13-09-2014, 12:21 PM
Study of Compact and Wideband Microstrip
U-Slot Patch Antenna with DGS for Satellite
Application
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Abstract
— Microstrip patch antennas are used in many wireless
communication applications. This paper proposes the use of a
patch antenna with U-shaped slot and ground with reduced
dimension having DGS(Defected Ground Structure.) to achieve
wideband application with very low return loss. The objective of
this paper is to design, construct and fabricate microstrip antennas
suitable for satellite application that centred at frequency 6.3GHz.
The antenna must operate within the band of 6.3GHz band. This
band is currently being used in military applications. The antenna
is proposed to be used as a transmitting as well as receiving
antenna in wireless network and the mentioned applications. A
thick substrate with finite ground dimensions broadens the
bandwidth of the antenna. The proposed antenna reduced the
return loss as well as increases the bandwidth of the antenna
without increasing substrate height with the help of DGS.
INTRODUCTION
Now a day’s patch antenna with high permittivity material
substrate is used for wireless networking application. Modern
life depends so much on wireless technologies that one can no
longer afford to be off-line for long, even during flights.. In
particular, the U-slot patch [1] enable a single patch single
layer microstrip antenna to attain over 30% impedance
bandwidth. The use of DGS and reduced dimension of ground
plane is the main reason for achieving wide impedance
bandwidth. In this context, the present study investigated the
possibility of designing a wireless antenna catering to
applications at 5.5-6.49GHz, making use of typical panel
materials employed in such an environment. A wide-band
antenna with frequency 5.5-6.49GHz (about 1 GHz bandwidth)
bands would meet the requirements for all the above
applications. Microstrip patch antenna is widely considered to
be suitable for many wireless applications, even though it
usually has a narrow bandwidth [1]. The microstrip patch is
inherently a narrow-band structure and a larger thickness of
the grounded substrate helps in increasing its bandwidth [3].
But limited ground plane size is an essential requirement for
its compactness as well as compatibility with the mobile
wireless equipments. However, the bandwidth and the size of
an antenna are generally conflicting properties i.e.
improvement of one of the characteristics normally results in
degradation of the other. To overcome these researchers such
as slotting, DGS, use of dielectric substrate of high
permittivity [4] etc. The other method to miniaturize the
microstrip antenna is to modify its geometry using irises [5] or
folded structures [6-7] based on the perturbation effect [8].
Defected ground structure (DGS), where the ground plane
metal of the microstrip antenna design is modified
intentionally in order to enhance the performance [9-10]. The
name for this technique simply means that a "Defect" has been
etched off in the ground plane, which disturbs the shield
current distribution in the ground plane and influences the
input impedance as well as current flow of the antenna. A
defect in the ground plane causes to increase in effective
capacitance and inductance. DGS may have various shaped
slot like U-shaped slot, E-shaped slot, L-shaped slot, I-shaped
slot etc. which helps to improve resonant bandwidth. Different
types of antennas works in different frequency bands such as
L-band ranges between 1-2GHz, S-band ranges between 2-
4GHz, C-band ranges between 4-8 GHz and X-band ranges
between 8-12 GHz etc. Each of these frequency bands has
different working applications. Similarly proposed antenna
finds its application in C-band such as in satellite
communications, Wi-Fi etc. In this paper work, the design
incorporates random shaped Defected Ground Structure in
ground plane, which disturbs shielded current distribution in
ground plane [11-12]. drawbacks and to improve antenna
characteristics, different techniques have been used.
CONCLUSION
This paper proposed a rectangular shaped patch with u-slot
antenna for sattelite applications in this paper, a
comprehensive review has been given of the u-slot patch
antenna. Although, this antenna is best known for its
wideband characteristics. This antenna is applicable for the
satellite application which is centered at frequency 6.3GHz.
This antenna gives the good results in Satellite application