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Wideband Stacked Microstrip Patch Antenna For Wireless Communication PDF
Wideband Stacked Microstrip Patch Antenna For Wireless Communication PDF
Mohammad Tariqul Islam1, Norbahiah Misran1,2, Mohammed Nazmus Shakib2, and Baharudin
Yatim1
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Institute of Space Science (ANGKASA), 2Dept. of Electrical, Electronics & System
Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 UKM Bangi, Selangor , Malaysia
Email: titareq@yahoo.com,engmdns@yahoo.com
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It is well known that using the stacked patches with the designed antenna displays good broadside radiation
somewhat different lengths, the impedance bandwidth patterns in the xz-plane and yz-plane at second resonant
increases by virtue of close double resonance. The frequency of 2.18 GHz. It can be seen that 3-dB
degree of the impedance widening operation usually beamwidth of 62 and 50 for xz-plane and yz-plane
depends on the gap between the two patches and their respectively at 2.18 GHz. The cross polarization
length ratio. If their length ratio is significant, dual pattern is lower than about -35dB in xz-plane. The
resonance occurs instead of broadband behavior. proposed stacked patch antenna exhibits better cross
Broadband operation we obtain using stacked patches polarization than the design reported in [11]. Notable,
has limitations in this sense. It has also been found that the radiation characteristics of the proposed stacked
by adopting a L-probe feeding and extended E shape patch antenna are better to those of the conventional
slotted patch technique, the impedance bandwidth is patch antenna.
also broadened considerably and by the use of H shape 0
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slots technique basically for reduction patch size and 330 -10 30
cross polarization. -20
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3. Results -40
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Frequency [GHz]
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Figure 2. Simulated return loss of the proposed
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stacked patch antenna.
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The simulated radiation pattern is at the second 3
resonant frequency in the xy-plane and yz-plane are 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 2 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5
plotted in Figure 3. For the sake of brevity, only Frequency [GHz]
simulated radiation pattern for second resonant Figure 4. Simulated gain of proposed stacked patch
frequency is given in this paper. As shown in Figure 3, antennas at different frequencies.
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In Figure 5, a parametric study was conducted to 5. References
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