Investigation of a microstrip patch antenna with EBG structures using FDTD method

Author

Rao, Neeraj ; Dinesh Kumar, V.

Author_Institution

PDPM Indian Inst. of Inf. Technol., Design & Manuf., Jabalpur, India

fYear

2011

fDate

22-24 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

332

Lastpage

337

Abstract

In this paper, a novel design of an electromagnetic band-gap (EBG) structure using finite difference time-domain (FDTD) solver has been proposed for application in microstrip antennas. This EBG structure when incorporated with microstrip patch antenna is found to increase its gain remarkably. The designed EBG structures suppress propagation of surface waves at a particular band-gap frequency and have been found to decrease reflection loss significantly. The EBG structure has been designed for a band-gap 6.5 to 8.5 GHz. This structure has been applied on a rectangular patch substrate with dielectric constant 6.6. The gain using the designed structure has been found to be 6.306 dB at 7.5 GHz.

Keywords

finite difference time-domain analysis; microstrip antennas; permittivity; photonic band gap; EBG structure; FDTD method; dielectric constant; electromagnetic band-gap; finite difference time-domain solver; frequency 7.5 GHz; gain 6.306 dB; microstrip patch antenna; rectangular patch substrate; surface wave propagation; Metamaterials; Microstrip antennas; Patch antennas; Periodic structures; Substrates; Surface waves; electromagnetic band-gap structures (EBG); finite-difference time-domain (FDTD); gain; microstrip patch antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Recent Advances in Intelligent Computational Systems (RAICS), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Trivandrum

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9478-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RAICS.2011.6069329

Filename

6069329