Implementation of Long Microstrip Line-Fed Antenna for WLAN Applications

The use of the microstrip antenna has grown rapidly for the last two decades, because of the increasing demand for a low profile antenna with small size, low cost, and high performance over a large spectrum of frequencies. However, despite the advantages microstrip antennas provide, a number of technical challenges remain to be solved for microstrip antennas to reach their full potential, particularly if they are to be interfaced with monolithic circuits. In this paper, we proposed examine novel methods for integrating and constructing broadband microstrip antennas, particularly at high microwave and millimeter wave frequencies where dimensions get very small and fabrication tolerances are critical. This paper is to address these issues and invent novel fabrication processes that enable efficient, broadband MMIC compatible antennas to be realized at very high frequencies.