Equilateral triangular microstrip patch antenna with spur lines embedded

Author

Malek, F. ; Md Shukor, M. ; Abd Aziz, M.Z.A. ; Nornikman, H. ; Zulkefli, M.S. ; Mat, H.M. ; Ahmad, B.H. ; Abd Malek, Mohd Fareq ; Othman, M.A.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Syst. Eng., Univ. Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), Arau, Malaysia

fYear

2013

fDate

11-12 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

303

Lastpage

306

Abstract

This paper presents an equilateral triangular microstrip antenna with spur lines. The proposed antenna, comprising a triangular planar patch element embedded with two spur line slots. The simulation and fabrication process are performed to understand the characteristics of the proposed antenna. The simulation result is compared with the fabricated antenna. The targeting frequency of this antenna is 0.90 GHz (first resonant frequency) and 1.80 GHz (second resonant frequency). The proposed antenna can improve the bandwidth of GSM 1800 up to 100 MHz. It shows the return loss of - 16.176 dB, bandwidth of 33 MHz (0.919 GHz to 0.952 GHz) and a gain of 3.52 dB first resonant frequency. At second frequency, the return loss are - 28.159 dB with a bandwidth of 115 MHz (1.714 GHz to 1.829 GHz) and gain of 3.380 dB.

Keywords

UHF antennas; microstrip antennas; UHF antennas; antenna gain; bandwidth 115 MHz; bandwidth 33 MHz; embedded spur lines; equilateral triangular microstrip patch antenna; frequency 0.90 GHz; frequency 0.919 GHz to 0.952 GHz; frequency 1.714 GHz to 1.829 GHz; gain 3.380 dB; gain 3.52 dB; loss -16.176 dB; loss -28.159 dB; spur line slots; Antenna measurements; Bandwidth; Microstrip; Microstrip antennas; Patch antennas; Resonant frequency; antenna gain; equilateral triangular; microstrip patch antenna; return loss; spur lines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC), 2013 Loughborough

Conference_Location

Loughborough

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LAPC.2013.6711906

Filename

6711906