Crescent moon-shaped artificial magnetic conductor ground plane for patch antenna application

Author

Dewan, R. ; Rahim, S.K.A. ; Ausordin, Siti Fatimah ; Nor, M.Z.M. ; Saad, B.M.

Author_Institution

Wireless Commun. Centre, Univ. Teknol. Malaysia, Skudai, Malaysia

fYear

2013

fDate

22-25 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

254

Lastpage

258

Abstract

In this paper, a crescent moon-shaped artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) for patch antenna ground application is presented. The AMC is designed to operate at 3.5 GHz with a bandwidth of 5 %. A patch antenna operate at similar operating frequency has been designed to serves as a reference antenna. Subsequently, the proposed AMC is incorporate with the patch antenna. The AMC ground plane incorporation successfully improved the antenna bandwidth up to 160 % while reducing patch size as much as 10%. The Parametric studies conducted and discussed includes the reflection phase of the AMC design, effect of air gap to the multi substrate structure, return loss of the patch antenna and radiation pattern.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; microstrip antennas; AMC; crescent moon-shaped artificial magnetic conductor ground plane; patch antenna application; radiation pattern; Bandwidth; Conductors; Patch antennas; Reflection; Substrates; Moon-shaped AMC; bandwidth enhancement; reduction of area;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Technology and Applications (ISWTA), 2013 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kuching

ISSN

2324-7843

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0155-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISWTA.2013.6688782

Filename

6688782