DESIGN OF V-SLOTTED MICROSTRIP PATCH ANTENNA FOR YIELDING IMPROVED GAIN BANDWIDTH PRODUCT

Chandan Bangera, Manjusha Joshi

Abstract: In this paper, a novel antenna design for improvement of patch antenna gain and bandwidth has been proposed.The proposed antenna design is a V-slotted rectangular microstrip patch antenna for yielding improved gain bandwidth product suitable for WLAN and Wi-Max applications. The antenna operates at 5.9 GHz and has the maximum achievable bandwidth obtained about 1.04Ghz and gain of 6.22dBi .The microstrip patch is constructed using a single layer RT/duroid (5880) substrate, having dielectric constant er = 2.2 and loss tangent tan d =0.001.A co-axial feed is used and the antenna is simulated using IE3D software from Zeland based on method of moments.

Keywords: RMSA, V-slot, Gain-Bandwidth product, WLAN, Wi-Fi.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0303063