II. ANTENNA DESIGN
especially at LTE 700 MHz network. The antenna was printed The microstrip antenna designed in this paper is a
using FR-4 substrate material with dielectric constant of r = rectangular microstrip patch antenna that utilizes microstrip
4.65 and thickness of h = 1.6 mm. The overall dimension of the line feed connected with SMA connector [4]. The designed
antenna is 135 mm x 32 mm x 1.6 mm with 50 Ω impedance. This
antenna has 50 Ω impedance and created using FR-4 substrate
antenna operates between 697.6 MHz and 784.9 MHz for return
loss of less than -10 dB. The simulation results suggest that the
with dielectric constant of 4.65 and thickness of 1.6 mm. The
antenna gain ranges between 1.5 dBi and 2 dBi with overall dimension is 135 mm x 32 mm x 1.6mm. The antenna
omnidirectional radiation pattern. is designed with the help of software with Finite Integration
Technique (FIT) method.
Keywords—microstrip antenna, LTE, omnidirectional

I. INTRODUCTION
The evolution of wireless technology has grown
dramatically. In the future, it is estimated that the need to
access the internet will increase along with ever increasing
human mobility. The presence of service for higher data rate
will be the solution to answer the needs. In order to overcome
this issue, LTE (Long Term Evolution) technology was
launched. LTE will be the step towards the fourth generation
(4G) originated from radio technology which is designed to
improve network capacity and speed [1]. LTE provides
downlink capacity of at least100 Mbps and uplink capacity of
at least 50 Mbps.
In the wireless communication system, the role of antenna
is very crucial. Wireless technology application requires a
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small, light weighted, cheap and easy to install antenna,
without compromising its performance [2]. Microstrip antenna
meets several requirements above. The special quality of
microstrip antenna is its low profile and easy in realization.
The proposed antenna dimension designed in this paper is 135
mm x 32 mm x 1.6 mm. The designed antenna follows the
antenna design [3] with different shape of the patch. Besides, (a) (b)
the antenna’s ground plane is narrowed down for better return Figure 1. Antenna Design (a) top view and
loss value. Antenna [3] has the dimension of 242 mm x 35 mm
x 1.65 mm which is larger than the antenna designed in this (b) bottom view
paper. In addition, the designed antenna has operating
frequency between 697.6 MHz and 784.9 MHz for VSWR less
than 2 with wide bandwith of 87.3 MHz. The purpose of The configuration of designed antenna using the help of
antenna design is to improve the efficiency of LTE network. this software can be seen in Figure 1. Figure 1(a) and 1(b)
shows the top and bottom view of the antenna, respectively.
The size of antenna parameter is shown in Table 1.

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Table 1. Antenna parameter’s size

Parameter Size (mm) Parameter Size (mm)
Ws 32 W8 2
Wg 32 Ls 135
W1 27 Lg 48
W2 6.5 L1 69
W3 23 L2 61
Figure 3. VSWR at frequency 697.6 MHz
W4 2 L3 53
The designed antenna operates very well at frequency
W5 2 L4 2 738.1 MHz, with the value of VSWR is 1.084. Figure 4 shows
W6 13,75 L5 43 the VSWR value at 738.1 MHz.

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The fabrication of microstrip antenna was conducted based

on the simulation results utilizing the above mentioned
software. Antenna fabrication was very easy to do and
inexpensive.

III. SIMULATION RESULTS

The software that be used to simulate the antenna has the
ability to display several antenna parameters such as return
loss, VSWR, impedance, gain and radiation pattern. This Figure 4. VSWR at frequency 738.1 MHz
section illustrates several simulation results of the designed
antenna. At frequency 784.9 MHz, a decline in antenna’s quality
performance was observed. This is due to high VSWR value of
1.889. However, this would not be an issue, as the VSWR
A. Return loss and Bandwidth value was still below the requirement of < 2. Figure 5 shows
Figure 2 demonstrates the return loss (S-Parameter) value, the VSWR value at 784.9 MHz.
as a result of antenna simulation. The antenna operates between
697.6 MHz and 784.9 MHz. Bandwidth is obtained from the
difference between the upper and the lower frequencies.
Bandwidth obtained from the simulation was quite large, 87.3
MHz.

Figure 5. VSWR at frequency 784.9 MHz

Figure 2. Return loss (S-Parameter) of simulation result C. Gain

The antenna has various gains at frequency range between
B. VSWR 697.6 MHz and 784.9 MHz. At 697.6 MHz, the antenna gain
was 1.535 dBi as shown in Figure 6. The antenna gain at 738.1
Figure 3 illustrates the VSWR simulation result value.
MHz was 2.093 dBi, which is demonstrated in Figure 7. At
The VSWR value obtained from simulation at 697.6 MHz was
784.9 MHz, the antenna gain was 1.745 dBi as depicted in
1.932. This VSWR value fulfills the criteria of less than 2.
Figure 8. From the results, it can be observed that at the

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operating frequency, the highest antenna gain occurs at 784.9

MHz where at this frequency, the VSWR antenna reaches the
lowest value. In addition, the antenna gain at 738.1 MHz is
greater than that of at other frequencies. This is because the
efficiency at this frequency is greater than that of at other
frequencies as seen in Figure 6, 8 and 10.

D. Radiation Pattern

The designed antenna has omnidirectional radiation

pattern, as shown in Figure 6 to 11. This is one of the
characteristics of a monopole antenna, which is similar to that
of dipole antenna. Radiation pattern of E plane and H plane at (a) E plane (b) H plane
697.6 MHz can be seen in Figure 7. Figure 9. Radiation pattern of E plane and H plane at frequency
738.1 MHz

The 3D radiation pattern at 784.9 MHz frequency can be

seen in Figure 10, while radiation pattern of E plane and H
plane is depicted in Figure 11.

Figure 6. Gain dan pola radiasi 3D pada frekuansi 697,6 MHz

Figure 10. Gain dan pola radiasi 3D pada frekuansi 784,9 MHz

(a) E plane (b) H plane

Figure 7. Radiation pattern of E plane and H plane at frequency
697.6 MHz

The 3D radiation pattern at 738.1 MHz is shown in Figure

8 while radiation pattern of E plane and H plane can be seen in (a) E plane (b) H plane
Figure 9. Figure 11. Radiation pattern of E plane and H plane at frequency
784.9 MHz

Table 2 shows VSWR value and antenna gain simulation

results. The antenna operates very well at 738.1 MHz
frequency and exerts larger gain of 2.1 dB, which is larger
than that of other frequencies.

Table 2. Antenna simulation results of VSWR and gain

Frequency (MHz) VSWR Gain (dB)
697.6 1,932 1,535
738,1 1,084 2,093
Figure 8. Gain dan pola radiasi 3D pada frekuansi 738,1 MHz 784,9 1,889 1,745

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IV. CONCLUSION REFERENCES

From the design and simulation of microstrip antenna with
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that the antenna operating frequency ranges from 697.6 MHz to
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135 mm x 32 mm x 1.6 mm. Due its 700 MHz operating 2009.
frequency, this antenna can be implemented in LTE (Long
Term Evolution) 700 MHz applications.

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