DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF APERTURE COUPLED RECTANGULAR MICROSTRIP ANTENNA FOR WIDE BAND OPERATION

B Suryakanth

Abstract: This paper presents the experimental investigations carried out for obtaining wide band operation of rectangular microstrip antenna by using aperture coupled feeding technique. By incorporating U-slots with stubs on the radiating element, antenna resonates for single wideband with an impedance bandwidth of 45.61%. The antenna has two resonant peaks f1 and f2 which occurs at 12.1 GHz and 14.38 GHz with minimum return loss of -32.46 dB and -46.12 dB respectively. The lower resonant frequency f1 is closer to the fundamental resonance of the rectangular patch. The second resonant frequency f2 is due to current along the edges of U-slots and stubs of aperture coupled U-slot and stub rectangular microstrip antenna (AUSRMSA). This technique also enhances the gain to 9.96 dB which is 1.89 times more than the gain of conventional rectangular microstrip antenna (CRMA). The enhancement of impedance bandwidth and gain does not affect the nature of broadside radiation characteristics. The design concepts of antennas are presented and experimental results are discussed.

Keywords: Microstrip, wide band, Aperture coupled, Slots.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2013.0212061