Title :
Design of a compact patch antenna using UC-EBG structure
Author :
Siya Mi ; Yee Hui Lee
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore
Abstract :
This paper presents a design of a small size patch antenna using uni-planar electromagnetic bandgap (UC-EBG) structure. A square microstrip patch is printed on an inexpensive Fire Retardant-4 (FR4) board, and a 3 by 3 UC-EBG array is embedded in the ground. With the help of the UC-EBG array, the gain and bandwidth of the antenna is improved over the conventional patch antenna. Moreover, the size of the patch antenna can be significantly reduced. The proposed antenna design is fabricated. Measurement results show good agreement with the simulation results.
Keywords :
microstrip antenna arrays; photonic band gap; UC-EBG array; UC-EBG structure; antenna bandwidth; antenna gain; compact patch antenna design; inexpensive Fire Retardant-4 board; square microstrip patch; uniplanar electromagnetic bandgap structure; Antenna measurements; Bandwidth; Metamaterials; Patch antennas; Periodic structures;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5315-1
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2013.6711351
