SWASTIKA SHAPE PATCH STRUCTURE ANTENNA ON A LOW COST POLYMER RESIN COMPOSITE MATERIAL FOR WIRELESS APPLICATIONS M. Samsuzzaman'"*, M.T. Islam? "Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia E-mail: sobuzese@eng.ukm.my In this invention, a compact simple structure modified Swastika shape patch multiband antenna on a substrate of available low cost polymer resin composite material is designed for Wireless Applications applications. The substrate material consists of an epoxy matrix reinforced by woven glass. This composition of epoxy resin and fiber glass varies in thickness and is direction dependent. One of the attractive properties of polymer resin composites is that they can be shaped and reshaped repeatedly without losing their material properties [1]. Due to lower manufacturing cost, ease of fabrication, design flexibility and market availability of the proposed material, it has become popular for use as a substrate in patch antenna design. The composition ratio of the material is 60 % fiber glass and 40 % epoxy resin. The designed microstrip line fed compact antenna consisting of a swastika shape patch with extra slot and wide slotted ground with four extra slots is presented in detail. The five rectangular slots in the patch radiator change the patch of the surface current, Furthermore, the slots and slits in the ground plane are also expanding the surface current. Thus, two resonant modes are excited and the dimensions of the slots and slits have an important role on matching performance of the proposed antenna, The patch radiator with microstrip line feed is printed on one side of the epoxy resin polymer substrate and slotted ground plane with slits is printed on the other side of the same substrate. The proposed swastika shape antenna was designed and analysed by using a finite element method based simulator HFSS and fabricated on a low cost FR4 (polymer resin composite material) printed circuit board. The effect of the different substrate materials on the reflection coefficients of the proposed antennas were also analysed. It can be clearly seen that the proposed antenna provides a wider band- width and acceptable return loss value compared to other reported materials. The experimental and numerical results exhibits that the antenna has an impedance bandwidth with -10 dB return loss at 2.28-3.94 GHz and 5.05-6.17 GHz which can cover both the Wi-Fi and WiMAX bands. Also, a stable monopole like radiation pattern and an average antenna gain of 4.25 dBi and 3.65 dBi across the operating band have been achieved. The radiation efficiency, input impedance, and current distri- bution of the proposed antenna were also investigated.Recently, the rapid development of wireless communication systems, the multiple band antenna with simple structure, compact size, higher performance, low cost, and easy integration with the circuit has been needed extensively. Details of the materials structure and proposed designed are investigated and discussed. 1, I, Yarovsky and E, Evans, "Computer simulation of structure and properties of crosslinked polymers: application to epoxy resins,” Polymer, vol. 43, pp. 963-969, 2002, 201