Ultra-wideband patch antenna for microwave communications

Author

Rafique, U. ; Ali, S.A. ; Shabbir, G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Mohammad Ali Jinnah Univ., Islamabad, Pakistan

fYear

2014

Firstpage

10

Lastpage

13

Abstract

A study of ultra-wideband (UWB) microstrip patch antenna for microwave related applications is presented. According to -10 dB impedance bandwidth criteria, the antenna is able to operate in the frequency range 4.7-17 GHz. The antenna is designed on FR-4 epoxy with thickness 1.6 mm and dielectric constant 4.4. An air gap is used between two dielectrics whereas, inverted patch configuration is employed to achieve ultra-wideband characteristics. From proposed design, an average gain of 10 dBi is observed. The presented results demonstrated that the proposed microstrip patch antenna is suitable for WLAN, radar and satellite communications.

Keywords

microstrip antennas; microwave antennas; ultra wideband antennas; FR-4 epoxy; WLAN communication; frequency 4.7 GHz to 17 GHz; microwave communications; radar communication; satellite communication; size 1.6 mm; ultrawideband microstrip patch antenna; ultrawideband patch antenna; Bandwidth; Feeds; Gain; Microstrip; Microstrip antennas; Patch antennas; Ultra wideband technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multi-Topic Conference (INMIC), 2014 IEEE 17th International

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5754-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INMIC.2014.7096902

Filename

7096902