DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF MICROSTRIP

ANTENNAS FOR ULTRA-WIDE BAND

APPLICATIONS
A Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of

Master of Technology
In
Communication and Networks

by

Dhunish Kumar
Roll No: 212EC5165

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

National Institute of Technology Rourkela
Rourkela, Odisha, 769008
May 2014
DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF MICROSTRIP
ANTENNAS FOR ULTRA-WIDE BAND
APPLICATIONS
A Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of

Master of Technology
In
Communication and Networks

by

Dhunish Kumar
Roll No: 212EC5165

Under the Guidance of

Prof. Santanu Kumar Behera

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

National Institute of Technology Rourkela
Rourkela, Odisha, 769008
May 2014
 DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION

ENGINEERING

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, ROURKELA

ROURKELA- 769008, ODISHA, INDIA

CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that the work in this thesis entitled “DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF

MICROSTRIP ANTENNA FOR ULTRA-WIDE BAND APPLICATIONS” by Mr.

DHUNISH KUMAR is a record of an original research work carried out by his during 2013-

2014 under my supervision and guidance in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the award

of the degree of Master of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering

(Communication and Networks), National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. Neither this

thesis nor any part of it, to the best of my knowledge, has been submitted for any degree or

diploma elsewhere.

Place: NIT Rourkela Dr. Santanu Kumar Behera

Date: 27th May 2014 Associate Professor
 DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION

ENGINEERING

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, ROURKELA

ROURKELA- 769008, ODISHA, INDIA

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I certify that

a) The work comprised in the thesis is original and is done by myself under the
supervision of my supervisor.

b) The work has not been submitted to any other institute for any degree or
diploma.

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giving their details in the references.

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Dhunish Kumar
212EC5165
 Acknowledgements

The work posed in this thesis is by far the most substantial attainment in my life and it would
be unimaginable without people who affirmed me and believed in me. First and foremost I
evince my profound reverence and deep regards to my guide Prof. S. K. Behera for
exemplary guidance, supervising and constant encouragement throughout the course of this
thesis. A gentleman embodied, in true form and spirit, I consider it to my good fortune to
have consociated with him.

I would like to evince a deep sense of gratitude to estimable Prof. S. Meher, Head of the
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering for providing us with best
facilities and his timely suggestions.

My special thanks to Prof. S K. Patra, Prof. K. K. Mahapatra of Department of Electronics

and Communication Engineering for their constant inspiration and encouragement during my
research. I want to thank all other faculty members of Department of Electronics and
Communication Engineering for their constant support and encouragement during my
research. My special thanks to Ph.D scholars Runa Kumari, Yogesh Kumar Choukiker,
Natarajamani S for their help, cooperation and encouragement. I would like to thank all my
friends who made my journey at NIT Rourkela an indelible and gratifying experience.

Finally, my heartfelt gratitude towards my family for their tireless love and support
throughout my life. They taught me the value of hard work by their own life example. They
gave me tremendous support during my stay in NIT Rourkela.

Dhunish Kumar

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 Abstract

The goal of this thesis is to design and analysis the Microstrip Patch Antenna which covers
the Ultra Wide Band 3.1 to 10.6 GHz. This thesis covers study of basics and fundamentals of
microstrip patch antenna. A series of parametric study were done to find that how the
characteristics of the antenna depends on its various geometrical and other parameters.
The various geometrical parameters of the antenna are the dimensions of the patch and
ground planes and the separation between them and it also includes the dielectric constant
of the substrate material. The parametric study also contains the study of different
techniques for optimizing the different parameters of antenna to get the optimum results
and performance. This is a simulation based study. The design and simulation of the
antenna is carried out using CST microwave Studio simulation software. Four antennas with
different types of shapes were designed which cover the entire UWB range. The First
designed antenna has two half circular patches which are overlapped to each other. A
narrow rectangular slit is added to the patch to improve the performance of antenna. The
return loss curve shows that the antenna has bandwidth from 3GHz to 12GHz with a
minimum S11 -45 dB at 3.5 GHz. The second design is elliptical patch antenna with modified
ground plane which covers 2.46 Ghz to 13.62 Ghz frequency range has a minimum return
loss at resonance frequency 10GHz -50dB. The third and fourth designs are Extended
Circular Planar Antenna and Candy Bar Shape Microstrip Patch Antenna that uses defected
ground plane and modified ground planes respectively which covers the entire UWB. Return
loss curve, antenna gains and the Farfield results are shown for all the designed antennas.
Various results reflect the good antenna performance in the UWB range of frequency. Then
the effects of varying the parameters of the antenna on its performance are investigated
and shown.

In now a days it is essential for an antenna designed for a system to

avoid the interference from the other existing wireless system. The antenna should possess
a band reject characteristic at interfering frequency bands. Then three compact UWB
antenna designs with different notches for the various applications like WLAN, WIMAX,
downlink X-band satellite communication and INSAT/Super Extended C-band are proposed.

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The first band notch antenna covers the UWB with three band notches for WLAN, downlink
X-band satellite communication and INSAT/Super Extended C-band. Second design has the
band notches for WIMAX and WLAN application and a band notch characteristic for WIMAX
is proposed in third design. Return loss curve, Farfield, antenna gain and surface current
distribution in shown which shows that how the band rejection is achieved by creating
various defects and slots. Effect of parameter modification are observed and plotted. All the
design antennas are fabricated on an inexpensive dielectric substrate FR-4 with relative
permittivity (εr) of 4.4 with thickness of 1.6 mm. The simulation results of band notch
antennas indicate that the proposed antenna fulfils the excellent band notch characteristics for
various frequency bands and showing the good return loss and radiation patters in the
interested UWB.

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 Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENT
ABSTRACT
LIST OF FIGURES
LIST OF TABLES
CHAPTER 1: Introduction 1
1.1 Objective of work 2
1.2 Outline of the Thesis 3

CHAPTER 2: Fundamentals Terms of Antenna 4

2.1 Radiation Patterns 4
2.2 Field Region 5
2.3 Directivity 6
2.4 Antenna Gain 6
2.5 Antenna Bandwidth 6
2.6 Antenna Polarization 7
CHAPTER 3: Theory of Microstrip Patch Antenna 9
3.1 History 9
3.2 Microstrip Antenna 10
3.3 Radiation Mechanism 12
3.4 Advantages and Disadvantages 14
3.5 Applications 15
3.6 Feeding Techniques 18
3.6.1 Microstrip Line Feed 18
3.6.2 Coaxial Probe feed 19
3.6.3 Proximity Coupled Feed 20
3.6.4 Aperture Coupled Feed 20

CHAPTER 4: Rectangular Microstrip Patch Antenna 23

4.1 Methods of Analysis 24
4.1.1 Transmission Line Model 24
4.1.2 Cavity Model 31

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 4.2 Circular Microstrip Patch Antenna 35

CHAPTER 5: Design of Microstrip Antenna for UWB Application 37

Design.1 Modified Circular Patch Antenna for UWB application 38

Design.2 Elliptical Shape Patch Antenna with Modified Groundplane 42
Design.3 Extended Circular Planar Antenna For UWB application 46
Design.4 Candy Shape Microstrip Patch Antenna With Modified 50
Groundplane
CHAPTER 6: Band Notch UWB Antenna Design 54

Design.1Triple Band Notch Planar Antenna For UWB Application 55

Design.2 A Elliptical UWB Patch Antenna with Dual Band Notch 61
Design.3 Compact UWB Antenna with DGS having a Band-Notch for 65
WIMAX
CHAPTER 7: Conclusion and Future work 70

REFERENCE 71

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 List of Figures

Figure 2. 1Bandwidth ............................................................................................................................................. 8

Figure 3. 1 Microstrip Patch Antenna ................................................................................................................... 11
Figure 3. 2 Side view of Microstrip Patch Antenna .............................................................................................. 11
Figure 3. 3 Current and voltage variation along the Patch length ......................................................................... 13
Figure 3. 4 Fringing fields .................................................................................................................................... 13
Figure 3. 5 Microstrip applicator used for hyperthermia application ................................................................... 17
Figure 3. 6 Microstrip Patch Antenna .................................................................................................................. 19
Figure 3. 7 Coaxial Probe Feed ............................................................................................................................ 19
Figure 3. 8 Proximity Coupled Antenna ............................................................................................................... 20
Figure 3. 9 Aperture Coupling .............................................................................................................................. 21
Figure 3. 10 Equivalent Circuit for Feeding Techniques ...................................................................................... 22
Figure 4. 1Rectangular Patch Antenna ................................................................................................................. 23
Figure 4. 2 Fringing Field Effect .......................................................................................................................... 24
Figure 4. 3 Effective Dielectric Constant ............................................................................................................. 25
Figure 4. 4 Dielectric Constant Vs Frequency curve ............................................................................................ 26
Figure 4. 5 Length Extension ................................................................................................................................ 26
Figure 4. 6 Normalized Input Resistance .............................................................................................................. 30
Figure 4. 7 Rectangular Patch for cavity Model ................................................................................................... 31
Figure 4. 8 Circular Patch Antenna ...................................................................................................................... 35
Figure 5.1. 1 Front and Back View and Fabricated Antenna ................................................................................ 38
Figure 5.1. 2 frequency vs s11 curve for optimized values .................................................................................. 39
Figure 5.1. 3 frequency vs s11 curve for different values of radius r ................................................................... 40
Figure 5.1. 4 frequency vs s11 curve for different values of a .............................................................................. 40
Figure 5.1. 5 Radiation Pattern for frequency 3.63, 7.63 and 9.3 respectively. .................................................... 41
Figure 5.1. 6 Realized Gain vs Frequency plot ..................................................................................................... 41
figure 5.2. 1 front and back view of proposed antenna ......................................................................................... 42
figure 5.2. 2 Return loss curve for different modifications in ground. ................................................................. 43
figure 5.2. 3 Return loss curve for different position of slit. ................................................................................. 44
figure 5.2. 4 Return loss curve for different value of notch length b .................................................................... 44
figure 5.2. 5 Return loss curve for different value of notch width a ..................................................................... 45
figure 5.2. 6 Radiation Pattern for frequency 5.58, 8.56 and 10 respectively. ...................................................... 45
figure 5.2. 7 Realized Gain vs Frequency plot ...................................................................................................... 45
Figure 5.3. 1 front and back view of proposed antenna ........................................................................................ 46
Figure 5.3. 2 Return loss vs frequency curve of proposed antenna. ..................................................................... 47
Figure 5.3. 3 Return loss vs frequency curve for different values of a. ................................................................ 47
Figure 5.3. 4 Radiation Pattern for frequency 3.63, 7.45 and 11.03 respectively. ................................................ 48
Figure 5.3. 5 Realized Gain vs Frequency plot ..................................................................................................... 48

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Figure 5.4. 1 Structural diagram of antenna ......................................................................................................... 49
Figure 5.4. 2 Return loss vs frequency curve of proposed antenna. ..................................................................... 50
Figure 5.4. 3 Return loss vs frequency curve for different values of a ................................................................. 50
Figure 5.4. 4 Return loss vs frequency curve for different values of d ................................................................. 51
Figure 5.4. 5 Radiation Pattern for frequency 3.284, 9.06 and 11.434 respectively. ............................................ 51
Figure 5.4. 6 Realized Gain vs Frequency plot .................................................................................................... 51
Figure 6.1. 1 front and back view of proposed antenna ........................................................................................ 53
Figure 6.1. 2 U-Slot and C-shape slit.................................................................................................................... 54
Figure 6.1. 3 VSWR vs frequency curve of Proposed Antenna............................................................................ 55
Figure 6.1. 4 VSWR vs frequency curve for different values of s spacing between slits and feed line ................ 55
Figure 6.1. 5 VSWR vs frequency curve for different radius r of annular ring. ................................................... 56
Figure 6.1. 6 VSWR vs frequency curve for different length L1 of U-shape notch. ............................................ 56
Figure 6.1. 7 VSWR vs frequency curve for different Width w1 of U-shape notch. ............................................ 57
Figure 6.1. 8 Radiation pattern and Surface current distribution at 4.7GHz ......................................................... 57
Figure 6.1. 9 Radiation pattern and Surface current distribution at 5.6GHz ......................................................... 58
Figure 6.1. 10 Radiation pattern and Surface current distribution at 7.5GHz....................................................... 58
Figure 6.1. 11 Realized Gain vs Frequency plot ................................................................................................... 58
Figure 6.2. 1 front and back view of proposed antenna and fabricated antenna. .................................................. 59
Figure 6.2. 2 Dimensions of inverted U-slot......................................................................................................... 60
Figure 6.2. 3 Return loss vs frequency curve of proposed antenna. ..................................................................... 61
Figure 6.2. 4 VSWR vs frequency curve of proposed antenna. ............................................................................ 61
Figure 6.2. 5 VSWR vs frequency curve for different length L1 of U-shape notch. ............................................ 61
Figure 6.2. 6 VSWR vs frequency curve for different width W1 of U-shape notch. ............................................ 62
Figure 6.2. 7 VSWR vs frequency curve for different width W3 of U-shape notch. ............................................ 62
Figure 6.2. 8 VSWR vs frequency curve for different length L3 of U-shape notch. ............................................ 62
Figure 6.2. 9 Surface current distribution frequency at 3.47GHz and 5.54GHz ................................................... 63
Figure 6.2. 10 Radiation Pattern at frequency 3.47GHz and 5.54GHz ................................................................. 63
Figure 6.2. 11 Realized Gain vs Frequency plot ................................................................................................... 64
Figure 6.3. 1 Front view and back view with parameters .................................................................................... 65
Figure 6.3. 2 Fabricated antenna ........................................................................................................................... 65
Figure 6.3. 3 VSWR vs frequency curve of designed antenna. ............................................................................ 66
Figure 6.3. 4 VSWR vs frequency curve for different length L1 of U-shape notch. ............................................ 67
Figure 6.3. 5 VSWR vs frequency curve for different width w1 of U-shape notch. ............................................. 67
Figure 6.3. 6 Surface current distribution at 3.622 GHz ....................................................................................... 68
Figure 6.3. 7 Radiation Pattern at 3.622 GHz ....................................................................................................... 68
Figure 6.3. 8 Realized Gain vs Frequency plot ..................................................................................................... 69

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 List of Tables

Table 4. 1 Bessel Function values ........................................................................................................................ 36

Table 5.1 Dimensions of the Proposed 1st Design ............................................................................................... 38
Table 5.2 Dimensions of the Proposed 2nd Design .............................................................................................. 43
Table 5. 3 Dimensions of the Proposed 3rd Design .............................................................................................. 46
Table 5. 4 Dimensions of the Proposed 4th Design .............................................................................................. 49
Table 6. 1 Dimensions of the Proposed 5th Design .............................................................................................. 54
Table 6. 2 Dimensions of the Proposed 6th Design .............................................................................................. 60
Table 6. 3 Dimensions of the Proposed 7th Design .............................................................................................. 66

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Chapter 1
Introduction

1.1) Introduction

In now day’s the wireless system has become a part of human life. Most of the
electrical and electronics equipment around are using the wireless system. An antenna is an
essential element of the wireless system. Antenna is an electrical device which transmits the
electromagnetic waves into the space by converting the electric power given at the input into
the radio waves and at the receiver side the antenna intercepts these radio waves and converts
them back into the electrical power. There are so many systems that uses antenna such as
remote controlled television, cellular phones, satellite communications, spacecraft, radars,
wireless phones and wireless computer networks. Day by day new wireless devices are
introducing which increasing1 demands of compact antennas. Increase in the satellite
communication and use of antennas in the aircraft and spacecraft has also increased the
demands a low profile antenna that can provide a reliable communication.

A microstrip antenna is one who offers low profile and

light weight. It is a wide beam narrowband antenna can be manufactured easily by the
printed circuit technology such as a metallic layers in a particular shape is bonded on a
dielectric substrate which forms a radiating element and another continuous metallic layer on
the other side of substrate as ground plane. not only the basic shapes any continuous shape
can be used as the radiating patch. Instead of using dielectric substrate Some of the microstrip
antennas use dielectric spacers which results in wider bandwidth but in the cost of less
ruggedness. Microstrip antennas are low profile antenna and mechanical rugged and can be
easily mounted on any planar and nonplanar surfaces. The size of microstrip antenna is
related to the wavelength of operation generally /2. The applications of microstrip antennas
are above the microwave frequency because below these frequency the use of microstrip
antenna doesn’t make a sense because of the size of antenna. At frequencies lower than
microwave, microstrip patches don't make sense because of the sizes required. Now a day’s
microstrip antenna is used in commercial sectors due to its inexpensiveness and easy to
manufacture benefit by advanced printed circuit technology. Due to the development and

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ongoing research in the area of microstrip antenna it is expected that in future after some time
most of the conventional antenna will be replaced by microstrip antenna.

1.2 Objective of the Work

The common shapes of the microstrip patch are rectangular, square, circular, triangular, etc.
All these have been theoretically studied and there are well established design formulae for
each of them. Antenna design is an innovative task where new types of antenna are studied.
So, here a new shape of microstrip patch antenna is designed which will cover the entire
Ultra Wide Band. One of the major problem for UWB systems are electromagnetic
interference (EMI) from existing frequency bands, because there are many other wireless
narrowband application that are allocated for different frequencies band in the UWB band.

Therefore it is necessary for the designer to design the UWB antenna they can reflect the
interference from the other existing bands. To overcome this interference problem UWB
antennas should have band notches therefore they can reject the existing frequency bands
within the ultra-wide band. Here three designs with different band notches for UWB
applications are proposed.

The goal of this thesis is to study how the performance of the antenna depends on various
parameters of microstrip patch antenna. This is a simulation based study. CST Microwave
studio software, one commercial 3-D full-wave electromagnetic simulation software tool is
used for the design and simulation of the antenna. Then, the antenna parameters are varied to
study the effect of variation of the antenna parameters on the antenna performance.

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1.3 Outline of the Thesis

Chapter 1 of the thesis contains the overall introduction to the microstrip antenna and this
chapter also concluded with the details of outline of the present thesis.

Chapter 2: this chapter is dedicated to Literature Survey of my thesis gives an overview

about the microstrip antenna; the mechanism of radiation behind the microstrip antenna,
advantages and disadvantages as compare to their counterpart and finally the major
applications in different fields. All the popular feeding methods used in microstrip antenna
with their significance are also discussed in this chapter.

Chapter 3: The basic parameters on which the selection and performance of an antenna is
characterize, are Bandwidth, Antenna Polarization, radiation, Pattern, Efficiency, Antenna
Gain are described in brief in this chapter.

Chapter 4: In this Chapter two basic and mostly used microstrip patch Rectangular and
Circular patch is discussed this chapter also deals that how the design parameters are
calculated and their effect on the antenna performance.

Chapter 5: This chapter deals with the design and simulation of four microstrip patch
antenna of different shapes. Various methods for increasing the bandwidth are also applied.
Various simulation results and graphs characterizing the antenna performance are plotted and
the effect of various antenna parameters on the antenna performance is also observed and
compared and shown in the chapter. This proposed antenna structures are simulated in CAD
software Microwave Studio in Computer Simulation Technology Simulator (CST), one
commercial 3-D full-wave electromagnetic simulation software.

Chapter 6: In this chapter the requirement of Band Notch Antenna in UWB is discussed. It
contains the design and simulation of three different microstrip patch antenna. Various
techniques for getting the band notch is implemented in the designs. Effects of modification
of antenna parameters on the various results and graphs of the antenna are also studied and
plotted.

Chapter 7: Contains the conclusion of the thesis and future work.

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 Chapter 2

Fundamentals of Antenna

Different types of application requires antenna

with different parameters. Like for cellular mobile communication a circular polarized
antenna is requires with high gain and for satellite communication in downlink a high
directive antenna is required. The selection and the performance of an antenna is characterize
on the basis of some parameters these are Bandwidth, Polarization, radiation, Pattern,
Efficiency, Gain. These parameters are described in brief below

2.1) Radiation Patterns:

Also known as Antenna Pattern or Far-Field Pattern.

Radiation pattern of an antenna is graphical representation of radiated power at as fix distance
from the antenna as a function of azimuth and elevation angle. So the antenna pattern shows
that how the power is distributed in the space. For simplicity the radiation pattern can be
drawn in 2D plane for different azimuth and elevation angle referred as azimuth plane pattern
and elevation plane pattern. It is good to plot the radiation patterns in Cartesian (rectangular)
coordinates, especially when antenna radiation pattern consists of different side lobes and
where these side lobes levels plays an important role. There are different types of antenna
patterns described below

a. Omnidirectional Antennas:
Omnidirectional antenna can be referred as an antenna has
radiation pattern uniform and equally distributed in one plane generally referred to horizontal
planes. Some applications like mobile, cell phones, FM radios, walkie talkies, wireless
computer networks, cordless phones, GPS, many portable handheld devices and in base
stations antenna required with the characteristics that can radiate equally in a plane.
Omnidirectional antenna has radiation pattern like doughnut shaped. Slot antenna and dipole
antenna, whip antenna, discone antenna, duck antenna are some good example of low gain
omnidirectional antenna. Omnidirectional antenna with high gain can also be design by
narrowing the beamwidth of the antenna in the vertical plane will result in concentrating of
energy in horizontal plane. Therefore a narrow beamwidth antenna has a high gain and

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different type of omnidirectional antenna with various gains can be design. A 0dBd gain
antenna radiates more efficiently in vertical plane.

b. Directional Antennas:
As the name suggest directional antennas concentrate their
radiation in a particular direction. They are also known as Beam Antenna. They are useful in
some point to point application like satellite communication, in base station antenna to
transmitting energy in a particular sector. Yagi, horn, log-periodic antenna and panel antenna
are some example that have directional radiation pattern.

c. Isotropic radiator:
An Isotropic antenna has the radiations distributed
uniformly in all direction. An isotropic antenna radiates all the power given. It is an
imaginary antenna does not exist practically. It is used as a reference to compared with the
other antennas.

2.2) Field Regions:

The radiations from antennas are varies when we go apart from the
antenna. The field regions can be categorized in Far field region and Near Field (Fresnel)
Region. Far field region is the region beyond the Fraunhofer distance called Fraunhofer
region. It is the region after that the radiation patter does not change with the distance. The
Fraunhofer distance is related to antenna’s larger dimension and can be calculated as:

Where

R= distance from antenna

D= larger dimension of antenna
= wavelength in free space

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2.3) Directivity:

Directivity of an antenna shows that how much the antenna is able to

radiate in a particular given direction. It is a major requirement when antenna is working as a
receiver. If an antenna radiates equally in all direction then then the directivity of antenna is 1
or when measured with respect to isotropic antenna is 0dB. Directivity in its simple form can
be described as the comparison of maximum radiation intensity to average radiation intensity.
As

Directivity

Directivity of an antenna with given angle shows that the antenna radiations are
more concentrated in that given direction when talking about antenna at transmitting end.
While in case of receiving antenna it will receive the power efficiently from the particular
direction.

2.4) Gain:
Antenna Gain is also referred as Power gain or simply Gain. This
combines of antenna efficiency and directivity. For a transmitting antenna it shows how
efficiently antenna is able to radiate the given power into space in a particular direction.
While in case of receiving antenna it shows how well the antenna is to convert the received
electromagnetic waves into electrical power. When it is calculated with efficiency
and directivity D it is referred as Power Gain.

Power Gain = .D

When the directivity with a particular direction is given it is known as Directive Gain.

Directive Gain (,) = . D (,)

2.5) Antenna polarization:

Polarization of an antenna is polarization of the
electromagnetic waves radiated from the antenna. Polarization on a wave is the orientation or
path traces by the electric field vector as a function of time. Polarization can be categorized in
three parts

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 a. Linear polarization
b. Circular polarization
c. Elliptical polarization.

If the electric field vector of the wave at a given point in

space follows a linear path then the polarization is linear. Linear polarization is of two types
Vertical and Horizontal. In case of circular and elliptical polarization electric field vector
follows a circular and elliptical path. They can be Left hand polarized, if the electric field
vector tracking the path by making clockwise rotation and Right hand polarized, if the vector
tracking the path by making anti clockwise rotation.

2.6) Antenna Bandwidth:

Antenna bandwidth is another important parameter of
antenna can be described as the range of frequencies over which antenna fulfil some desired
characteristics. Bandwidth can be described on the basis of gain, axial ratio bandwidth,
Impedance or vswr bandwidth. The impedance bandwidth is the range of frequencies over
which the input impedance of antenna is perfectly matched to the characteristic impedance of
the feeding transmission line. Impedance bandwidth related to Q factor can be described as

BW = (VSWR S: 1)
√

Generally Fractional bandwidth is used for microstrip antenna. Given by

BW =

Where and are the upper and lower frequencies where the VSWR matches to S: 1.
Generally VSWR is taken 2:1 and ideally it is 1:1. To maximize the impedance bandwidth for
VSWR 2:1 proper impedance matching is required. That is we have to feed at the driving
point where antenna impedance is = 50 ohm generally. One can get a little bit more
bandwidth by feeding at the point where the antenna impedance is 65ohm.

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Figure 2. 1Bandwidth

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 Chapter 3

Theory of Microstrip Patch Antenna

3.1 History

Earlier in the 19th century in

microwave circuitry we have started using coaxial cable and twin parallel wire line as the
transmission lines. In the mid-20th century the invention of printed circuit board technology
allow us to make the printed circuit versions of these transmission lines which were very
inexpensive and simple. The two wire transmission line in printed circuit version is known as
microstrip line, has a metallic ground plane providing the virtual 2nd conductor and the
coaxial line cable is adapted in printed circuit version as Stripline. The attention on the fact
that these microstrip structures can be used as radiator for electromagnetics wave got in
1950s. First in year the 1953 Deschamps introduces the concept of microstrip radiators[1]. In
1955 a patent on the name of Gutton and Baissinot was issued in France [2, 3]. After getting
the concept of microstrip radiator about 20 year a practical microstrip antenna was fabricated.
Earlier these microstrip radiators were limited in the laboratories no commercial antennas are
available at that time due to high loss and poor radiation. One of the reasons was
unavailability of good dielectric material with minimum loss tangent which can use as
substrate and can radiate efficiently. At that time stripline got more attention due to easy to
design, analysis and suitable to microwave planar structure and it also allows transverse
electromagnetic wave (TEM) [3]. In 1955 R. M. Barret commented that “advantages of
stripline and microstrip line are essentially the advantage of coaxial and twin wire
transmission line”[5]. May be these were some reasons microstrip radiators didn’t get the
instant attention in that period.

The research on microstrip

radiator got attention when some good dielectric material were found with better thermal and
mechanical properties has a low loss tangent. In 1969 Denlinger found the microstrip
radiators with rectangular and circular shape could be able to radiate efficiently [6].

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Researchers had found previously that the half of the input power would escape in microstrip
radiator as a radiation. Denlinger found the mechanism behind the radiation that if microstrip
line is left open ended at the end this discontinuity will cause the electromagnetic waves to
arise from the each open end. It was realized that the radiations will be more from the
discontinuity when these are separated by half of wavelength distance or a multiple of that
long to each other. It was also realized that the amount of power radiated from the open ends
will increase if the height of the dielectric substrate increases. Denlinger noted that by
increasing the height of substrate microstrip radiators was able to radiate the 70% of power
available. He also carried his research on circular microstrip radiators and found that it was
possible to attain up to 75% of radiation from a circular microstrip radiators. Microstrip
radiators were now termed as microstrip antenna. One of the major benefit of microstrip
antenna is that they are very comfy to planar and nonplanar surfaces can be easily mounted
on that. This was the main reason that the microstrip antenna acquired the serious attention to
the researchers in early 1970s when high performance application such as aircraft, spacecraft,
missile, satellite communication put the motivation for researchers to investigate on
usefulness of conformal microstrip antennas. After about 2 years Howell introduced a basic
rectangular shape microstrip antenna that was fed using the microstrip transmission line. In
that days microstrip antenna was a major focus for investigators. Researchers introduced
many various designs. But it was difficult to get the better radiation efficiency that was
limited upto 90%. Narrow bandwidth was also a severe problem for microstrip antenna. By
1981 research and study of microstrip antenna got a drift when IEEE made the microstrip
antenna a special issue in the IEEE Transaction on Antenna and propagation[7].

3.2 Microstrip Antenna

In a most basic form a microstrip antenna comprises of

two thin metallic layers (t˂˂ ) one as radiating
patch and second as groundplane and a dielectric substrate sandwiched between them. The
conductor patch is placed on the dielectric substrate and used as radiating element. On the
other side of the substrate there is a conductive layer used as ground plane. Copper and gold
is used normally as a metallic layer. Radiating patch can be of any shape but simple shapes
are used to design a patch because patches basic shapes are easy to analysis by the available
theoretical models and it is easy to predict the performance. Square, rectangular, dipole,
triangular, elliptical, circular are some basic shapes. Circular, rectangular and dipole are the
most often used shapes because of easy of analysis and fabrication. A variety of dielectric

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materials are available for the substrate with dielectric constants 2.2≤ ≥ 12[8]. The height
of substrate plays an important role in antenna characteristics generally are in the range
0.003 ≤ ≥ 0.05 .

Figure 3. 1 Microstrip Patch Antenna

Figure 3. 2 Side view of Microstrip Patch Antenna

Microstrip antenna suffers from very Narrow

frequency bandwidth. However some application where narrow bandwidth is essential such
as government security systems, microstrip antennas are useful. Bandwidth of microstrip
antenna is directly proportional to height of substrate. There are two main techniques two
improve the bandwidth; one circuit theory and second structural.

An antenna characteristics is not only

depends on the antenna element but also be influenced by the TX-line and antenna
combination. Generally the input impedance of microstrip antenna is complex and the
characteristic impedance of TX-line is real (usually 50 ohm). This will results in impedance
mismatching and causes a voltage standing wave pattern on transmission line results in low
impedance bandwidth. One way to overcome this problem is use of impedance matching

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networks between antenna and transmission line. There are several impedance matching
techniques are available, Circuit theory deals with the impedance matching techniques.

Structural technique deals with the modification of

substrate properties such as height and dielectric constant. By increasing the height we can
increase the bandwidth. But it will also introduce surface waves which increases loss of the
power and leads to performance and characteristics degradation. Various types of methods
are introduced by the researchers such as stacking, defected ground plane, parasitic patches
and improvement of bandwidth of microstrip antenna is still an interesting topic for
investigation. By choosing a particular shape one can easily design an antenna with desired
resonance frequency radiation pattern, polarization. It is easy to design a microstrip antenna
with reconfigurable polarization, resonance frequency and radiation patterns just by adding
loads like PIN diode, Varacter diodes.

3.3 Radiation mechanism

In 1969 denlinger noted that if the

microstrip line left open ended on one end and fed on the other end then due to the
discontinuity created some part of the power is radiated in the space from both the ends as
electromagnetic waves. Denlinger also realized that the amount of power radiated in space is
maximum when both the discontinuities kept a half wavelength or a multiple of half of
wavelength apart from each other[6]. Denlinger concluded that radiations took place from the
open end due to the fringing fields arising from the discontinuity. To understanding the
mechanism behind the radiation from microstrip antenna considers a rectangular antenna with
a half wavelength long radiating patch fed by microstrip feed line. A rectangular antenna can
be considered as a microstrip line left open ended on one side and energy is fed from the
other end. Since the patch is half wavelength long and left open ended on other side, the
current at the corners (at the beginning and end) of the patch should be zero and is maximum
at the centre of the patch. Current and voltage will be 90 degree out of phase. The voltage
will be maximum positive at the beginning and maximum negative at the end of patch[9].

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 Figure 3. 3 Current and voltage variation along the Patch length

Field distribution along the patch is like shown in figure below. The field lines are below the
patch towards corner are opposite in direction. This field lines does not stop abruptly ant the
end. At the corners fringing fields are created and the field lines are in bow shape. More the
fringing field bow more the radiation. Therefore these fringing are the reason behind the
radiation from the microstrip antenna.

Figure 3. 4 Fringing fields

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3.4 Advantages and Disadvantages:

Microstrip antenna is a low profile antenna that

has light weight and is very easy to installation due to which it is very popular in handheld
wireless devices such as cell phones, pagers and in some high performance communication
systems such as in satellite, missile, spacecraft, aircraft etc. Some of the major advantages of
microstrip antenna as discussed by Randy Bancroft [3] and Garg [10] are given below:

 Inexpensive and easy to fabricate.

 Can be planted easily on any surface.
 Can easily get reconfigurable characteristics.
 Can easily design antenna with desired polarization.
 Mechanically robust, Resistant against vibration and shock.
 Suitable to microwave integrated circuits (MICs).
 For high gain and directivity Array of antennas can be easily formed.

Conversely microstrip antennas also have

a number of disadvantages and limitations when compared to other antennas. Some of the
major disadvantages of microstrip antennas are written below:

 High quality factor.

 Cross polarization.
 Poor polarization efficiency.
 Suffers from spurious feed radiation.
 Narrow impedance bandwidth (5% to 10% without any technique)
 High Dielectric and conductor losses.
 Sensitive to environment conditions like temperature and humidity.
 Suffers from surface wave when high dielectric constant material is used.
 Low gain and power handling capability.
There are various methods to overcome this limitations, bandwidth of microstrip antenna
can be increase by using some special methods like defected ground plane strategy, stacked

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patches, slotted patches, parasitic patch. Gain and the power handling ability of antenna can
be improved by making an antenna array. Use of Electromagnetic Band Gap (EBG) structure
and metamaterial also results in the improvement of the antenna characteristics[20].

3.5 Applications

After a number of limitations due to the several advantages microstrip

antenna found very useful in different applications. Microstrip antenna widely used in the
defence systems like missiles, aircraft, satellites and rockets. Now a day’s microstrip antenna
is used in commercial sectors due to its inexpensiveness and easy to manufacture benefit by
advanced printed circuit technology. Due to the development and ongoing research in the
area of microstrip antenna it is expected that in future after some time most of the
conventional antenna will be replaced by microstrip antenna. Some of the major applications
of microstrip antennas are:

 Mobile Communication:-

Antenna used in mobile applications should be light weight,

small size. Microstrip antenna possesses this entire requirement. The most of mobile
applications are handheld gadgets or pocket size equipment, cellular phones, UHF pagers and
the radar applications in vehicles like car, planes, and ships. Various types of designs are
made and used for radar applications like marine radar, radar for surveillance and for remote
sensing.

 Satellite Communication :-

In satellite communication antenna should have the circular

polarization. One of the major benefit of microstrip antenna is that one can easily design an
antenna with require polarization by using dual feed networks and different techniques.
Parabolic antennas are used in satellite communication to broadcasting from satellite. A flat
microstrip antenna array can be used in the place of parabolic reflector.

 Global Positioning System :-

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 Initially the satellite based GPS system are used for only in
military purposes but now a day’s GPS found a large application in everyone’s life and now
used commercially. GPS found an essential requirement in vehicles, ships and planes to track
the exact location and position. 24 satellites are working in GPS encircling the earth in every
12 hours at altitude 20,200 km. GPS satellite using two frequencies in L-band to transmit the
signal which is received by thousands of receivers on earth. The receiver antenna should be
circularly polarized. An omnidirectional microstrip antenna has wide beam and low gain can
be easily design with dual frequency operation in L-band.

 Direct Broadcast Satellite System:-

In many countries direct broadcasting system is used

to provide the television services. A high gain (~33db) antenna should be used at the
ground by the user side. A parabolic reflector antennas are generally used are bulky
requires space and affected by snow and rain. An array of circularly polarized microstrip
antenna can be used for direct broadcasting reception. Which are easy to install, has less
affect from snow and rain and cheaper also.

 Antenna for Pedestrian:-

For pedestrian applications antenna should be as small as

possible due to space constraints. Low profile, light weight and small structure antennas
are generally used in the handheld pocket equipment. Microstrip antenna is the best
candidate for that. Various types of techniques can be used to reducing the size of antenna
like short circuiting the patch or using the high dielectric constant material. But it has a
drawback that smaller antenna leads to poorer efficiency.

 In Radar Applications :-

Radar application such as Manpack radar, Marine

radar and Secondary surveillance radar requires antenna with appropriate gain and
beamwidth. An array of microstrip antenna with desired gain and desired beamwidth can
be used. For some application such as sensing the ocean wave speed and direction and for

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determining the ground soil grades Synthetic Aperture radar method is used. Two arrays
of patch antennas separated by a proper distance are used in this system.

 Application in Medical Science:-

In medical science for treating the malignant tumors

microwave energy is used to induce hyperthermia. The microwave energy radiator used
for this should be adaptable to the surface being treated and should be light weight.
Microstrip patch antenna is the only one that can fulfil that requirement. Annular ring and
circular disk microstrip antenna are some examples. A half circular flexible patch
monopole microstrip applicator used is shown in figure below. Figure shows the
geometry of the applicator that how it is conform on the curved surfaces[11].

Figure 3. 5 Microstrip applicator used for hyperthermia application

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3.6 Feeding Techniques

Various types of feeding techniques are available to feed

microstrip antenna. Each of them has their own merits or demerits. A number of factors are
used to choose which type of feeding is suitable for the designed antenna. The main
consideration is effectual power transfer from feed line to the antenna radiating element that
is proper matching between the feed and antenna. Various techniques like impedance
transformer, stubs are used for impedance matching. Feed structure should like that these
matching structure could be fabricated with radiating element easily. Spurious feed radiation
and surface wave losses are also the major factors which depend on the feeding methods
which affects the antenna characteristics. Surface waves decreases the efficiency of antenna
and spurious feed radiation results in undesired radiation which will give rise to side lobe
level and also increases level of cross polarization. Another main feature is that feed network
should be well-suited to make an array, feeding methods can be divide in two categories one
is contacting feeds and other one is non contacting feeds or electromagnetic coupled feed. In
contacting feeds the feed line is directly connected to radiating element. The main drawback
of contacting feeds are that it shows inherent asymmetry which produces the higher order
modes that leads to increase in cross polarization level. To minimize these noncontacting
feeds are used. Microstrip line feed and coaxial probe feeding are two mainly used direct
contact feedings and aperture coupled and proximity coupling are two noncontacting
couplings which are described in brief below:

3.6.1) Microstrip line feeding:-

In this type of feeding the radiating patch is directly fed

by the microstrip feed line has a narrow width as compare to patch. It is the simple and
mostly used feeding method. Because microstrip line can be treated as extended part of
radiating patch and fabricated on the same substrate on the board. This feeding simple to
fabricate and it’s easy to impedance matching techniques are very compatible with this type
of feed. But this feed also have some drawbacks, suffers from spurious feed radiation and
surface wave losses also has low bandwidth.

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 Figure 3. 6 Microstrip Patch Antenna

3.6.2) Coaxial probe feed:-

One of the widely used feeding for microstrip antenna. In this

type of feeding core of coaxial cable is directly connected to the patch using the soldering and
the outer cable is connected to the ground. Core conductor is inserted in the substrate via a
hole. The main advantage of this feeding is that we can directly feed or connect the inner
conductor to the feed point where the input impedance is equal to the characteristic
impedance of the feed line.

Figure 3. 7 Coaxial Probe Feed

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 3.6.3) Proximity coupled feed:-

Two types of dielectric substrates are used in this type

of feeding. Microstrip line is not directly connected to patch and left open ended and is
sandwiched between the substrates. Energy from feed line is coupled electromagnetic to the
radiating patch. The microstrip line can be extended as stub to increase the bandwidth.
Substrates dielectric constants play a lead role and selected to increase the bandwidth and
decrease the spurious feed radiations from the feed line. Thick Material with low dielectric
constant is selected for Upper substrates because lower the dielectric constant more the
fringing field and more the radiations from patch and thin substrate with high dielectric
constant is selected for lower substrate. This type of feeding has largest bandwidth as
compared to others. It is easy to model and has low spurious feed radiation however its
fabrication is more difficult because the exact alignment of feedline is required. The length of
the extended stub and width to line ratio of patch can be optimized to control the antenna
characteristics.

Figure 3. 8 Proximity Coupled Antenna

3.6.4) Aperture coupled feed:-

Structural view of this type of feeding is shown in

figure. As shown this feeding also uses two type of substrate ground plane is placed between
them and microstrip line is used generally to feed which is placed below the lower substrate.
As name suggests in aperture coupling feeding the energy is electromagnetically coupled to

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the patch through an aperture or slot made in the ground plane. Different types of aperture
shapes are used generally rectangular and circular shapes are widely used. Cross shaped and
annular ring shape slots are used for exciting the circular polarization. The parameters of slots
are used to improve the antenna characteristics. As in proximity coupled feeding substrates
dielectric constant is selected to get better radiation and bandwidth. Thick substrate with low
dielectric constant is used for the upper substrate to get the good radiation and bandwidth.
While thin and high dielectric constant material is used for the upper substrate to for efficient
transfer of energy from feedline to patch. To get the maximum coupling between feed
structure and the patch slot should be located at the place where the magnetic field is
maximum[16]. We know that from the current and voltage distribution along the patch
length, electric field is maximum at the ends and magnetic field is maximum at the centre of
the patch. The microstrip feed line is extended a length extra and is used as a stub. Stub
works as an open circuited transmission line has admittance is in parallel to that of the slot.
By optimizing the extended length of feedline (stub) the reactive components of slot can be
cancelled out to that of the stub that will result in better impedance matching.

Figure 3. 9 Aperture Coupling

The area of slot is kept small

to minimize the radiation below the ground plane. This type of feeding has better polarization
purity, low spurious feed radiation and large bandwidth as compared to microstrip and
coaxial probe feeding. The equivalent circuit for each of them is shown in figure below.

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Figure 3. 10 Equivalent Circuit for Feeding Techniques

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 Chapter 4

Rectangular and Circular Microstrip Antenna

4.1) Rectangular Microstrip Antenna

The rectangular microstrip patch is probably the
most common designed antenna. The figure shows a normal rectangular patch antenna. Here
a designer has two degree of freedom length and width of patch. The metallic patch is
separated from the ground plane by a fraction of wavelength distance above by the dielectric
substrate. The field varies over the length are shown. The fringing fields are coming out from
the two edges are referred as radiating edges and other two edges as nonradiating edges.

Figure 4. 1Rectangular Patch Antenna

Patch shown in figure has length b and width a. The patch antenna is fed by using coaxial line
feed and the feed point is on the middle line on the patch y’ distance apart along the length b.

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4.1.1) Methods of Analysis:
A number of methods are available for analysing the microstrip
antenna. Two mostly used models are named below. Transmission line model is easiest one
and provides a simple physical implementation of the antenna but is less accurate, While the
Cavity model is difficult but more accurate.

 Transmission Line Model

 Cavity Model

4.1.1a) Transmission Line Model:

The transmission line model treated rectangular microstrip as a part
of transmission line. As the rectangular microstrip antenna consists two radiating slots,
transmission line model represents each radiating slots by an equivalent admittance which are
separated by a distance equal to the length. The resistive part of them represents the radiation
loss from the each slots. At the resonance the reactive part of the input impedance cancelled
out and the input impedance become pure resistive. Transmission line model consider the
effects of various parameters described below.

a. Fringing Field :
The fringing field in rectangular microstrip antenna arises from the
radiating edges shown in the figure below. Fringing field are mainly depends on the dielectric
constant and length L to height h ratio. Since in most of the cases the L/h ratio is << 1
therefore the fringing fields are less.

Figure 4. 2 Fringing Field Effect

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 Higher dielectric constant substrate leads to bounded
electric fields more enclosed in the substrate as used in the microstrip lines. While the lower
dielectric constants substrates results in loosely bounded electric fields means they will go
more further from the patch. Lesser the dielectric constant material used in substrate more
bowed the fringing fields. We know that the fringing fields are responsible for the radiations
from microstrip antenna. Therefore lower dielectric constant more the fringing fields and
more the radiations leads to better efficiency and better antenna performance. From figure it
can be seen that fringing fields lines are not only enclosed in substrate but also go further out
in the air. As the field lines travels in substrate and air also we have to calculate an Effective
Dielectric constant by taking the air also in account.

Figure 4. 3 Effective Dielectric Constant

The effective dielectric constant is a

dielectric constant of the material for which the antenna characteristics are same as for the
real one. The range of effective dielectric constant varies from 1˃ ˂ . In most cases the
value is close to . If the air is used as a substrate then the effective dielectric constant
is equal to dielectric constant = . The is also depends on frequency. As the
operating frequency increases the value of effective dielectric constant reaches to the real
value of dielectric material used. Graph below showing the variation of effective dielectric
constant with the frequency below. For the lower frequency the effective dielectric constant
does not varies but as the frequency increases the effective dielectric constant approaches
towards the actual dielectric constant of substrate material.

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 Figure 4. 4 Dielectric Constant Vs Frequency curve

The for W/h>1 can be given as

⁄
= + ( )

b. Effect of fringing fields on Length:

Due to the fringing field coming out

from the radiating slots the actual length of rectangular patch is more than the physical
length. Then we have to introduce a length extension factor. This is in the case when mode
are generated along the length or linear polarization is made. Length extension should also be
consider when fields are generated by radiating edges along width. The best approximated
value of this length extension normalized to dielectric material height can be given by
formula

Figure 4. 5 Length Extension

⁄
⁄

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This value mainly depends on the effective dielectric constant and the width to height
ratio. Due to this length extension length of patch is about 0.48λ rather than 0.5λ. Therefore
to get the actual physical length of the patch equal to λ/2 we have consider the extension on
both the ends and that is,

As we know for dominant mode the length pf patch is equal to λ/2 therefore the
is given by

=
√

Where is the velocity of light in free space and is the resonance frequency
for which antenna is to be design.

c. Patch Width:

For the dominant mode there is no fringing

fields along the width therefore there is no need to consider the effective dielectric constant.
Width of the patch can be calculated by this formula

d. Resonance Frequency
For the dominant mode the antenna resonates
(without taking fringing into account) at the frequency given by

=
√

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And when considering the effective length and effective dielectric constant the antenna will
radiate at the frequency

=
√

e. Input Impedance:

It is important for the perfect impedance matching to find the

point along with the patch dimension where the input impedance is equal to that of that of the
feedline referred as Feed point or Driving point. The input impedance at feed point or driving
point is known as Driving Point Impedance. The current and voltage distribution over the
patch length is shown in figure. Voltage is maximum at the corners and current is maximum
at the centre. As we know that the resistance is the ratio of voltage and current. Therefore the
resistance will be maximum at the corners and minimum at the centre.

Input impedance of the rectangular patch antenna

along the centre line at any point can be determined by the transmission line model. The
transmission line model for rectangular patch antenna is shown in figure. Each radiating edge
is shown by parallel equivalent admittance and are separated by a distance equal to length
L = ⁄ . The edge admittance consist equivalent conductance and susceptance . The
feed point is located distance away from edge. Input admittance at the end of a L
length long transmission line with characteristic admittance can be given by equation

Where  is the phase constant. Using the above

equation the input impedance at the driving point can be expressed by:

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 The total input admittance at the corner of patch is:

=
Where,

Approximated values of and can be given by

=0.00836

=0.01668

At the resonance the imaginary parts of the edge admittance are equal and out of
phase and they will cancel out each other. So the total input admittance at the edge at
resonance become real and is equal to

=
So at the resonance the total input impedance become pure real.

When we consider the mutual conductance into account then the input resistance will become

∫ [ ]

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Using the model expansion analysis the input resistance at a point away from the edge of
patch along the centre line can be calculated by the formula:

A graph below shows that the input impedance of the rectangular patch antenna varies
according to square of cosine, which shows that the input resistance is maximum at the corner
of patch and it is zero at the centre of patch.

Figure 4. 6 Normalized Input Resistance

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4.1.1b) Cavity Modal
The cavity model first described by Lo et al. in late 1970s. As
the name says Cavity model treated the rectangular patch antenna as a cavity with electric
walls above and below at metallic patch and ground plane, and magnetic walls along the
edges of patch [14,15]. The field under the patch is the summation of the resonance modes
created by these radiating walls. The cavity model based on the assumption that only z-axis
component of electric field and x and y axis components of magnetic field exist. A simple
rectangular antenna used for the calculation in cavity model is shown in figure.

Figure 4. 7 Rectangular Patch for cavity Model

The electric field below the patch at a point x,y can be given by expression below:

∑∑

( )

( ) ( )

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Due to the fringing fields the cavity walls are somewhat larger than the actual length.
Therefore by considering the fringing effects from edges the length and width becomes:

( ) ( )

The driving or feed point impedance at a point x,y can be given by

∑ ∑

( ) ( ) ( )

where is width of feedline cable

The effective loss tangent related to dielectric loss, conduction loss, radiation loss and surface
wave loss

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 ( )

here refers to energy stored

The radiated power ⌊ ( ) ( )⌋

( )

( )

The in form of radiation quality factor

Where

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 ⁄
( )

√ ( )

( )

√ √

√
( √ )
√
[ ]
√

The cavity model is more accurate as compared to transmission line model but it is based on
many assumptions and approximations that is effective only for electrically thin substrate.

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4.2)Circular Microstrip Antenna

Circular patch is the second most widely used

geometry for the microstrip patch antenna. As in rectangular microstrip antenna we have two
degree of freedom (length and width) to control the antenna characteristics, here we have
only radius of circular patch. A circular microstrip antenna is shown in figure below.

Figure 4. 8 Circular Patch Antenna

As shown in figure Metallic Circular patch with radius a is placed a height h above the
ground plane. Dielectric substrate separates the patch and ground plane and the patch is fed at
a point r distance from the centre at a angle  from the x-axis. The circular patch antenna can
be analysis by considering the patch as a cavity with two perfect conductor electric wall
above and below (patch and ground plane) and magnetic walls along the edges. The electric
field below the circular patch can be given by:

And the magnetic field components can be given by:

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Where,
k = propagation constant

The resonance frequency related to TM mode can be given as:

Where
= mth zero of derivative of Bessel’s function of nth order
C = velocity of light in free space
= effective radius of circular patch

⁄
[ ( { } )]

for a\h >> 1

and the actual radius of patch can be determined by

⁄
[ ( { } )]
√

Therefore radius of circular patch can be found using above equation. The first four Bessel
function zeroes are:

Table 4. 1 Bessel Function values

1,1 2,1 0,2 3,1

1.84118 3.05424 3.83171 4.20119

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 Chapter 5

Ultra Wide Band Antennas

After declaring the ultra-wide band (UWB) from

frequency band 3.1 to 10.6 GHz by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 2002 for
the use of indoor and hand-held systems, Ultra-wideband (UWB) antennas have gained so
much of interest by the researchers[17]. For an antenna to be considered ultra wideband
(UWB) or not there are two criteria available on the basis of fractional bandwidth. One
definition (by Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency report) requires an antenna to
have fractional bandwidth greater than 0.25. An alternate and more recent definition by
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) places the limit at 0.2.

BW {

The major disadvantage of microstrip antenna is narrow bandwidth. For the enhancement of
impedance bandwidth, several types of techniques such as uses of high value dielectric
constant[8], parasitic coupled patches[19], defected patch structure, use of metamaterial[20],
stacked structure [18]and using a matching network for proper impedance matching[21] have
been reported. Here in the proposed designs for broadening the impedance bandwidth of the
antennas defected ground plane strategy is used. In some designs circular shape partial
ground plane with an elliptical notch is used. Some designs have partial ground plane with
curvy edges and a narrow rectangular slit is also used.

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5.1)Design 1
Modified Circular Patch Antenna for UWB application
The designed antenna has two half circular patches which are overlapped to each other. A
narrow rectangular slit is added to the patch to improve the performance of antenna. The
proposed antenna is fabricated on an inexpensive and easily available dielectric material FR-4
with permeability of 4.4.

5.1.1)Antenna design and parameters:

Figure 5.1. 1 Front and Back View and Fabricated Antenna

Table 5.1 Dimensions of the Proposed 1st Design

Parameters Description Value

r Radius of half circular patch 9.5
a Overlapping length 4
Lf Length of feedline 10
Wf Width of feedline 3.058
Lstub Length of stub 0.7
Wstub Width of stub 8
Lsub Length of substrate 29.8
Wsub Width of substrate 12.6

Proposed microstrip antenna is fed by standard 50ohm microstrip feed line. Different
parameters with their Optimized value of the proposed antenna are listed below in table:

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 5.1.2) Simulation Results:

A circular shape partial ground plane is used in the design. To increase the bandwidth of
antenna defected ground plane strategy is used. An elliptical notch is created in the ground
plane, major axis and minor axis radius of which is x=1.6 and y=3.1 respectively. The s11 vs
frequency curve for the optimized parameters is shown below.

Figure 5.1. 2 frequency vs s11 curve for optimized values

The effect of modifying the radius of patch effect on s11 parameter is observed. Figure below
shows different s11 vs frequency curve for different values of radius r. It is observed that
when we increase the radius the s11 vs frequency curve shifts towards lower frequency while
on decreasing it shifts toward right. Therefore we can conclude that the two resonance
frequencies we are getting are inversely proportional to the radius of the circular patch. It is
also observed that for optimum value of radius r=9 the s11 is more deep.

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radius r

Figure 5.1. 3 frequency vs s11 curve for different values of radius r

The overlapping of circular patches also affects the antenna characteristics

and the value of overlapping length a is manually optimized. Figure shows s11 results for
different value of a.

Figure 5.1. 4 frequency vs s11 curve for different values of a

From the results it is clear that when the

overlapping of the patches increases or decreases from its optimum value a=4 the s11 vs
frequency curve shift upward.

The figures below showing the antenna radiation pattern with principal E-plane and H-plane
for different frequencies.

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 Figure 5.1. 5 Radiation Pattern for frequency 3.63, 7.63 and 9.3 respectively.

We can observe that the H-Plane patterns are omnidirectional and the E-Plane patterns have
dumble shape pattern.

Figure below showing the Gain vs frequency curve. Antenna have maximum gain at 12 GHz
4.2 dB and minimum -5.6 dB and -1.1 dB at 2 GHz and 10 GHz respectively.

Figure 5.1. 6 Realized Gain vs Frequency plot

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5.2)Design 2
Elliptical Shape Microstrip Patch Antenna with Modified Groundplane
The second design is elliptical patch antenna with modified ground plane. FR-4
dielectric material is used as substrate with dielectric constant 4.4. Standard 50 ohm
microstrip feedline is used to feed. The results show that the proposed antenna has the
bandwidth (vswr=2) from 2.46 Ghz to 13.62 Ghz which covers the UWB band therefore the
proposed antenna is a good candidate to be used for the UWB application. Partial ground
plane is used here. For increasing the bandwidth as a ground plane strategy a rectangular
notch and a narrow slit is made in the ground plane.

5.2.1) Antenna design and parameters:

The front and back view of the proposed antenna is shown

below. Structural view showing all the antenna parameters. Partial ground plane with curvy
edges is used. Making a rectangular notch behind the feedline in ground plane and narrow
rectangular slit in ground results in drastically improvement in the return loss curve.

figure 5.2. 1 front and back view of proposed antenna

Parameter list with their values are written in the table below. All the dimensions are in
millimetre.

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 Table 5.2 Dimensions of the Proposed 2nd Design

Parameters Description Optimized Value

X Minor radius of ellipse 9
Y Major radius of ellipse 13
Lf Length of the feedline 10
Wf Width of the feedline 3.058
Lsub Length of the substrate 38.6
Wsub Width of the substrate 25.2
a Length of notch 3.4
b Width of notch 3.858
L1 Length of rectangular slit 8
W1 Width of rectangular slit 0.5
5.2.2) Simulation Results:

The Graph below showing that how the return loss curve is improved by
making a number of modifications in the ground plane.

figure 5.2. 2 Return loss curve for different modifications in ground.

Where,
= of antenna with rectangular partial ground plane.
= of antenna with partial ground plane with curve at edges.
= of antenna with partial ground plane with curve at edges and notch.
= of antenna with partial ground plane with curve at edges, notch and slit.

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From graphs it can be observe that making the edges of rectangular ground plane smooth will
not affect the return loss curve in lower frequency but at higher frequency it improves the
return loss curve, the return loss curve shifts downside. By making a rectangular notch in
ground plane just below the feedline results in drastically increase in the bandwidth. By
introducing a narrow rectangular slit curve moves further downside.

The return loss curve for different

position of rectangular slit related to centre line is also observed. It is observed that changing
the relative position of the slit not affects so much in lower frequency but effects on higher
frequency.

figure 5.2. 3 Return loss curve for different position of slit.

Effect of length and width of

rectangular notch on the return loss curve is also shown in figure.

figure 5.2. 4 Return loss curve for different value of notch length b

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 figure 5.2. 5 Return loss curve for different value of notch width a

From the above two graphs it is observed that the effect of notch dimension on return loss
curve is more for the higher frequency as compared to lower frequencies. The radiation
pattern of proposed antenna for different frequency is shown below. The H-plane pattern is
shown in the broad side direction which are almost omnidirectional and E-plane patterns have
lobes shown in figure.

figure 5.2. 6 Radiation Pattern for frequency 5.58, 8.56 and 10 respectively.

The realized gain plot are shown below, With maximum 4dB at 11GHz and minimum -4dB
at 8GHz.

figure 5.2. 7 Realized Gain vs Frequency plot

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5.3)Design 3
Extended Circular Planar Antenna For UWB application
The proposed antenna geometry is shown in the figure. Design consists of a half circular
patch which is extended an extra length. Antenna is fabricated on FR-4 material and
microstrip feed line is used for feeding. A circular shape partial ground plane is used with an
elliptical notch just below the feedline. The simulation results show that the antenna fulfils
the requirement of UWB antenna.

5.3.1) Antenna design and parameters:

Figure 5.3. 1 front and back view of proposed antenna

Parameter list with their values are written in the table below. All the dimensions are in
millimetre.

Table 5. 3 Dimensions of the Proposed 3rd Design

Parameters Description value

r Radius of circular patch 9.5
a Patch Extension 6
X X-radius of elliptical Notch 1.6
Y Y-radius of elliptical Notch 3.1
Lf Length of Feedline 10
Wf Width of Feedline 3.058
Wsub Width of Substrate 26.6
Lsub Length of Substrate 29.3

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 5.3.2) Simulation Results:

The s11 vs frequency curve with the optimized values is shown below. This shows that the
proposed antenna covers the entire UWB.

Figure 5.3. 2 Return loss vs frequency curve of proposed antenna.

Variation in the return loss curve with the patch extension length a is also observed. Figure
below shows the return loss curve for different values of a.

Figure 5.3. 3 Return loss vs frequency curve for different values of a.

Radiation pattern with principal E-plane and H-plane for the different frequencies are shown
in figure.

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 Figure 5.3. 4 Radiation Pattern for frequency 3.63, 7.45 and 11.03 respectively.

The realized gain plot are shown below with maximum 5db at 12 Ghz and minimum 0.2 dB
and -5dB at 10 and 2 GHz respectively.

Figure 5.3. 5 Realized Gain vs Frequency plot

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5.4)Design 4
Candy Shape Microstrip Patch Antenna With Modified Groundplane
This design consists of a candy shape patch. Fabricated on FR-4 substrate material and
standard microstrip feedline is used for feeding. In order to get greater bandwidth modified
ground plane with a rectangular notch below the feedline and a rectangular slit on the ground
plane is used in the proposed design. The structural diagram of front and back view of
antenna is shown below.

5.4.1) Antenna design and parameters:

Figure 5.4. 1 Structural diagram of antenna

Different Parameters used, with their values are written in the table below. All the dimensions
are in millimetre.

Table 5. 4 Dimensions of the Proposed 4th Design

Parameter Description value

r Radius of the circles 9
a Distance between circles center 4
x Lower radius of ellipse 4.1
y Larger radius of ellipse 6.8
Lf Length of Feedline 10
Wf Width of Feedline 3.058
Lsub Length of substrate 35.6
Wsub Width of substrate 25.2
b Length of notch 2.1
a Width of notch 4

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 5.4.2) Simulation Results:

The return loss curve of designed antenna is shown.

Figure 5.4. 2 Return loss vs frequency curve of proposed antenna.

Effect of the length a on the return loss curve is observed. The plot shown below shows the
return loss curves for different values of a. It is seen that the effect of length a is lesser as
compared to lower and higher frequency.

Figure 5.4. 3 Return loss vs frequency curve for different values of a

The effect of the position of rectangular slit with respect to centre line is also observed. Plot
below shows the return loss curves for different value of the position d of slit. It is seen that
the effect of d on return loss curve is less at the lower frequency and more at the higher
frequencies.

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 Figure 5.4. 4 Return loss vs frequency curve for different values of d

Farfield Radiation pattern with principal E-plane and H-plane for the different frequencies are
shown in figure below. We can observe that the H-Plane patterns are omnidirectional and the
E-Plane patterns have dumble shape pattern.

Figure 5.4. 5 Radiation Pattern for frequency 3.284, 9.06 and 11.434 respectively.

The realized gain plot are shown below. It can be observe that the antenna has maximum
gain 4dB at 12 GHz and -2.8 dB minimum at 9 GHz.

Figure 5.4. 6 Realized Gain vs Frequency plot

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 Chapter 6

Band Notch Ultra Wide Band Antennas

A number of applications are there which exist

between the UWB frequency bands. One of the major problem for UWB systems are
electromagnetic interference (EMI) from existing frequency bands, because there are many
other wireless narrowband application that are allocated for different frequencies band in the
UWB band, such as

 (WiMAX) operating in 3.3-3.7 GHz,

 (WLAN) for IEEE 802.11a 5.15-5.825 GHz,
 Downlink X-band satellite communication systems in 7.25 - 7.75 GHz.
 4.5-4.8 GHz INSAT / Super-Extended C-Band (Indian National Satellite systems).

Therefore it is necessary for the designer to design the

UWB antenna they can reflect the interference from the other existing bands. To overcome
this interference problem UWB antennas should have band notches therefore they can reject
the existing frequency bands within the ultra-wide band. Recently different types of UWB
antennas having the wide bandwidth and band notch characteristics have been developed for
UWB applications [1-9]. The easiest and most common method to achieve a band notch is
making a narrow slot of different shapes into the radiating patch of the antenna, will affect
the current flow in the patch, as demonstrated in [24]–[25]. Different type of shapes is used to
make the slots (i.e., square ring and folded trapezoid, U-shape, C-shape) are used to get the
band-notched in the desired frequency band. In this chapter four compact UWB antenna
designs are proposed. One of the antennas has a wide bandwidth from 2.8GHz to 10.6GHz
with triple band notches for rejecting the WLAN, downlink X-band satellite communication
and INSAT/Super Extended C-band application respectively. A U-shape slot in the radiating
patch, an open end split ring slot in patch and two C-shaped slits are used to get the proper
band rejection. This proposed antenna structure’s simulation is carried out using the CAD
software Microwave Studio in Computer Simulation Technology Simulator (CST), one
commercial 3-D full-wave electromagnetic simulation software.

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6.1)Design 5
A Triple Band Notch Planar Antenna For UWB Application
A half circular extended patch antenna with triple band notch characteristic for WLAN
802.11a operating in 5.15-5.85 GHz, INSAT/Super Extended C-band application (Indian
National Satellite System) 4.5 to 4.8 GHz and downlink X-band satellite communication
7.25-7.75 GHz is presented. The structural diagram of front and back view of proposed
antenna is shown below.

6.1.1) Antenna design and parameters:

Figure 6.1. 1 front and back view of proposed antenna

As shown in figure for increasing the bandwidth of antenna a

circular shape partial ground is used. An elliptical notch as a defected ground plane strategy
is created in the ground plane. By creating a U-slot in transmission line first band notch 5.15–
5.825 GHz for WLAN system is achieved. To reject the frequency band of 7.25–7.75 GHz
two C-shaped slits are symmetrically placed besides the transmission line and to achieve
band notch for 4.5-4.8 an open end ring is etched from patch. To get the band notch
associated with the ring or U-slot or C-shape slit the dimensions and the relative positions has
been carefully observed.

The figure below shows the dimensions of the C-

shape slit and the U-slot made in the microstrip transmission line. This C-shape slits are

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placed very nearer to microstrip lines, just 0.271 mm besides. The spacing between the
feedline and slit affects the antenna performance.

Figure 6.1. 2 U-Slot and C-shape slit

Different antenna dimensions with their descriptions and optimized values are written below
in the table. All the dimensions are in millimetre.

Table 6. 1 Dimensions of the Proposed 5th Design

Parameter Description Value

R Radius of circular patch 9.5
r Radius of inner ring 4.1
r1 Width of the ring 0.6
a Extended circular patch 6
X x-radius of elliptical notch 1.6
Y y-radius of elliptical notch 3.1
Lf Length of feedline 10
Wf Width of feedline 3.058
Lsub Length of substrate 30.25
Wsub Width of substrate 28.50

6.1.2) Simulation Results:

The vswr vs frequency curve for the proposed antenna with

optimized parameters is shown below. We can observe from the plot that the antenna

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possesses three exact band notches or rejection of frequency band for three applications 4.5 to
4.8 GHz, 5.15 to 5.85 GHz and 7.25 to 7.75 GHz.

Figure 6.1. 3 VSWR vs frequency curve of Proposed Antenna.

The effect of the relative position of C-shape slit with respect to microstrip feed line is also
observed. Below graph shows the comparison of different vswr curves for different values of
spacing s between slits and feedline.

Figure 6.1. 4 VSWR vs frequency curve for different values of s spacing between slits and feed line

By plot we can conclude that the C-shape

slits which responsible for band notch 7.25 to 7.75 GHz does not have so much effect on the
notches created on the other two bands. Plot below shows vswr curve for the different radius
of annular ring. It is observed that the effect of varying the radius of ring on other notches is

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negligible. It only shifts the notch frequencies that are introduce due to the annular ring
notch.

Figure 6.1. 5 VSWR vs frequency curve for different radius r of annular ring.

The plots below showing the effect of changing the dimensions length L1 and width w1 of U-
shape notch on the vswr curve. We can conclude that by observing the vswr plot for different
dimensions the modification only affects the frequency notch that are responsible by the
notch and slit dimension.

Figure 6.1. 6 VSWR vs frequency curve for different length L1 of U-shape notch.

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 Figure 6.1. 7 VSWR vs frequency curve for different Width w1 of U-shape notch.

The Simulated results are presented, shows the usefulness of the proposed antenna structure
for UWB applications. The simulation results indicate that the proposed antenna fulfils the
excellent triple band notch characteristics for various frequency bands and showing the good
return loss and radiation patters in the interested UWB. To get the proper band rejection the
length, width and the relative positions of the slits are optimized carefully.The radiation
patterns and surface current distribution for different notch frequencies are shown in below
figure.

Figure 6.1. 8 Radiation pattern and Surface current distribution at 4.7GHz

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 Figure 6.1. 9 Radiation pattern and Surface current distribution at 5.6GHz

Figure 6.1. 10 Radiation pattern and Surface current distribution at 7.5GHz

It can be observe that the surface current is concentrated mainly on the notched that are
responsible for band rejection at that frequency. Realized gain of designed antenna is shown
in figure below, with minimum gain at the notch frequencies.

Figure 6.1. 11 Realized Gain vs Frequency plot

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6.2)Design 6
A Elliptical UWB Patch Antenna with Dual Notched Band
An elliptical shape microstrip antenna with dual band notch characteristic antenna suitable for
UWB application is proposed. Inverted U-shape slots are made in elliptical patch to get the
band notch for WIMAX application operating in frequency band 3.3GHz to 3.7GHz and to
achieve band rejection for the WLAN 802.11a band operating at frequency band 5.15 to 5.85
GHz, also an inverted U-shape slot is made in the transmission line. The simulation result
shows that the designed antenna has a bandwidth (vswr<2) 2.4GHz to 11.48GHz and is a
good candidate for UWB application. Figure below shows the structural diagram of designed
antenna for front and back view.

6.2.1) Antenna design and parameters:

Figure 6.2. 1 front and back view of proposed antenna and fabricated antenna.

As shown in figure partial ground plane with

smooth edges is used in proposed antenna. In order to increase the bandwidth of antenna
defect in ground plane is made by making a rectangular notch just below the feedline and by
making a narrow rectangular slit of width 0.5 in ground plane. Inverted U-slot responsible of
band notch for WLAN is shown below.

Different Parameters used, with their values are written in the table below. All the dimensions
are in millimetre.

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 Table 6. 2 Dimensions of the Proposed 6th Design

Parameter Description Value

X X-radius of elliptical patch 9
Y X-radius of elliptical patch 13
L1 Length of inverted U-slot 12
W1 Width of Inverted U-slot 10.4
L2 lower length Inverted of U-slot 10
W2 smaller width Inverted of U-slot 2.8
L3 Length of Inverted U-slot in feedline 8.5
W3 Width of Inverted U-slot in feedline 1.4
L4 Lower Length of Inverted U-slot in feedline 8.3
W4 Smaller width of Inverted U-slot in feedline 0.6
Lsub Length of substrate 38.6
Wsub Width of substrate 12.6
Ls Length of rectangular notch 3
Ws Width of rectangular notch 3.858

Figure 6.2. 2 Dimensions of inverted U-slot

6.2.2) Simulation Results:

The Return loss curve and vswr curve for the proposed antenna
is shown below. From simulation results it can be concluded that the antenna has bandwidth
for -10 return loss from 2.4 to 11.8 GHz rather than the two rejected band. Which shows the
antenna can be used for the UWB application.

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 Figure 6.2. 3 Return loss vs frequency curve of proposed antenna.

Figure 6.2. 4 VSWR vs frequency curve of proposed antenna.

The effect of the U-slot dimension on vswr curve is observed and shown below. The
comparison of different vswr curves for different value of length l1 and width w1 are shown
in figure below.

Figure 6.2. 5 VSWR vs frequency curve for different length L1 of U-shape notch.

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Figure 6.2. 6 VSWR vs frequency curve for different width W1 of U-shape notch.

Figure 6.2. 7 VSWR vs frequency curve for different width W3 of U-shape notch.

Figure 6.2. 8 VSWR vs frequency curve for different length L3 of U-shape notch.

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From the above plots it is seen that the effect of varying the dimension on vswr plot is
majorly on the notch frequency to which that dimension belongs to.

Figure 6.2. 9 Surface current distribution frequency at 3.47GHz and 5.54GHz

As we know that making defects and notches in the patch results in disturbance for current.
As we can observe from the above plots the current at 3.47 GHz is mainly focussed on the U-
slot on the patch and at 5.54 GHz it is focussed on the slots made on the microstrip feedline.
Radiation pattern for these two notch frequencies are shown in figure below.

Figure 6.2. 10 Radiation Pattern at frequency 3.47GHz and 5.54GHz

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 The realized gain vs frequency plot is shown in figure below plot shows that the antenna
has minimum gain at the notch frequency - 3.5dB at 3.6GHz and -12dB at 5.6 GHz.

Figure 6.2. 11 Realized Gain vs Frequency plot

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6.3)Design 7
Design of UWB Antenna with a Band-Notch for WIMAX
This deign consists of a candy bar shape patch with modified ground plane. Simulation
results shows that the proposed antenna covers entire ultra-wide band frequency range except
the band notch for the WIMAX application operating in frequency 3.3 GHz to 3.7 GHz. The
structural view of the antennas front and back view are shown below.

6.3.1) Antenna design and parameters:

Figure 6.3. 1 Front view and back view with parameters

Figure 6.3. 2 Fabricated antenna

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The antenna dimensions are listed in the table below.

Table 6. 3 Dimensions of the Proposed 7th Design

Parameter Description Value

r Radius of circle 9
a Circle overlapping length 4
l Length of U- slot 8
w Width of U-slot 8.5
lf Length of 10
Wf Width of 3.058
Lsub Length of 35.6
Wsub Width of 25.2

As shown in figure Partial ground plane is used in the design and a

narrow rectangular slit and a rectangular notch is made in the ground plane to increase the
bandwidth .In order to achieve the band rejection characteristic for WIMAX band an inverted
U-slot is made in patch. The vswr curve of the designed antenna with optimized parameters is
shown below.

6.3.2) Simulation Results:

Figure 6.3. 3 VSWR vs frequency curve of designed antenna.

The variation in vswr curve due to change in the slot dimensions length L1 and width W1 is
observed and shown in the below graph.

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Figure 6.3. 4 VSWR vs frequency curve for different length L1 of U-shape notch.

Figure 6.3. 5 VSWR vs frequency curve for different width w1 of U-shape notch.

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 Figure 6.3. 6 Surface current distribution at 3.622 GHz

The above figure shows Surface current distribution on the proposed antenna. It is observed
that the current is mainly concentrated along the U shape slot which is responsible for the
band rejection at this frequency. The radiation pattern of designed antenna at the notch
frequency is shown below.

Figure 6.3. 7 Radiation Pattern at 3.622 GHz

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The realized gain vs frequency plot is shown in figure below plot shows that the antenna has
minimum gain at the notch frequency.

Figure 6.3. 8 Realized Gain vs Frequency plot

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 Chapter 7

Conclusion and Future Work

7.1) Conclusion and Future Work:

This thesis describes seven different microstrip patch antenna designs with
different shapes. Four of them are designed for use in UWB application without any band
notches and three of them are designed to work in UWB with different band notches for
different applications like (WiMAX) operating in 3.3-3.7 GHz, (WLAN) for IEEE 802.11a
5.15-5.825 GHz, Downlink X-band satellite communication systems in 7.25 - 7.75 GHz.4.5-
4.8 GHz INSAT / Super-Extended C-Band (Indian National Satellite systems). The easiest
and most common method to achieve a band notch is making a narrow slot of different
shapes into the radiating patch of the antenna, will affect the current flow in the patch,
different type of shapes is used to make the slots are used to get the band-notched in the
desired frequency band. These proposed antenna structure’s simulation is carried out using
the CAD software Microwave Studio in Computer Simulation Technology Simulator (CST),
one commercial 3-D full-wave electromagnetic simulation software. The Simulated results
are presented, shows the usefulness of the proposed antenna structure for UWB applications.
The simulation results of band notch antenna indicate that the proposed antenna fulfils the
excellent triple band notch characteristics for various frequency bands and showing the good
return loss and radiation patters in the interested UWB.

New techniques should be explored to reduce the size of the UWB antennas to suit
more practical applications. Metamaterial is a promising candidate since it can reduce the size
greatly. Some optimization techniques should be used to optimize the optimum results like
PSO, Genetic algorithm.

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