A novel Ku-band microstrip antenna

Author

Oweis, Mohamed Ahmed Hassan ; Ghouz, Hussein Hamed Mahmoud

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Arab Acad. for Sci., Technol. & Maritime Transp. (AASTMT), Cairo, Egypt

fYear

2014

fDate

19-20 April 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents a novel design of compact microstrip patch antenna for 79% utilization of the Ku-band satellite communication applications. The propounded design comprises of a rectangular patch with internal (built-in) resonator mounted on FR-4 single layer substrate with full ground plane fed by microstrip transmission line. The overall microstrip antenna´s patch dimensions are 9×12.75 mm². The proposed antenna design has been simulated and optimized using the commercial CST studio. The obtained results show that a wide operating band of 2.8 GHz (from 11.2 to 14.0 GHz) has been achieved. The recorded average gain and total efficiency across the band are 4.65 ± 1 dB and 82.0 % respectively at center frequency.

Keywords

antenna feeds; design engineering; electrical engineering computing; microstrip antennas; microstrip lines; microwave antennas; microwave resonators; rectangular waveguides; satellite antennas; substrate integrated waveguides; CST studio; FR-4 single layer substrate; Ku-band microstrip antenna; Ku-band satellite communication applications; compact microstrip patch antenna design; frequency 11.2 GHz to 14.0 GHz; frequency 2.8 GHz; full ground plane; internal resonator; microstrip transmission line; rectangular patch; Acceleration; Antennas; Microstrip components; Resonant frequency; Satellites; Silicon; ku-band; microstrip antenna; rectangular patch; resonator; satellite; slits;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering and Technology (ICET), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cairo

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEngTechnol.2014.7016793

Filename

7016793