Wideband Gap Coupled Assembly of Rectangular Microstrip Patches for Wi-Max Applications
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Vijay Sharma
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M.M. Sharma
Abstract
This paper presents a wideband gap coupled assembly of rectangular microstrip patches applicable in lower and upper band of Wi-Max applications utilizing six directly and parasitically coupled patches. Considered assembly of patches on glass epoxy FR4 substrate has overall dimension of 40.0 mm by 52.88 mm. The proposed antenna is designed to function in the lower band (2.4–2.69 GHz) and upper band (5.25–5.85 GHz) of Wi-Max systems. The antenna is simulated using IE3D simulation software in view of the Wi-Max standards adopted by IEEE 802.16 working group. The simulated and measured results are well in agreement and show that antenna resonates in two bands proposed for wireless communication applications and successfully achieves the bandwidth of 11.2% (at VSWR: 1.5) with respect to the center frequency of 2.84 GHz in lower band and 9.7% with respect to the center frequency of 5.39 GHz in upper band. Gain and efficiency of antenna in these two bands are however low due to lossy substrate but radiation patterns in each of these two bands are identical in shape in entire bandwidth region. In lower band maximum radiations may be achieved normal to patch geometry but in upper band, direction of maximum radiations is inclined at θ = 60° perhaps due to the generation of higher mode.
©[2014] by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston
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