Gain enhancement of a microstrip patch antenna using array rectangular Barium Strontium Titanate (BST)

Author

Wee, F.H. ; Malek, F.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. & Commun. Eng., Univ. Malaysia Perlis, Kuala Perlis, Malaysia

fYear

2011

fDate

14-15 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Ceramic microstrip patch antenna formed using Barium Strontium Titanate (BST) has been investigated. The Computer Simulation Technology (CST) Microwave Studio is used for the simulation. We measured the gain of antennas with two, four, and six elements array of BST antenna and found that the gain of an six elements of BST array antenna was enhanced by about 2.126 dB gain over the four elements of BST array antenna at 2.3 GHz. The impedance bandwidths of these BST array antenna for VSWR <; 2 were in the Worldwide interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) application range which is 2.3 GHz to 2.5 GHz. Compared with the conventional array antenna with the same aperture size, the performance of the antenna is improved obviously and the design is suitable for array applications for example base station.

Keywords

WiMax; microstrip antenna arrays; microwave antenna arrays; open systems; BST antenna array; array application design; array rectangular barium strontium titanate; ceramic microstrip patch antenna performance; computer simulation technology microwave studio; frequency 2.3 GHz to 2.5 GHz; gain enhancement; impedance bandwidth; microwave access application; worldwide interoperability; Antenna arrays; Antenna measurements; Arrays; Ceramics; Dielectric resonator antennas; Dielectrics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC), 2011 Loughborough

Conference_Location

Loughborough

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1014-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-1015-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LAPC.2011.6114054

Filename

6114054