Effect of ground plane shape on microstrip antenna performance for cellphone applications

Author

Natarjan, V. ; Chatterjee, D. ; Lee, K.-F. ; Swanson, R.D.

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Missouri-Columbia, Kansas City, MO, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2001

Firstpage

46

Abstract

The potential application of microstrip antennas for use in cellphones places a restriction on the size of the ground plane. Earlier work examined the influence of smaller ground planes on the radiation patterns and VSWR of antennas. The effects of rectangular, square and circular ground plane shapes are reported for a probe-fed rectangular microstrip patch, where the probe location has been pre-selected for the best VSWR based on cavity-model formulation. The effects of the finite ground plane shape are analyzed by the commercially available IE3D software. Comparison with previously published experimental and computed data is also included here along with radiation pattern and VSWR results for various ground plane shapes.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; cellular radio; microstrip antennas; mobile antennas; telephone sets; IE3D software; VSWR; cellphone applications; ground plane shape; probe-fed rectangular microstrip antenna; radiation patterns; Antenna radiation patterns; Application software; Bandwidth; Cities and towns; Computational modeling; Manufacturing; Microstrip antennas; Patch antennas; Probes; Shape;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2001. IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7070-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2001.960027

Filename

960027