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Design of a compact wide band microstrip antenna with very low VSWR for WiMAX applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2016

Aparna Kundu ,
Ujjal Chakraborty  and
Anup Kumar Bhattacharjee
Aparna Kundu
Affiliation:
National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, West Bengal, India
Ujjal Chakraborty*
Affiliation:
National Institute of Technology, Silchar, Assam, India
Anup Kumar Bhattacharjee
Affiliation:
National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, West Bengal, India
*
Corresponding author:U. Chakraborty Email: ujjal_dgp@yahoo.co.in.
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Abstract

A single-layer coaxial-fed compact rectangular microstrip antenna with very low voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) is presented in this paper. The simulated VSWR of the proposed antenna 1.00374 is obtained near the center frequency of the operating band (3.5 GHz). Simulation and measurement results indicate that the bandwidth (simulated: 3.36–3.715 GHz, and measured: 3.295–3.645 GHz) of the antenna exceeds 10% below VSWR 2, when the size reduction of the antenna is about 81.6%. The realized peak gain is obtained about 2.15 dBi at 3.5 GHz. For the verification of the computational results, two designs were fabricated and measured. Good agreements between simulated and measured results were found.

Keywords

MiniaturizationBandwidth enhancementLow VSWROpen ended slots
Type
Research Papers
Information
International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , April 2017 , pp. 685 - 690
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press and the European Microwave Association 2016 

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