The patch antenna is a good place to start for antenna fundamentals with more coming. In this study an irregularly shaped microstrip patch antenna was designed, simulated, and optimized for airtoground communication atg applications. Design and analysis of microsrtip square patch antenna under the kind guidance of. Thus the element and feed line, and usually other elements, power dividers, etc. A microstrip patch antenna consists of a radiating patch on one side of a dielectric substrate which has a ground plane on the other side. Mobile microstrip patch antenna basics and design rf microwave. As well as the study have investigated the effect of transparent oxide materials on patch antenna design instead of perfect conductor materials such as copper that. The goal is to understand the radiation mechanism, polarization, patterns, impedance and bandwidth. Additional benefits of patch antennas is that they are easily fabricated making them cost effective.
It covers microstrip based dcs band design example of mobile patch antenna. This technological trend has focused much effort into the design of a micro strip patch antenna. Antennas using patches as constitutive elements in an array are also possible. The thickness of the ground plane or of the microstrip is not critically important. Microstrip patch antenna calculator patch antenna formula. Their low profile design, often square or rectangular, allows them to be mounted to flat surfaces. Microstrip patch antenna construction and design aperture antenna basics nipun haritash. Alakmajumder design of an hshaped microstrip patch antenna for bluetooth applications international journal of. P, india abstract here we made an attempt to maximize the gain of microstrip patch antenna. Microstrip patch antenna design using hfss duration. Microstrip patch antennas or simply patch antenna are increasingly useful because the antenna is printed directly onto a circuit board. A dual band antenna and a microstrip fed patch antenna, used in the communication lab.
The performance of the designed antenna was analyzed in term of bandwidth, gain, return loss, vswr, and radiation pattern. Refer article on design of microstrip patch antenna used. The patchmicrostrip object is a microstrip patch antenna. Hence a compromise must be reached between antenna dimensions and antenna performance. The design and simulation of patch antennas is widely used in mobile cellular phones today, and our emphasis in this work is on optimization of a 2. A patch antenna is a narrowband, widebeam antenna fabricated by etching the antenna element pattern in metal trace bonded to an insulating dielectric substrate, such as a printed circuit board, with a continuous metal layer bonded to the opposite side. Pdf the purpose of this paper is to design a microstrip rectangular antenna in advance design system momentum ads. A multilayer microstrip patch antenna subarray design using cad. As an example, the size must increase to have it work at lower frequencies.
Microstrip patch antenna construction and design aperture antenna basics. The patch is of length l, width w, and sitting on top of a substrate some dielectric circuit board of thickness h with permittivity. The most widely used printedcircuit antenna is the microstrip patch, which in its simplest form is a rectangular or circular patch of metal fed by the microstrip upper conductor. Design and analysis of microstrip patch antenna arrays. But illustrates sizes and importance of good antenna design why microstrip antennas. Microstrip patch antenna design linkedin slideshare. This rectangular microstrip patch antenna is designed for wireless communication application that works at 2. In this work, the simulation tool of ie3d is used to study the. Design of a rectangular microstrip patch antenna using. Microstrip patch antenna is used in mobile handset due to simple look, lower cost, small size and light in weight.
In this case, each vector starts at the origin and lies along the specified points on the x, y, and zaxes. Design of microstrip patch antenna the ieee maker project. In order to design a compact microstrip patch antenna, higher dielectric constants must be used which are less efficient and result in narrower bandwidth. Design of dualband microstrip antennas using the genetic.
This antenna does not take any much extra size and can be etched on the same mobile pcb itself. M icrostrip p atch a ntenna microstrip patch antenna consists of a radiating patch. The most common type of microstrip antenna is the patch antenna. Microstrip patch antenna design calculator 1 mosin i memon and 2 prof. The fundamentals of patch antenna design and performance. Alternate feed methods a common variation in patch antenna design is the location and routing of the feed, to obtain a desired feedpoint impedance, to control the polarization, or for convenient layout. The purpose of this paper is to design a microstrip rectangular antenna in advance design system momentum ads. Microstrip antenna an overview sciencedirect topics. The reflection coefficient is less than 10db for a frequency range of 3. The antenna design consists of a single l yer f th ckne 1. Threeelement vectors of cartesian coordinates in meters. The design of microstrip patch mp antenna using mothflame optimization mfo algorithm for uwb applications is presented in this article.
Design and simulation of rectangular microstrip antenna. To reduce the design cycle time, commercially available cad software packages are utilized. The proposed configuration of the antenna is shown in figure 1. Ec 4th year shivanshu awasthi ec 4th year sarvesh kumar nishad ec 4th year novman asif ec 4th year. The major problems of the single element microstrip antennas are low gain and narrow bandwidth which limit their wide applications.
Design parameters and tradeoffs are presented for microstrip antennas. It also has a wide angle of beam in its radiation pattern. The patch antenna, microstrip transmission line and ground plane are made of high conductivity metal typically copper. Introduction micro strip patch antenna is very popular in wireless application and satellites because of ease in fabrication, planar design, mechanical reliability and mass production. This paper presents the design and simulation of rectangular microstrip antenna rmsa arrays for improved gain performance over the single element rectangular microstrip antenna. The basic design of microstrip patch antenna is shown in figure 5. Step by step procedure explanation of antenna design using hfss software hfss basics. Here, 50 ohm port z o is connected to the patch by using the microstrip feed line technique. The project here provides a detailed study of how to design a probefed square microstrip patch antenna using hfss, v11. Here is the link page to the various patch antenna and microstrip antenna topics. Microstrip patch antenna is simple to design and implement, due to its sensitivity at high gain.
The radiating elements and the feed lines are usually photo etched on the dielectric substrate. Analysis and design of circular microstrip patch antenna at 5. By using a straightforward transmissionline model, it is possible to accurately model and analyze microstrip line insetfed patch antenna designs. Design of dualband microstrip antennas using the genetic algorithm h. Bimal garg, rahul dev verma, ankit samadhiya department of electronics engineering, madhav institute of technology and science, gwalior, india email. A multilayer microstrip patch antenna subarray design using cad this article describes the design and development of an xband, linearly polarized 4. The return loss and the various gain plots have been studied along with the radiation patterns.
In order to design a compact microstrip patch antenna, a substrate with a higher dielectric constant antenna dimensions and antenna performance. Fig 6 design of single patch antenna in hfss simulation results the 2x2 patch array antenna is simulated using ansoft hfss. Design of microstrip antenna in cst microwave studio this is the second part of the inset fed patch antenna design tutorial using cst microwave studio. Design of microstrip antenna in cst microwave studio. The microstrip patch antenna can also be designed using an artificial neural network ann modeling technique where size of the antenna is. The permittivity should be low for large bandwidth but high to make the patch antenna smaller. Design and optimization of microstrip patch antenna for uwb.
The microstrip patch antenna is used in a wide range of applications since it is easy to design and fabricate. Design of a rectangular microstrip patch antenna using inset. Design, simulation, and optimization of an irregularly shaped. In this part of the tutorial, we will use the dimension calculated in the first part to design the patch antenna in cst microwave studio. Design and analysis of microstrip patch antennas using. The process started with the design of a rectangular patch antenna with the traditional transmission line and cavity methods, followed by a simulation with the finitedifference timedomain method fdtd in conjunction with a genetic algorithm.
Invented by bob munson in 1972 but earlier work by dechamps goes back to1953. Ling department of electrical and computer engineering the university of texas at austin austin, tx 787121024 u. Applied sciences ciicap, autonomous university of morelos state uaem, 62209, av. Optical microstrip patch antennas design and analysis sciencedirect. The results obtain that microstrip patch antenna can be used as client antenna in computer and workable antenna for wireless fidelity. Often microstrip antennas are also referred to as patch antennas. Analysis and design of microstrip patch antenna for radar. Microstrip patch antenna for gps and te rrestrial radio services. This mobile microstrip patch antenna design can also be applied to all the other frequency bands in the similar way as outlined here. In this video standard design equations that are used to design microstrip patch antenna are expained you can download the software.
Design and implementation of patch antenna 8 figure 2. Siakavara and others published methods to design microstrip antennas for modern applications find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Design of a rectangular microstrip patch antenna using inset feed. Design of rectangular microstrip patch antenna ieee. Using the equations mentioned above, a square microstrip patch antenna is designed at a resonant frequency of. Fang microstrip antenna design handbook garg et al title says it all, but a few inaccuracies have been found antenna theory constantine balanis used for antennas i elen 715. Pdf methods to design microstrip antennas for modern. Pakistan microstrip patch antennas have been widely used in a various useful applications because of their low weight and low profile, conformability, easy and cheap realization. Microstrip patch antennas represent one family of compact antennas that offers the benefits of a conformal nature and the capability of ready integration with a communication systems printed circuitry. The second group focused on the design and simulation of patch antennas which are widely used in cell phones today with an emphasis on optimization of a 1. We report on the use of the genetic algorithm ga to design patch shapes of microstrip antennas for. The patch antenna is designed using a rogers rt5880 substrate. Design equations for microstrip patch antenna design antenna. Design of rectangular microstrip patch antenna incorporated with innovative metamaterial structure for dual band operation and amelioration in patch antenna parameters with negative and.