Design of a broadband microstrip antenna with artificial magnetic conductor ground plane

Author

Cekingen, Mustafa ; Isik, Cevdet ; Turetken, Bahattin

Author_Institution

Istanbul Tech. Univ., Istanbul, Turkey

fYear

2011

fDate

1-4 Dec. 2011

Abstract

The design and characterization of a novel broadband microstrip antenna with artificial magnetic conductor ground plane (AMC) is presented in this paper. It is suitable for applications which include GSM 1800, UMTS and ISM 2.4 technologies. An artificial magnetic conductor ground plane is used to improve the antenna performance and reduce antenna size. The performances of the proposed antenna are studied using finite element method ANSOFT High Frequency Structure Simulator (HFSS), and then the designed antenna is realized and validated by measurements. It was observed in the network analyzer measurements of the proposed antenna that the designed antenna has 1.1 GHz impedance bandwidth which is obtained between the frequencies of 1.7 GHz and 2.8 GHz. Details of the proposed antenna design are described, and experimental results are presented.

Keywords

broadband antennas; finite element analysis; microstrip antennas; ANSOFT high frequency structure simulator; GSM 1800; ISM 2.4; UMTS; antenna performance; antenna size; artificial magnetic conductor ground plane; broadband microstrip antenna; finite element method; network analyzer measurement; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Bandwidth; Broadband antennas; Microstrip; Microstrip antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ELECO), 2011 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bursa

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0160-2

Type

conf

Filename

6140248