RECTANGULAR MICROSTRIP

PATCH ANTENNA

ABHIMANYU KUMAR GAUTAM

ABHINAV KUMAR
ANKIT GUPTA
BRAJESH KUMAR
GAUTAM KUMAR
IKBAL AHMED LASKER

CONTENTS

Introduction
Fundamental parameters of antennas
Rectangular microstrip patch antenna
HFSS
Design specification of rectangular patch antenna
Analysis of patch antenna
Results of patch antenna
Advantage & disadvantage
Application
Conclusion
References

Introduction
Antenna is defined as a usually metallic
device (as a rod or wire) for radiating or
receiving radio waves. But as for IEEE standard
definitions of terms for antenna or aerial as a
mean for radiating or receiving radio waves.
Regardless of antenna
type, all involve the
same basic principle
that
radiation
is
produced
by
accelerated
(or
deaccelerated) charges.

Types of antennas
.
.
.
.
.
.

Wire antenna
Aperture antenna
Microstrip antenna
Array antenna
Reflector antenna
Lens antenna

Fundamental parameters of
antennas
. Radiation pattern
. Isotropic,directional,and
omnidirectional pattern

Field regions
> reactive near field region
> radiating near field region
> far field region

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.

Radiation intensity
Directivity
Gain
Bandwidth
S-parameter
Z-parameter
VSWR

Rectangular microstrip patch

antenna
>In general Micro strip antennas are also known as

PRINTED
mostly used

ANTENNAS .
>These are
at
microwave
frequencies
>Because the size
of the antenna is directly
tied to the half wavelength at the resonant frequency.
>Micro strip patch antenna or
patch antenna is
a narrowband wide-beam antenna.
>The patch usually fed along the centerline
to symmetry and thus minimize excitation of
undesirable modes.

 Micro strip antennas are

easy to fabricate and
comfortable on curved
surface .
The directivity is fairly
insensitive
to
the
substrate thickness.
Micro
strip
patch
antennas patches are in
variety of shapes ,such
as rectangular , square,
triangular and circulator

. Fringing effect

. Effective length, Resonant

frequency and effective width

HFSS
. HFSS stands for high
frequency structure
simulator
. ANSYS HFSS
software is the industry
standard
for
simulating 3-D full wave
electromagnetic fields

Modes of operation
. HFSS 3D model
. Electrical CAD
interface
. HFSS 3D layout

ANSOFT HFSS
Solution Type
Driven Model
Driven Terminal
Eignemode

Parametric model
Generation
3D modelling
Overview of Draw (Snap,moving)
Material
View of Model
Boundary Condition
Assign Port

Analysis Setup
Adapt Frequency
Convergence criteria
Initial Mesh options
Adaptive options
Low order Basis Function

 Results
Solve loop

Design specification of
rectangular patch antenna
. 3D model
>
>
>
>

Ground
substrate
microstrip line(feed)
patch

. Assigning boundary
. Assigning excitation

Analysis of patch antenna

. Analysis setup
> solution freq
> max number of passes
> max Delta S per pass

. Freq sweep
> starting freq
> attenuating freq
> number of counting

. Analyze

Results of patch antenna

. Solution data
> matrix data

> convergence

> s-parameter

> smith chart

> 3D polar plot

. Far field reports

> radiation pattern in 2D

> 3D polar plot

> rectangular plot

Advantage & disadvantage

.Advantage
Easy to fabricate on curved surfaces
Easily integrated on MIC circuits
Dual frequency and dual polarization can be
easily made.
Low cost , Less size in volume
Mechanically robust on rigid surface
Compatible with modular design

.Disadvantage
Narrow bandwidth
Lower efficiency & gain(nearly 6db)
Large ohmic losses in feed structure of
arrays
Excitation of surface waves
Most microstrip antennas radiate into halfspace
Low power handling capability

Application :Used in mobile satellite communication

system.
Used in aircraft , spacecraft & missiles
Direct broad cast television(DBS).
GPS system.
Telemetry & telemedicine
Radar application

Remedie
Low power and low gain can overcome by arrays
s:configuration.
Surface wave associated limitations such as poor
efficiency,
increased mutual coupling, reduced gain and
radiation pattern
can overcome.

Conclusion
Return loss, gain and efficiency are acceptable
Bandwidth enhancement of 20dB is possible
Our future work will be carried out using
different feeding
techniques with different software
Simple, small size and high efficiency antenna
can be designed

References
C. A. Balanis, Antenna Theory, Analysis and Design, John
Wiley & Sons, New York,1997.
B.-K. Ang and B.-K. Chung A wideband e-shaped microstrip
patch antenna for 56ghz wireless communications. Progress
in Electromagnetics Research, PIER 75, 397407, 2007
Mr.Anil K.K. leacturer of ECE Department,cochin university
college of engineering, CUSAT
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