Title :
Bandwidth Enhancement of Microstrip Patch Antennas by Implementing Electromagnetic Bandgap (EBG) Structures
Author :
Gupta, Ruchika ; Kumar, Mithilesh
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Rajasthan Tech. Univ. Akelgarh, Kota, India
Abstract :
In this paper, a micro strip patch antenna mounted over a high impedance electromagnetic band gap (EBG) substrate is proposed. The proposed antenna design is simulated on electromagnetic (EM) simulation software using FR-4 substrate with dielectric constant of 4.54 and thickness of 1.60mm. The proposed antenna has a compact structure with a total size of 60x60mm2. The bandwidth of micro strip patch antenna is enhanced by adjusting the parameters such as the gaps between adjacent patches in two orthogonal directions- the X-direction and the Y-direction respectively and the radii of the related vias. In addition, the EBG cells are placed in E-plane for surface wave reduction. A novel design of this micro strip patch antenna using mushroom-like EBG structure is integrated with these efficient methods which exhibits distinctly wider bandwidth than the conventional one. The simulated results show the good agreement with the proposed scheme.
Keywords :
microstrip antennas; photonic band gap; FR-4 substrate; antenna design; bandwidth enhancement; electromagnetic bandgap structure; electromagnetic simulation software; microstrip patch antenna; mushroom-like EBG structure; size 1.6 mm; surface wave reduction; Antenna radiation patterns; Bandwidth; Metamaterials; Microstrip; Microstrip antennas; Patch antennas; Periodic structures; Bandwidth; Electromagnetic Band Gap (EBG) structure; Patch antenna;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (CICN), 2012 Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Mathura
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2981-1
DOI :
10.1109/CICN.2012.58
