Broadband proximity fed modified E-shaped microstrip antenna

Commonly used technique to realize broadband microstrip antenna is by cutting the slots at an appropriate position inside the patch. The slot introduces a mode near the fundamental mode of the patch and yields broadband response. The bandwidth of an E-shaped microstrip antenna is further increased by cutting the pair of rectangular slots on one of its edge. This increase in bandwidth is due to another mode introduced by additional pair of slots. In this paper, modal variations, for this modified E-shaped antenna are studied. It has been observed that the slot affects the resonance frequency of higher order mode, which along with modes of E-shaped patch, realize higher bandwidth. Also the broadband proximity fed variation of modified E-shaped antenna in 950 MHz frequency range is proposed. This antenna gives a larger BW of 47% with broadside radiation pattern with a peak gain of approximately 10 dBi.