Design of quad slot microstrip patch antenna with edge feed for WiMAX applications

Author

Padmavathy, T.V. ; Kumar, M. Dinesh ; Jason, L. Joy

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., RMK Coll. of Eng. & Technol., Chennai, India

fYear

2013

fDate

12-14 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

421

Lastpage

425

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to design and optimize the edge fed microstrip patch antenna and to improve efficiency by improving the parameters such as return loss and frequency of operation. In this paper, the various antenna characteristics for patch antenna are achieved by using dege feeding techniques. The patch antenna using edge feed is simulated using IE3D simulator for 3.3GHz operating frequency with acceptable return loss of -12db and circular polarization is achieved. The simulation of antenna is done using dielectric material FR4 with dielectric constant of 4.4. The designed antenna can be used for wireless LAN and mobile communication.

Keywords

WiMax; antenna feeds; microstrip antennas; slot antennas; WIMAX applications; antenna characteristics; circular polarization; dielectric constant; edge fed microstrip patch antenna; feeding techniques; frequency 3.3 GHz; mobile communication; quad slot microstrip patch antenna; wireless LAN; Antenna Efficiency Return loss; Edge fed; IE3D; Microstrip patch;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Sustainable Energy and Intelligent Systems (SEISCON 2013), IET Chennai Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chennai

Print_ISBN

978-1-78561-030-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/ic.2013.0347

Filename

7119734