Title :
Vertex-fed hexagram patch wideband antenna
Author :
Joshi, Akanksha ; Pal, Debdas ; Singhal, Roshani
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., BITS Pilani, Pilani, India
Abstract :
Design and analysis of a vertex-feed arrangement of hexagram patch is proposed. The hexagram patch is designed over a glass epoxy FR-4 substrate with an overall thickness of 1.57 mm. The hexagram is a polygon with six vertices and one of the vertices is directly fed with microwave energy using an SMA connector. The performance characteristics of hexagram patch antenna with a square ground plane is examined and observations are reported in the paper. A simulation software CST Microwave Studio® (CST MWS) is used to design and analyze the hexagram patch antenna. From simulation results, it is observed that hexagram patch antenna possess wideband characteristics between 7.21-11.18 GHz.
Keywords :
antenna feeds; broadband antennas; microstrip antennas; CST MWS; SMA connector; glass epoxy FR-4 substrate; microwave energy; performance characteristics; simulation software CST microwave studio; size 1.57 mm; square ground plane; vertex-fed hexagram patch wideband antenna; Microstrip; Patch antennas; Hexagram Patch Antenna; Polygon Antenna; Vertex-fed Antenna; Wideband Antenna;
Conference_Titel :
Signal Propagation and Computer Technology (ICSPCT), 2014 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Ajmer
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-3139-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICSPCT.2014.6885011
