Effect of FSS ground plane on second iteration of hexaflake fractal patch antenna

Author

Choudhury, Sajid Muhaimin ; Matin, Md Abdul

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Bangladesh Univ. of Eng. & Technol., Dhaka, Bangladesh

fYear

2012

fDate

20-22 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

694

Lastpage

697

Abstract

Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) can be used as a surface frequency dependant translucency - thereby reflecting a particular frequency while allowing other frequencies to pass. In this paper, FSS is used as the ground plane of a Hexaflake fractal patch antenna structure. FSS selectively forms cavity along with the hexaflake patch structure, which can be exploited to enhance performance of patch antenna. Effect of altering width of FSS elements on antenna performance is studied. Simulations are performed using Finite Element Method. The designed fractal patch antenna structure shows 19.9% improvement of bandwidth over a second iteration of hexaflake fractal patch antenna with PEC ground plane.

Keywords

finite element analysis; iterative methods; microstrip antennas; FSS ground plane effect; PEC ground plane; finite element method; frequency selective surface; hexaflake fractal patch antenna second iteration; surface frequency dependant translucency; Bandwidth; Finite element analysis; Fractals; Frequency selective surfaces; Microstrip; Microstrip antennas; Patch antennas; Bandwidth Enhancement; Fractal Patch Antenna; Frequency Selective Surface;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical & Computer Engineering (ICECE), 2012 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dhaka

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1434-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECE.2012.6471645

Filename

6471645