A compact high gain microstrip antenna for wireless applications

In this article, we describe a novel type of defective ground surface (DGS) microstrip antenna that achieves higher gain, multi resonant frequency with compact size. The proposed antenna consists of a hexagonal shaped patch with small volume. Six triangular slots have been cut on the ground plane, just below the six corners of the hexagonal radiating patch. Antenna is circularly polarized one and it has the measured peak gain of 7.2 dBi. The antenna shows multi frequency behavior and more than 57% compactness compare to the conventional hexagonal patch antenna. The simulated results are confirmed experimentally. The proposed antenna is simple in structure compared with the regular stacked or coplanar parasitic patch antennas. It is highly suitable for wireless communications.     

GPS用小型微带天线的研制

介绍了小型微带天线的原理和微波介质材料的现状。在笔者所在公司专门研制的微波介质材料基础上,运用微带天线理论设计和制作出一款可应用于GPS的小型微带天线。样品天线工作在1.575GHz频率时,10dB带宽大于10MHz,回波损耗小于-20dB,轴比小于4dB,完全满足GPS的应用。通过对实验结果和批量生产情况的讨论,提出了进一步小型化的方向。     

Reconfigurable dual-band circularly polarized microstrip patch antenna for wireless applications

A new design of reconfigurable single-feed circular patch microstrip antenna for dual-band circular polarization application is proposed. The dual-band functionality is realized through incorporating cross-slots of equal slot length in the circular patch and utilizing two PIN diodes to switch the slots on or off. A pairs of tuning stubs are used to tune the circular polarization performance. The design process is presented and good results were obtained.     

加短路过孔的谢尔宾斯基毯式分形贴片天线研究

在传统谢尔宾斯基（Sierpinski）毯式分形贴片天线的基础上,加上两个短路过孔,使天线能够工作于更多的频段,并且在保持天线体积不变的情况下,使天线的第一频点降低到原来的一半。对所加短路过孔的位置和直径与天线的工作频点之间的关系进行了研究。使用高频电磁仿真软件（HFSS）仿真软件给出了天线S11和方向图的仿真结果,制作了实际的天线,给出了S11实验结果。实验结果与仿真结果基本吻合。     

A novel low mutual coupling microstrip antenna array design using defected ground structure

Defected ground structures (DGS) have been developed to improve characteristics of many microwave devices. In this paper, using FDTD method, effect of DGS to mutual coupling reduction of a two-element microstrip antenna array is investigated. The proposed DGS antenna is compared to other techniques and is shown to have an exceptionally lower mutual coupling between two E-plane coupled elements. Impact of the designed DGS on higher-order modes and radiation pattern of the antenna array is also examined.     

Shorting pin loaded dual-band compact rectangular microstrip antenna

Theoretical and experimental investigations carried out on shorted microstrip patch antenna for dual band operation. The investigations were carried out by varying the shorting-pin position from the edge to the centre of the patch; such an antenna provides a frequency tunability range from 0.88?GHz to 1.08?GHz for first resonance and from 2.20?GHz to 2.59?GHz for second resonance. A frequency ratio of about 2.91 to 2.2 for the two operating frequencies is observed. When the shorting-pin position is close to centre or at the centre of the patch, a single resonant frequency is observed. It is also observed that the resonant frequency of the antenna heavily depends upon the thickness of the substrate, dielectric constant of the substrate and radius of the shorting-pin.     

A new wideband planar antenna with band-notch functionality at GPS,Bluetooth and WiFi bands for integration in portable wireless systems

Empirical results are presented for a novel miniature planar antenna that operates over a wide bandwidth (500 MHz to 3.05G Hz). The antenna consists of dual-square radiating patches separated by two narrow vertical stubs to reject interferences from GPS, Bluetooth and WiFi bands. Radiating patches and stubs are surrounded by a ground-plane conductor, and the antenna is fed through a common coplanar waveguide transmission line (CPW-TL). The two vertical stubs generate pass-band resonances enabling wideband operation across the following communications standards: cellular, APMS, JCDMA, GSM, DCS, PCS, KPCS, IMT-2000, WCDMA, UMTS and WiMAX. Embedded in the ground-plane conductor is an H-shaped dielectric slit, which has been rotated by 90°, whose function is to reject interferences from GPS, Bluetooth and WiFi bands. Measurements results confirm the antenna exhibits notched characteristics at frequency bands of GPS (1574.4–1576.4 MHz), Bluetooth (2402–2480 MHz) and WiFi (2412–2483.5 MHz). The impedance bandwidth of the antenna is 2.55G Hz for VSWR < 2, which corresponds to a fractional bandwidth of 143.66%. Measured results also confirm that the antenna radiates omnidirectionally in the E-plane with appreciable gain performance over its operating frequency range. The antenna has dimensions of 15 × 15 × 0.8 mm³.     

Analysis of Modified Square Sierpinski Gasket fractal microstrip antenna for Wireless communications

In this paper, the slot loaded microstrip antenna has been developed with Sierpinski gasket technique. The proposed Modified Square Sierpinski Gasket (MSSG) fractal antenna involves a square patch utilizing Sierpinski gasket (triangular) structure. Four triangular slots are loaded at each iteration. The structure is then simulated using commercially available Ansoft HFSS simulator. The multi-band operation has been achieved by the proposed antenna at 15.915 GHz, 20.045 GHz, 23.077 GHz, 27.77 GHz frequencies with −20 dB, −25 dB, −22 dB, −28 dB return loss respectively which works well for Ku (12–18 GHz) and K (18–27 GHz) band. The consistent result is obtained after simulation and the validity of fabricated design is checked by the measured result. The designed antenna is an attractive candidate for applications like wireless multi-band communication systems.     

Compact and miniaturized microstrip antenna based on fractal and metamaterial loads with reconfigurable qualification

We have described a compact antenna based on fractal and metamaterial loads techniques. The microstrip patch antenna is assumed as a basic antenna and then the effect of fractal structures is implemented. The fractal patch is considered as a right-handed element and then by adding a left-handed element, the antenna miniaturization is achieved by using the metamaterial loads technique. The equivalent circuit is also used to describe the element effect on miniaturization and parametric models clarify them. The proposed antenna is modified for wireless applications and experimental results confirm our simulation results. In addition, we show that the proposed antenna is suitable for reconfigurable. By joining the unit cells together with various arrangements and changing the effective length, the various inductances can be obtained. Finally, by adding reconfigurable characteristic to the proposed antenna, the gain and radiation pattern can be controlled as shows in this paper. The patch antenna has low bandwidth and gain and so we have developed the patch antenna with defected ground to improve the bandwidth and the Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) is used to achieve higher gain and bandwidth. The final antenna is covering 2.4, 3.5 and 5.5 GHz with higher gain than the patch antenna.     

A compact CPW fed slot antenna for ultra wide band applications

A printed compact coplanar waveguide fed triangular slot antenna for ultra wide band (UWB) communication systems is presented. The antenna comprises of a triangular slot loaded ground plane with a T shaped strip radiator to enhance the bandwidth and radiation. This compact antenna has a dimension of 26 mm × 26 mm when printed on a substrate of dielectric constant 4.4 and thickness 1.6 mm. Design equations are implemented and validated for different substrates. The pulse distortion is insignificant and is verified by the measured antenna performance with high signal fidelity and virtually steady group delay. The simulation and experiment reveal that the proposed antenna exhibits good impedance match, stable radiation patterns and constant gain and group delay over the entire operating band.     

馈电相位可调极化可重构微带贴片天线

设计了一种相位可调的极化可重构微带贴片天线.该天线采用双馈电方式工作,通过改变馈电网络中4个单刀双掷开关的导通状态在两个馈电点形成不同的相位差,从而实现左旋圆极化、右旋圆极化以及线极化之间的切换.实验结果与理论分析和仿真结果相吻合,天线实现了良好的极化重构能力.特别是不同极化状态下,天线工作频率具有良好的一致性.     

A combined full-wave BCG-FFT method for radiation of microstrip antenna arrays

A method of combining BiConjugate Gradient(BCG) with Fast Fourier Trans-form(FFT) to analyze the radiation of microstrip antenna arrays is presented, where the spatially discrete BCG-FFT for analyzing microstrip structure is used and the del operators on Green's functions are transferred from the singular kernel to the expansion and testing functions. The resultant equations are solved by using BCG method in which the matrix-vector product is evaluated efficiently with FFT. The calculated patterns are in good agreement with the measured data.     

A Chaucer microstrip fractal antenna for mobile applications

In this paper a Chaucer fractal patch antenna integrated with split ring structure is simulated using Ansoft’s (HFSS), as well as fabricated and tested using VNA. The obtained results indicate that the proposed antenna resonates at 2.4 GHz in the ISM band. In addition, the structure offers multi-band operation with the fair value of return loss, gain, and bandwidth, impedance and directivity in the entire range of frequency operation.     

A COMPACT QUADRATURE FEEDING CIRCUIT FOR CIRCULARLY POLARIZED ANTENNA

A novel compact quadrature feeding circuit for a circularly polarized antenna is described. The equivalent circuit method in microwave network theory is used and the conventional directional coupler is converted to a new quadrature feeding circuit. This feeding circuit has the same characteristics as the conventional directional coupler but its size is only about one fourth of that of the latter. The formulas for designing the feeding circuit are given. The optimized results obtained by using the software ENSEMBLE are also reported.     

Design of compact fractal patch antenna for X/Ku/K-band applications

This paper presents a fractal-based compact new monopole antenna for wideband applications. The miniaturization has been achieved by incorporating Minkowski and Koch-snowflake fractals. The proposed antenna design is etched on top of Rogers RT/5880 dielectric material with a dimension of $8.10\times 8.10$ mm². The antenna is designed, analyzed, fabricated, and tested in the laboratory. The proposed geometry operates over a 8.62–22.40 GHz with fractional bandwidth (FBW) of 88.84% and VSWR is less than 2. The proposed monopole antenna exhibits nearly omnidirectional radiation patterns over the entire resonating band with a gain of 1–2.91 dBi and a radiation efficiency of more than 60.5%. Also, the measured results of the prototype make an excellent agreement with the simulated counterpart. Further, the antenna gives good time-domain characteristics. Therefore, the proposed miniaturized antenna can be used in X/Ku/K-band applications.     

多层微带贴片天线单元和阵列设计

该文通过结合经验公式和全波分析法,设计了一种电容补偿双层贴片、四层介质的微带贴片天线单元,该单元天线在频率为995～1125MHz的范围内,在驻波比SWR1.5的情况下,相对阻抗带宽达到12.26％的工程要求。此外,该文给出由该单元天线组成的216天线阵以及天线阵的驻波比的实测结果,最后给出天线阵的各单元排列方式和单元之间的互耦特性曲线的实测结果。     

Wheel shaped modified fractal antenna realization for wireless communications

A compact, low profile circular fractal patch antenna with low latency, low cost, high speed and multiband is presented. With the help of CST Microwave Studio Suite TM the proposed structure has been designed and analyzed. The simulated results are fixed experimentally. The suggested antenna has dimension of 32 × 36 mm² (W × L) and operating from 2.93 GHz–9.53 GHz with VSWR ≤ 2. The aerial is assembled on FR-4 (ε_r = 4.4) substrate with a thickness of substrate 1.25 mm. Detailed parametric studies of the antennas have been carried out. This microstrip fed antenna is suitable for ultra wideband (UWB), S, C and part of the X band applications.     

A compact quasi-self-complementary dual band notched UWB MIMO antenna with enhanced isolation using Hilbert fractal slot

A compact ultrawideband multiple input multiple output antenna with dual band notch characteristics is proposed. The design utilizes the property of quasi-self-complementary monopoles to achieve a bandwidth that ranges from 2.2 GHz to 11 GHz. The design has a compact size of 30 mm × 41 mm × 1.59 mm. Two quasi-self complementary half circular monopoles are symmetrically arranged to obtain MIMO antenna. Bandnotch characteristics are obtained by adding parasitic strips of Levy's Fractal shape near the feed line. A Hilbert Fractal shaped slot is etched in the ground plane to enhance the isolation (|S₂₁| < −20 dB) throughout the operational bandwidth. The measured and simulated radiation patterns are in good agreement and is found to be stable throughout the ultrawideband. Moreover, the measured peak gain is found to be 4 dBi.     

A novel compact K band PBG microstrip structure band-pass filter

A novel K band band-pass filter based on photonic band-gap (PBG) is presented. The proposed structures exhibit low insertion loss, compact size, simple fabrication and slow-wave characteristics. Due to slow-wave characteristic, PBG structure minimizes the pass-band filter to one-tenth of conventional filters with spurious-free response and deep attenuation levels. The miniature band-pass filter was simulated, realized and measured. There is a good agreement between the experiment and simulation results had been achieved. Its center pass-band frequency of this filter is 25.2?GHz, and insertion loss is less than ?4.5?dB.     

一种小型半U型缝折叠超宽带微带天线

提出了一种四分之一波长半U型缝隙折叠超宽带微带天线。该天线采用短路面加载半U型缝隙以及折叠辐射贴片的方法,实现了小型超宽带特性;天线的尺寸为18mm×7.5 mm×7mm,相对波长尺寸为0.231λg×0.096λg×0.09λg(λg是天线带宽最低频率对应的介质中波长)。仿真显示,天线的阻抗带宽为39.3%,仿真辐射方向图稳定,平均增益4.3 dB。由矢量网络适量分析仪E5071C实测天线模型,天线的带宽为3.86～6.47 GHz,相对带宽为50.53%,并且从3.53 GHz到大于8.5 GHz频段上电压驻波比小于3,相对带宽超过82.6%。