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Simulation and Experimental Studies on Printed Ultra Wide
Band Antennas
Sumukha Prasad U, Prithvi Shankar N, Pramod D Harithsa, Preetham S
B.E, (M Tech) in RVCE Mysore Road, Bangalore.
B.E, (M Tech) in RVCE Mysore Road, Bangalore.
B.E, (M Tech) in Coventry Infosys, Mysore.
B.E in VVIET, Mysore.
Abstract
Printed patch antennas are generally planar, low mass and low profile radiating elements. Due to their possible
conformity and simple manufacturing, printed antennas are interesting techniques for wide variety of
applications like GPRs and See-through-the wall radars. Major disadvantages associated with this printed
antennas are low gain and narrow bandwidth. However many broad banding techniques are in the literature such
as aperture coupling using multi layer substrates, using parasitic elements etc... by its nature, for defense
applications which challenges us to improve the bandwidth of the antenna without increasing the thickness of
the substrate. One such method that facilitates our need is insertion of wide slots in the ground plane, steps in
the planar patch and partial ground plane technique in order to make it to radiate bidirectionally.
Index Terms: Coplanar Waveguide (CPW), Impedance Bandwidth, Micro Strip Antenna (MSA), Radiation
Pattern, Ultra Wide Band (UWB), VNA Return Loss Plot.
I. Introduction
MSAs are attractive due to their light
weight, conformability and low cost [5]. These can
be integrated with printed strip-line feed networks
and active devices. A major contributing factor for
recent advances is the current revolution in electronic
circuit miniaturization brought about by
developments in large scale integration. MSA based
on photolithographic technology [8] are seen as an
engineering breakthrough.
In its most fundamental form, a MSA
consists of a radiating patch on one side of a
dielectric substrate which has a ground plane on the
other side. For a rectangular patch [7], the length L of
the patch is usually 0.33λ0 < L < 0.5λ0, where λ0 is
the free-space wavelength. The patch [6] is selected
to be very thin such that t << λ0 (where t is patch
thickness). The height h of dielectric substrate is
usually 0.003λ0 ≤ h ≤ 0.05λ0.The dielectric constant
of the substrate εr is typically in the range 2.2 ≤ εr ≤
12. For good antenna performance, a thick dielectric
substrate having a low dielectric constant is desirable
since this provides better efficiency, larger bandwidth
and better radiation. However, such a configuration
leads to a larger antenna size. In order to design a
compact MSA [8], substrates with higher εr must be
used which are less efficient and result in narrower
bandwidth. Hence a trade-off must be realized
between the antenna dimensions and antenna
performance. Here we use different Ultra wide band
techniques to achieve greater bandwidth. The
Simulator tool is CST studio (Finite Difference Time
Domain) and HFSS (Finite Element Method).
II. Planar Antenna( with slot in ground
plane)
II.A Printed Wide Slot Antennas
Wide-Slot antenna [1] is superior in its wide-band
characteristics. Together with its narrow slot
counterpart, they form the two major members of the
slot antenna family. Although many coplanar
waveguide (CPW) - fed and microstrip-fed wide-slot
antennas have been proposed for wide-band
applications, studies on the effect of the interaction
between feed and slot on impedance bandwidth and
radiation patterns are rare. It was found that by
choosing suitable combinations of feed and slot
shapes and tuning their sizes, an optimum impedance
bandwidth can be obtained, and more importantly,
stable radiation patterns across the whole band can be
achieved. The photo plots depicting the fabricated
and engineered designs of Square patch antenna with
wide slot and Triangle patch antenna with triangular
slot are presented in Figures 1 and 2, respectively.
RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS
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(a) Front View (b) Back View
Figure 1: Square patch antenna with Wide slot
(Photo Plot).
(a) Front View (b) Back View
Figure 2: Triangle patch antenna with Triangular
slot (Photo Plot).
II.A.1 Antenna design
The geometries of the two proposed
antennas [1] were fabricated on the Rogers TMM4
(εr=4.4) and FR4 (εr=4.4) substrate. Design 1(Figure
3) has an Arc-Shaped slot (Semicircle Arc, radius
26.85mm) and a square-patch feed with edge length
of 15mm; Design 2 (Figure 8) has a triangular-shape
slot and an equilateral triangular-patch feed with an
edge length Wp of 14mm. The widths Wf and lengths
for both feeds are about one third of the slot size and
their lengths are close to but less than the quarter
wavelength measured at the lower frequency edge.
The lengths are shorter than a printed monopole at
the same frequency, because the slot edge acts as a
capacitive load to the monopole.
II.A.2 Square Patch with Wide Slot
The design view, simulation and
experimental results of square patch with wide slot
antenna are presented in this section.
Figure 3: Top-View of the Square patch antenna
with Wide slot (Design 1).
II.A.3 Simulation Results
Figure 4 shows the simulated return loss
curve. It can be seen that the antenna can be operated
from 1 to 12 GHz with a return loss better than 10dB.
The simulated radiation patterns are shown in Figures
5 and 6. The antenna offers maximum gain of 6.5dBi.
Figure 4: Simulated Return loss plot for Square
patch antenna with Wide slot.
II.A.4 Experimental Results
The measured plot shows that Design 1 has
very wide impedance bandwidths (S11 ≤ -10 dB),
which is 120% (1.9 GHz to 7.7 GHz). The antenna
was fabricated on two different substrates; Rogers
TMM4 and FR-4. The return loss plots taken from
VNA are shown in Figure 7. The antenna fabricated
on TMM4 substrate has an operating band from 1.9
GHz to 7.7GHz for S11 ≤ -10 dB (Figure 7 a). On
FR-4 the antenna has lesser bandwidth 2GHz to
6.4GHz. Therefore it is clear that antennas fabricated
on Rogers have good impedance bandwidth with
good return loss response when fabricated on FR-4 at
higher frequencies.
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Figure 5: Two-dimensional Radiation plot.
(a) Theta Cut Pattern. (b) Phi Cut Pattern.
Figure 6: Radiation Patterns of θand θplanes.
(a) On Rogers TMM4 Substrate.
(b) On FR4 Substrate.
Figure 7: Measured VNA Return loss plot for
Square patch antenna with Wide slot.
II.B.1 Triangle Patch with Triangular Slot
The design view [1] (Figure 8), simulation
and experimental results of triangle patch with
triangular slot antenna are presented in this section.
Figure 8: Top-View of the Triangle patch antenna
with Triangular slot (Design 2).
II.B.2 Simulation Results
The simulated return loss curve (Figure 9)
shows an operating band from 4.1GHz – 8.2GHz.
Figures 10 and 11 depict the simulated radiation
patterns. At the beam peak, the antenna has a gain of
2.5dBi within the operating bandwidths.
Figure 9: Simulated Return loss plot for Triangle
patch antenna with Triangular slot.
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Figure 10: Two-dimensional Radiation plot.
(a) Theta Cut Pattern. (b) Phi Cut Pattern.
Figure 11: Radiation Patterns of θand θplanes.
II.B.3 Experimental Results
The measured return loss (Figure 12) shows
that Design 2 has very wide impedance bandwidth,
which is 67% (5.95 to 9GHz) S11 ≤ -10 dB. From
Figure 12 it is clear that Rogers has good impedance
BW with good RL when compared with FR4. The
design was expected to get impedance BW >70%.
This inaccuracy was due to the fabrication error and
connector mismatch.
(a) On Rogers TMM4 Substrate
(b) On FR4 Substrate
Figure 12: Measured VNA Return loss plot for
Triangle patch antenna with Triangular slot.
II.B.4 Key Design Parameters
Slot & Feed Shapes:
Wide-slot antennas have different slot
shapes such as rectangular, square, circular; and
various feed shapes such as T, Cross, Fork-like, Bow-
tie, Radial stub, Pi, Double-T, Circular and
Rectangular. The antennas used in the study employ
Square and Triangular- patch feeds to excite the Arc
and Triangular- shape slots, respectively. These two
combinations are chosen because of their wide
impedance bandwidths and good radiation
characteristics.
Since a large slot is used in wide-slot
antenna, a high level of the electromagnetic coupling
to feed line results in very large bandwidth.
Therefore, varying the feed shape or slot shape will
change the coupling property and thus control the
impedance matching. It is noticed that the two
designs proposed share the same design rules. First,
the feed and slot shapes should be similar. Thus, a
square patch or fork-like feed works well for a
square-shape slot but not for a triangular-shape slot.
Secondly, the feed should occupy an area of about
one third of half of the slot size. This implies that the
distance between the edge of the feed and the slot is
very crucial for wide-band matching; in fact, it
should be gradually changed or kept constant.
Wide-slot antenna is known to have wide
impedance bandwidth but generally its operating
bandwidth is limited due to the degradation of the
radiation patterns at the upper edge of the impedance
bandwidth. Through the study on different slot
shapes, it is found that currents flowing on the edge
of the slot will increase the Cross-Polarization
component in the H-Plane and cause the main beam
to tilt away from the broadside direction in the E-
Plane. From the simulation, a square-patch fed
antenna matching with an Arc-shape slot can produce
better radiation patterns than with a Square-shape
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slot, even though both slot shapes match well with
the feed. The patterns of the antenna generated by
Triangular slots, among the different slot shapes, are
the most stable across the operating band.
To conclude, the antenna feed and slot
should be of similar shapes for optimum impedance
matching, but for better radiation patterns, a
triangular shape slot should be used.
Feed Gap h
The feed gap effect on the impedance
matching is investigated and it is found that good
impedance matching can be obtained by enhancing
the coupling between the feed and slot [6]. When the
coupling is increased to a certain value, an optimum
impedance bandwidth can be obtained. However, if
the coupling is further increased beyond this value,
the impedance matching will deteriorate; showing
that over coupling can degrade the impedance
matching as under Coupling. Figure 4 shows the
simulated return losses of Design 1 with feed gap of
1.2mm. It can be observed that the frequency
corresponding to the lower edge of the bandwidth is
fairly independent of the feed gap h, but the
frequency corresponding to the upper edge is heavily
dependent on it. Moreover, tapering the feed gap will
further increase the impedance bandwidth.
II.B.5 Outcome
Two microstrip-fed printed wide-slot
antennas have been developed and both of them can
offer over 100% impedance bandwidths and stable
radiation patterns across the whole bands. From the
investigation of various wide-slot antennas, it is
found that the substrate, feed and the slot make a
strong effect on the antenna’s impedance bandwidth
and the radiation patterns. Experimental results show
that by choosing suitable combinations of feed and
slot shapes and tuning their dimensions, good
impedance bandwidth and stable radiation patterns
can be obtained. Based on these findings, wide-slot
antennas can be further improved for wide-band
satellite and communications applications.
III. Planar Antenna (with partial ground
plane)
III.A Diamond Shaped Ultra Wide Band Planar
Antenna
This design is intended to instil more
compactness in printed antenna by manifesting
stepping and partial ground plane fed by a microstrip
line for ultra wideband mobile applications [2].
Figure 13 shows the Photo plots of diamond shaped
patch antenna for ultra wideband applications.
(a) Front View (b) Back View
Figure 13: The Diamond shaped Compact
antenna (Photo Plot).
A small (30 x 30 mm2
) printed microstrip
fed monopole antenna has been designed and
fabricated. Antenna parameters measurement of
return loss has been performed to test the validity of
simulation and verify eligibility of the antenna for
microwave imaging purpose.
Figure 14: Top-View of the Diamond shaped
Compact antenna (all dimensions are in mm).
III.A.1 Antenna Design
Figure 14 shows a diamond shaped compact
antenna [2] which is printed on Rogers substrate (εr =
3.38) with thickness 1.6 mm and size 30 x 30 mm2
and the antenna feeding structure is 50Ω microstrip
line. Several techniques have been adopted to acquire
large impedance bandwidth including a diamond like
triangular radiating patch with five steps of various
sizes and a partial ground plane. The physical
structure of five steps with various dimensions has
been adopted to increase the effective electrical
length at the lower frequency band (3-4 GHz).
Another theory that motivated the introduction of
steps and sharp edges is that sharp corners provide
current null at the edges, which leads to lower VSWR
at non-resonant frequencies. Therefore, it leads to
broader bandwidth. Moreover, triangular radiating
patch has more constant radiation characteristics over
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the wide frequency range compared to some other
patch shapes. The critical antenna parameters are
tabulated in Table 1.
Antenna
Parameter
s
Dimension
s (mm)
Antenna
Parameter
s
Dimension
s (mm)
W 30.00 Step 1 0.50 x 0.50
L 30.00 Step 2 0.50 x 0.75
S 2.72 Step 3 0.75 x 0.75
G 7.90 Step 4 0.75 x 0.75
P 21.00 Step 5 0.75 x 0.75
Q 15.00
Table 1: Critical Antenna Parameters.
III.A.2 Simulated and Experimental Results
The Return loss measurement of the
fabricated antenna was performed using Vector
Network Analyzer (VNA). The simulated and
measured plots of the return loss (Figures 15 and 16)
of the antenna show that measured impedance
bandwidth is 4.5 GHz (from 2.3 to 6.8 GHz), which
is equivalent to 100%. The difference in the
simulated and measured return loss can be attributed
to the intrinsic properties of Rogers’s substrate and
fabrication inaccuracies.
Figure 15: Simulated Return loss plot for
Diamond shaped Compact antenna.
Figure 16: Measured VNA Return loss plot of
Diamond shaped Compact antenna.
Figures 17 and 18 shows two dimensional
radiation patterns of the proposed antenna which
depict antenna’s omnidirectional pattern over wide
range of frequency.
Figure 17: Two-dimensional Radiation plot.
(a) Theta Cut Pattern. (b) Phi Cut
Pattern.
Figure 18: Radiation Patterns of θand θplanes.
III.A.3 Outcome
A printed microstrip feed UWB antenna
with good impedance bandwidth and stable radiation
characteristics is proposed. The antenna is compact
and useful.
IV. Coplanar Waveguide Fed Ultra
Wideband Antennas
IV.A.1 Cedar Patch Antenna
In this design [3], we present a UWB patch
antenna, which has advantages of smaller area, better
return loss in high frequency and higher gain in
normal direction of antenna plane. The proposed
antenna, with small size of 23.9 × 46.5 mm2
, is
designed to operate over the frequency band between
4.8 and 13.8 GHz. The photo plot of Cedar patch is
shown in Figure 19. The numerical simulation and
analysis for this antenna is performed using ‘High
Frequency Structure Simulator’ (HFSS), which is
based on the finite element method.
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(a) Front View (b) Back View
Figure 19: UWB Coplanar Waveguide-fed cedar
patch antenna (Photo Plot).
The CPW fed cedar patch antenna has a
single layer metallic structure, as shown in Figure
20.The different dimensions in the considered design
are listed in Table 2. The antenna and a 50 Ω CPW
are printed on the same side of a dielectric substrate.
W2 is the width of the metal strip and g is the gap of
distance between the strip and the coplanar ground
plane. L1 denote the length of the ground plane, h is
the feed gap between the cedar patch and the ground
plane, so W2 and g are fixed at 3.2 mm and 0.15 mm,
respectively, in order to achieve 50Ω impedance. In
this design we have used FR4 substrate having εr =
4.4, h=1.6mm.
Table 2: Dimensions of cedar patch antenna in
mm.
Figure 20: The Layout of Ultra Wideband
Coplanar Waveguide-fed Cedar Patch antenna.
The first parameter is the feed gap h. When
all the parameters are fixed, the performance of the
CPW fed patch antenna is quite sensitive to h. We are
trying to find the optimal value of h and we observed
that the -10dB return loss bandwidth of the antenna
varies significantly when h varies. When h increases,
the -10dB bandwidth becomes narrower due to the
fact that the impedance matching of the antenna is
getting worse. Looking across the whole spectrum, it
seems that a bigger gap doesn't affect the first
resonance very much, but has a much larger impact
on the higher harmonics. This suggests that the feed
gap affects more the travelling wave operation of the
antenna as shown in Figure 21. The optimal feed
gap is found to be at h=1mm.
Figure 21: Return loss v/s frequency as a function
of ‘h’.
Another design parameter influencing the
antenna operation is the width of the ground plane W.
The variation of the ground plane width shifts all the
resonance modes across the spectrum. It is interesting
to notice that the -10 dB bandwidth is reduced when
the width of the ground is either too wide or too
narrow. The optimal width of the ground plane is
found to be at W=46.5mm. When the ground plane
width is either reduced or increased from its optimal
size, so does the current flow on the top edge of the
ground plane. This corresponds to a decrease or
increase of the inductance of the antenna if it is
treated as a resonating circuit, which causes the first
resonance mode to shift either up or down in the
frequency band. Also, this change of inductance
causes the frequencies of the higher harmonics to be
unevenly shifted. Therefore, the change of the ground
plane width makes some resonances become not so
closely spaced across the spectrum and reduces the
overlapping between them. Thus, the impedance
matching becomes worse (RL >-10dB) in these
frequency ranges. This feature is illustrated in Figure
22.
It is also noticed that the performance of
the antenna is almost independent of the length L
of the ground plane.
W W1 W2 W3 L1 L3 L
46.5 21.5 3.2 5 16.9 8 1
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Figure 22: Return loss v/s frequency as a function
of ‘w’
IV.A.2 Simulated and Experimental Results
The designed antenna is fabricated using the
FR4 substrate having dielectric constant εr=4.4 and a
thickness of h= 1.6 mm. The simulated return loss
plot is shown in Figure 23 and the measured return
loss plot is shown in Figure 24. The measurements
are done using a vector network analyzer.
Figure 23: Simulated Return loss plot of UWB
Cedar patch antenna.
Figure 24: VNA Return Loss plot of UWB Cedar
patch antenna.
IV.A.3 Radiation Pattern
The simulated radiation patterns (Figures 25
and 26) at operating frequency have a bidirectional
radiation pattern with a main lobe magnitude of
4.2dBi.
Figure 25: Bidirectional Radiation Pattern.
Figure 26: Simulated 2-D Radiation Patterns.
IV.B.1 Rectangular Slot Antenna with U-Shaped
Tuning Stub
Coplanar waveguide (CPW) fed Ultra wide-
band slot antenna is presented [4]. The rectangular
slot antenna is excited by a 50Ω CPW with a U-
shaped tuning stub. The impedance bandwidth, from
both measurement and simulation is about 110% (S11
< -10dB). The antenna radiates bi-directionally. The
radiation patterns obtained from the simulations are
found to be stable across the matching band.
This design presents an ultra wide-band
coplanar waveguide-fed rectangular slot antenna on a
thin substrate. A U-shaped tuning stub is used to
enhance the bandwidth of the slot antenna. Measured
and simulated impedance bandwidth of 110% is
achieved for this antenna. The radiation patterns are
bi-directional. The patterns obtained from the
simulation are stable across the matching band and at
the high end of the band. An average gain of more
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than 2dBi is obtained. The simulation software used
is CST Microwave Studio.
The slot is etched at the center (Figure 27)
of a 10cm (~ 2 λ0) x 10cm (~ 2 λ0) ground plane. The
substrate has a dielectric constant εr = 3.38 and
thickness h=0.813 mm (0.017 λ0), where λ0 is the free
space wavelength at the center frequency 6.14 GHz.
The rectangular slot has a width Wr=32.2mm (0.65
λ0) and length Lr=21.1mm (0.43 λ0). A 50 Ω coplanar
waveguide with slot width Ws =0.125mm and center
conductor width Wf =1.88mm is used. In addition, a
U-shaped tuning stub embedded within the slot
terminates the CPW feed. The stub has a length of
Wstub =16mm and width Lstub =10mm.
Figure 27: Layout of Ultra Wideband Coplanar
Waveguide-fed Rectangular slot antenna. (All
dimensions in mm)
IV.B.2 Simulated and Experimental Results
Figures 28 and 29 shows the simulated and
measured return loss plots, respectively of the CPW-
fed slot antenna. The resonant frequencies of the
simulation and measurement results are in good
agreement within the matching frequency band
2.79GHz to 9.48GHz, which corresponds to an
impedance bandwidth of 110% (S11 < -10dB). The
wide bandwidths are due to the multiple resonances
introduced by the combination of the rectangular slot
and the U-shaped stub. Detailed studies of the effect
of the various parameters are lengthy, rigorous and
are beyond the scope of this project. Note that the slot
antenna radiates bi-directionally, with similar
radiation level in both the directions. The 3dB beam
widths at 3.15 GHz are 59.20
and 144.50
in the E-
plane and H-plane, respectively. The simulation
patterns are shown in Figures 30 and 31. Both the E-
plane and H-plane patterns give similar beam widths
and shapes. Notice the cross-polarization level
increases at 6GHz because the stub arm length is
close to a half wavelength around this frequency.
Also, it can be seen that the beam width is wider at
lower end of the frequency band. The average gain,
obtained from the simulation is about 3.5dBi ±
1.6dBi across the matching band.
Figure 28: Simulated Return loss plot of
Rectangular slot antenna with U-shaped tuning
stub.
Figure 29: VNA Return Loss plot of Rectangular
slot antenna with U-shaped tuning stub.
Figure 30: Three-dimensional Radiation Pattern,
Theta cut and the Phi cut.
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Figure 31: Polar Radiation Pattern, Theta cut and
the Phi cut.
V. Outcome on Analysis of different
UWB antennas
Type of
Antenna
Range
B.W
(in
Ghz)
Impeda
nce
B.W
S1,1(< -
10dB)
Ga
in
(in
dB
i)
Applicatio
ns
Square
Patch
with
Wide
Slot
1.9 –
7.7
(B.W=5
.8)
120% 2.5
Wireless
Communic
ations
Triangle
Patch
with
Triangu
lar Slot
4.1 –
8.2
(B.W=4
.1)
67% 2.5
Wireless
Communic
ations
Diamon
d
Shaped
Ultra
Wide
Band
Planar
Antenna
2.3 - 6.8
(B.W=4
.5)
100% 2.5
Mobile/
Wireless
Communic
ations.
Cedar
Patch
Antenna
3.6 –
12.4
(B.W=8
.8)
110% 4.2
Radar
Systems,
GPRs.
Rectang
ular Slot
Antenna
with U-
Shaped
Tuning
Stub
2.79 -
9.48
(B.W=6
.69)
110%
5.3
5
Defense/
Medical
Imaging
Applicatio
ns
VI. Conclusion
In this paper, five indigenous geometric
elements of Ultra Wideband printed antennas are
designed, fabricated and tested. A brief summary of
the simulated and experimentally observed results are
presented below:
The achieved characteristics of the Ultra
Wideband antennas are as follows:
 The antennas were observed to be operating at a
very wideband range with an impedance
bandwidth of 110% on an average. This value of
impedance bandwidth corresponds to Ultra
Wideband range (3.1GHz to 10.6GHz) especially
for wireless communication.
 The return loss response of the fabricated
antenna was found to be in good agreement with
that of the simulated one over the designed
frequency range.
 The designed antennas are very compact and
stable, so that it can be embedded even in
mobiles.
VII. Acknowledgements
We greatly acknowledge the support to our
project from Vidya Vikas Institute of Engineering
and Technology, Mysore. We thank BJ
Subbakrishna, Head of Department, Electronics and
Communication Engineering, who have been source
of motivation for us throughout the conduction of
research work. We also acknowledge with a deep
sense of reverence, our gratitude towards Dr.Bharathi
Bhat, Retired Professor, IIT Delhi who has been
source of inspiration to choose RF Communication
and antennas design as our research area.
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  • 1. Sumukha Prasad U et al Int. Journal of Engineering Research and Applications www.ijera.com ISSN : 2248-9622, Vol. 4, Issue 5( Version 2), May 2014, pp.72-82 www.ijera.com 72 | P a g e Simulation and Experimental Studies on Printed Ultra Wide Band Antennas Sumukha Prasad U, Prithvi Shankar N, Pramod D Harithsa, Preetham S B.E, (M Tech) in RVCE Mysore Road, Bangalore. B.E, (M Tech) in RVCE Mysore Road, Bangalore. B.E, (M Tech) in Coventry Infosys, Mysore. B.E in VVIET, Mysore. Abstract Printed patch antennas are generally planar, low mass and low profile radiating elements. Due to their possible conformity and simple manufacturing, printed antennas are interesting techniques for wide variety of applications like GPRs and See-through-the wall radars. Major disadvantages associated with this printed antennas are low gain and narrow bandwidth. However many broad banding techniques are in the literature such as aperture coupling using multi layer substrates, using parasitic elements etc... by its nature, for defense applications which challenges us to improve the bandwidth of the antenna without increasing the thickness of the substrate. One such method that facilitates our need is insertion of wide slots in the ground plane, steps in the planar patch and partial ground plane technique in order to make it to radiate bidirectionally. Index Terms: Coplanar Waveguide (CPW), Impedance Bandwidth, Micro Strip Antenna (MSA), Radiation Pattern, Ultra Wide Band (UWB), VNA Return Loss Plot. I. Introduction MSAs are attractive due to their light weight, conformability and low cost [5]. These can be integrated with printed strip-line feed networks and active devices. A major contributing factor for recent advances is the current revolution in electronic circuit miniaturization brought about by developments in large scale integration. MSA based on photolithographic technology [8] are seen as an engineering breakthrough. In its most fundamental form, a MSA consists of a radiating patch on one side of a dielectric substrate which has a ground plane on the other side. For a rectangular patch [7], the length L of the patch is usually 0.33λ0 < L < 0.5λ0, where λ0 is the free-space wavelength. The patch [6] is selected to be very thin such that t << λ0 (where t is patch thickness). The height h of dielectric substrate is usually 0.003λ0 ≤ h ≤ 0.05λ0.The dielectric constant of the substrate εr is typically in the range 2.2 ≤ εr ≤ 12. For good antenna performance, a thick dielectric substrate having a low dielectric constant is desirable since this provides better efficiency, larger bandwidth and better radiation. However, such a configuration leads to a larger antenna size. In order to design a compact MSA [8], substrates with higher εr must be used which are less efficient and result in narrower bandwidth. Hence a trade-off must be realized between the antenna dimensions and antenna performance. Here we use different Ultra wide band techniques to achieve greater bandwidth. The Simulator tool is CST studio (Finite Difference Time Domain) and HFSS (Finite Element Method). II. Planar Antenna( with slot in ground plane) II.A Printed Wide Slot Antennas Wide-Slot antenna [1] is superior in its wide-band characteristics. Together with its narrow slot counterpart, they form the two major members of the slot antenna family. Although many coplanar waveguide (CPW) - fed and microstrip-fed wide-slot antennas have been proposed for wide-band applications, studies on the effect of the interaction between feed and slot on impedance bandwidth and radiation patterns are rare. It was found that by choosing suitable combinations of feed and slot shapes and tuning their sizes, an optimum impedance bandwidth can be obtained, and more importantly, stable radiation patterns across the whole band can be achieved. The photo plots depicting the fabricated and engineered designs of Square patch antenna with wide slot and Triangle patch antenna with triangular slot are presented in Figures 1 and 2, respectively. RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS
  • 2. Sumukha Prasad U et al Int. Journal of Engineering Research and Applications www.ijera.com ISSN : 2248-9622, Vol. 4, Issue 5( Version 2), May 2014, pp.72-82 www.ijera.com 73 | P a g e (a) Front View (b) Back View Figure 1: Square patch antenna with Wide slot (Photo Plot). (a) Front View (b) Back View Figure 2: Triangle patch antenna with Triangular slot (Photo Plot). II.A.1 Antenna design The geometries of the two proposed antennas [1] were fabricated on the Rogers TMM4 (εr=4.4) and FR4 (εr=4.4) substrate. Design 1(Figure 3) has an Arc-Shaped slot (Semicircle Arc, radius 26.85mm) and a square-patch feed with edge length of 15mm; Design 2 (Figure 8) has a triangular-shape slot and an equilateral triangular-patch feed with an edge length Wp of 14mm. The widths Wf and lengths for both feeds are about one third of the slot size and their lengths are close to but less than the quarter wavelength measured at the lower frequency edge. The lengths are shorter than a printed monopole at the same frequency, because the slot edge acts as a capacitive load to the monopole. II.A.2 Square Patch with Wide Slot The design view, simulation and experimental results of square patch with wide slot antenna are presented in this section. Figure 3: Top-View of the Square patch antenna with Wide slot (Design 1). II.A.3 Simulation Results Figure 4 shows the simulated return loss curve. It can be seen that the antenna can be operated from 1 to 12 GHz with a return loss better than 10dB. The simulated radiation patterns are shown in Figures 5 and 6. The antenna offers maximum gain of 6.5dBi. Figure 4: Simulated Return loss plot for Square patch antenna with Wide slot. II.A.4 Experimental Results The measured plot shows that Design 1 has very wide impedance bandwidths (S11 ≤ -10 dB), which is 120% (1.9 GHz to 7.7 GHz). The antenna was fabricated on two different substrates; Rogers TMM4 and FR-4. The return loss plots taken from VNA are shown in Figure 7. The antenna fabricated on TMM4 substrate has an operating band from 1.9 GHz to 7.7GHz for S11 ≤ -10 dB (Figure 7 a). On FR-4 the antenna has lesser bandwidth 2GHz to 6.4GHz. Therefore it is clear that antennas fabricated on Rogers have good impedance bandwidth with good return loss response when fabricated on FR-4 at higher frequencies.
  • 3. Sumukha Prasad U et al Int. Journal of Engineering Research and Applications www.ijera.com ISSN : 2248-9622, Vol. 4, Issue 5( Version 2), May 2014, pp.72-82 www.ijera.com 74 | P a g e Figure 5: Two-dimensional Radiation plot. (a) Theta Cut Pattern. (b) Phi Cut Pattern. Figure 6: Radiation Patterns of θand θplanes. (a) On Rogers TMM4 Substrate. (b) On FR4 Substrate. Figure 7: Measured VNA Return loss plot for Square patch antenna with Wide slot. II.B.1 Triangle Patch with Triangular Slot The design view [1] (Figure 8), simulation and experimental results of triangle patch with triangular slot antenna are presented in this section. Figure 8: Top-View of the Triangle patch antenna with Triangular slot (Design 2). II.B.2 Simulation Results The simulated return loss curve (Figure 9) shows an operating band from 4.1GHz – 8.2GHz. Figures 10 and 11 depict the simulated radiation patterns. At the beam peak, the antenna has a gain of 2.5dBi within the operating bandwidths. Figure 9: Simulated Return loss plot for Triangle patch antenna with Triangular slot.
  • 4. Sumukha Prasad U et al Int. Journal of Engineering Research and Applications www.ijera.com ISSN : 2248-9622, Vol. 4, Issue 5( Version 2), May 2014, pp.72-82 www.ijera.com 75 | P a g e Figure 10: Two-dimensional Radiation plot. (a) Theta Cut Pattern. (b) Phi Cut Pattern. Figure 11: Radiation Patterns of θand θplanes. II.B.3 Experimental Results The measured return loss (Figure 12) shows that Design 2 has very wide impedance bandwidth, which is 67% (5.95 to 9GHz) S11 ≤ -10 dB. From Figure 12 it is clear that Rogers has good impedance BW with good RL when compared with FR4. The design was expected to get impedance BW >70%. This inaccuracy was due to the fabrication error and connector mismatch. (a) On Rogers TMM4 Substrate (b) On FR4 Substrate Figure 12: Measured VNA Return loss plot for Triangle patch antenna with Triangular slot. II.B.4 Key Design Parameters Slot & Feed Shapes: Wide-slot antennas have different slot shapes such as rectangular, square, circular; and various feed shapes such as T, Cross, Fork-like, Bow- tie, Radial stub, Pi, Double-T, Circular and Rectangular. The antennas used in the study employ Square and Triangular- patch feeds to excite the Arc and Triangular- shape slots, respectively. These two combinations are chosen because of their wide impedance bandwidths and good radiation characteristics. Since a large slot is used in wide-slot antenna, a high level of the electromagnetic coupling to feed line results in very large bandwidth. Therefore, varying the feed shape or slot shape will change the coupling property and thus control the impedance matching. It is noticed that the two designs proposed share the same design rules. First, the feed and slot shapes should be similar. Thus, a square patch or fork-like feed works well for a square-shape slot but not for a triangular-shape slot. Secondly, the feed should occupy an area of about one third of half of the slot size. This implies that the distance between the edge of the feed and the slot is very crucial for wide-band matching; in fact, it should be gradually changed or kept constant. Wide-slot antenna is known to have wide impedance bandwidth but generally its operating bandwidth is limited due to the degradation of the radiation patterns at the upper edge of the impedance bandwidth. Through the study on different slot shapes, it is found that currents flowing on the edge of the slot will increase the Cross-Polarization component in the H-Plane and cause the main beam to tilt away from the broadside direction in the E- Plane. From the simulation, a square-patch fed antenna matching with an Arc-shape slot can produce better radiation patterns than with a Square-shape
  • 5. Sumukha Prasad U et al Int. Journal of Engineering Research and Applications www.ijera.com ISSN : 2248-9622, Vol. 4, Issue 5( Version 2), May 2014, pp.72-82 www.ijera.com 76 | P a g e slot, even though both slot shapes match well with the feed. The patterns of the antenna generated by Triangular slots, among the different slot shapes, are the most stable across the operating band. To conclude, the antenna feed and slot should be of similar shapes for optimum impedance matching, but for better radiation patterns, a triangular shape slot should be used. Feed Gap h The feed gap effect on the impedance matching is investigated and it is found that good impedance matching can be obtained by enhancing the coupling between the feed and slot [6]. When the coupling is increased to a certain value, an optimum impedance bandwidth can be obtained. However, if the coupling is further increased beyond this value, the impedance matching will deteriorate; showing that over coupling can degrade the impedance matching as under Coupling. Figure 4 shows the simulated return losses of Design 1 with feed gap of 1.2mm. It can be observed that the frequency corresponding to the lower edge of the bandwidth is fairly independent of the feed gap h, but the frequency corresponding to the upper edge is heavily dependent on it. Moreover, tapering the feed gap will further increase the impedance bandwidth. II.B.5 Outcome Two microstrip-fed printed wide-slot antennas have been developed and both of them can offer over 100% impedance bandwidths and stable radiation patterns across the whole bands. From the investigation of various wide-slot antennas, it is found that the substrate, feed and the slot make a strong effect on the antenna’s impedance bandwidth and the radiation patterns. Experimental results show that by choosing suitable combinations of feed and slot shapes and tuning their dimensions, good impedance bandwidth and stable radiation patterns can be obtained. Based on these findings, wide-slot antennas can be further improved for wide-band satellite and communications applications. III. Planar Antenna (with partial ground plane) III.A Diamond Shaped Ultra Wide Band Planar Antenna This design is intended to instil more compactness in printed antenna by manifesting stepping and partial ground plane fed by a microstrip line for ultra wideband mobile applications [2]. Figure 13 shows the Photo plots of diamond shaped patch antenna for ultra wideband applications. (a) Front View (b) Back View Figure 13: The Diamond shaped Compact antenna (Photo Plot). A small (30 x 30 mm2 ) printed microstrip fed monopole antenna has been designed and fabricated. Antenna parameters measurement of return loss has been performed to test the validity of simulation and verify eligibility of the antenna for microwave imaging purpose. Figure 14: Top-View of the Diamond shaped Compact antenna (all dimensions are in mm). III.A.1 Antenna Design Figure 14 shows a diamond shaped compact antenna [2] which is printed on Rogers substrate (εr = 3.38) with thickness 1.6 mm and size 30 x 30 mm2 and the antenna feeding structure is 50Ω microstrip line. Several techniques have been adopted to acquire large impedance bandwidth including a diamond like triangular radiating patch with five steps of various sizes and a partial ground plane. The physical structure of five steps with various dimensions has been adopted to increase the effective electrical length at the lower frequency band (3-4 GHz). Another theory that motivated the introduction of steps and sharp edges is that sharp corners provide current null at the edges, which leads to lower VSWR at non-resonant frequencies. Therefore, it leads to broader bandwidth. Moreover, triangular radiating patch has more constant radiation characteristics over
  • 6. Sumukha Prasad U et al Int. Journal of Engineering Research and Applications www.ijera.com ISSN : 2248-9622, Vol. 4, Issue 5( Version 2), May 2014, pp.72-82 www.ijera.com 77 | P a g e the wide frequency range compared to some other patch shapes. The critical antenna parameters are tabulated in Table 1. Antenna Parameter s Dimension s (mm) Antenna Parameter s Dimension s (mm) W 30.00 Step 1 0.50 x 0.50 L 30.00 Step 2 0.50 x 0.75 S 2.72 Step 3 0.75 x 0.75 G 7.90 Step 4 0.75 x 0.75 P 21.00 Step 5 0.75 x 0.75 Q 15.00 Table 1: Critical Antenna Parameters. III.A.2 Simulated and Experimental Results The Return loss measurement of the fabricated antenna was performed using Vector Network Analyzer (VNA). The simulated and measured plots of the return loss (Figures 15 and 16) of the antenna show that measured impedance bandwidth is 4.5 GHz (from 2.3 to 6.8 GHz), which is equivalent to 100%. The difference in the simulated and measured return loss can be attributed to the intrinsic properties of Rogers’s substrate and fabrication inaccuracies. Figure 15: Simulated Return loss plot for Diamond shaped Compact antenna. Figure 16: Measured VNA Return loss plot of Diamond shaped Compact antenna. Figures 17 and 18 shows two dimensional radiation patterns of the proposed antenna which depict antenna’s omnidirectional pattern over wide range of frequency. Figure 17: Two-dimensional Radiation plot. (a) Theta Cut Pattern. (b) Phi Cut Pattern. Figure 18: Radiation Patterns of θand θplanes. III.A.3 Outcome A printed microstrip feed UWB antenna with good impedance bandwidth and stable radiation characteristics is proposed. The antenna is compact and useful. IV. Coplanar Waveguide Fed Ultra Wideband Antennas IV.A.1 Cedar Patch Antenna In this design [3], we present a UWB patch antenna, which has advantages of smaller area, better return loss in high frequency and higher gain in normal direction of antenna plane. The proposed antenna, with small size of 23.9 × 46.5 mm2 , is designed to operate over the frequency band between 4.8 and 13.8 GHz. The photo plot of Cedar patch is shown in Figure 19. The numerical simulation and analysis for this antenna is performed using ‘High Frequency Structure Simulator’ (HFSS), which is based on the finite element method.
  • 7. Sumukha Prasad U et al Int. Journal of Engineering Research and Applications www.ijera.com ISSN : 2248-9622, Vol. 4, Issue 5( Version 2), May 2014, pp.72-82 www.ijera.com 78 | P a g e (a) Front View (b) Back View Figure 19: UWB Coplanar Waveguide-fed cedar patch antenna (Photo Plot). The CPW fed cedar patch antenna has a single layer metallic structure, as shown in Figure 20.The different dimensions in the considered design are listed in Table 2. The antenna and a 50 Ω CPW are printed on the same side of a dielectric substrate. W2 is the width of the metal strip and g is the gap of distance between the strip and the coplanar ground plane. L1 denote the length of the ground plane, h is the feed gap between the cedar patch and the ground plane, so W2 and g are fixed at 3.2 mm and 0.15 mm, respectively, in order to achieve 50Ω impedance. In this design we have used FR4 substrate having εr = 4.4, h=1.6mm. Table 2: Dimensions of cedar patch antenna in mm. Figure 20: The Layout of Ultra Wideband Coplanar Waveguide-fed Cedar Patch antenna. The first parameter is the feed gap h. When all the parameters are fixed, the performance of the CPW fed patch antenna is quite sensitive to h. We are trying to find the optimal value of h and we observed that the -10dB return loss bandwidth of the antenna varies significantly when h varies. When h increases, the -10dB bandwidth becomes narrower due to the fact that the impedance matching of the antenna is getting worse. Looking across the whole spectrum, it seems that a bigger gap doesn't affect the first resonance very much, but has a much larger impact on the higher harmonics. This suggests that the feed gap affects more the travelling wave operation of the antenna as shown in Figure 21. The optimal feed gap is found to be at h=1mm. Figure 21: Return loss v/s frequency as a function of ‘h’. Another design parameter influencing the antenna operation is the width of the ground plane W. The variation of the ground plane width shifts all the resonance modes across the spectrum. It is interesting to notice that the -10 dB bandwidth is reduced when the width of the ground is either too wide or too narrow. The optimal width of the ground plane is found to be at W=46.5mm. When the ground plane width is either reduced or increased from its optimal size, so does the current flow on the top edge of the ground plane. This corresponds to a decrease or increase of the inductance of the antenna if it is treated as a resonating circuit, which causes the first resonance mode to shift either up or down in the frequency band. Also, this change of inductance causes the frequencies of the higher harmonics to be unevenly shifted. Therefore, the change of the ground plane width makes some resonances become not so closely spaced across the spectrum and reduces the overlapping between them. Thus, the impedance matching becomes worse (RL >-10dB) in these frequency ranges. This feature is illustrated in Figure 22. It is also noticed that the performance of the antenna is almost independent of the length L of the ground plane. W W1 W2 W3 L1 L3 L 46.5 21.5 3.2 5 16.9 8 1
  • 8. Sumukha Prasad U et al Int. Journal of Engineering Research and Applications www.ijera.com ISSN : 2248-9622, Vol. 4, Issue 5( Version 2), May 2014, pp.72-82 www.ijera.com 79 | P a g e Figure 22: Return loss v/s frequency as a function of ‘w’ IV.A.2 Simulated and Experimental Results The designed antenna is fabricated using the FR4 substrate having dielectric constant εr=4.4 and a thickness of h= 1.6 mm. The simulated return loss plot is shown in Figure 23 and the measured return loss plot is shown in Figure 24. The measurements are done using a vector network analyzer. Figure 23: Simulated Return loss plot of UWB Cedar patch antenna. Figure 24: VNA Return Loss plot of UWB Cedar patch antenna. IV.A.3 Radiation Pattern The simulated radiation patterns (Figures 25 and 26) at operating frequency have a bidirectional radiation pattern with a main lobe magnitude of 4.2dBi. Figure 25: Bidirectional Radiation Pattern. Figure 26: Simulated 2-D Radiation Patterns. IV.B.1 Rectangular Slot Antenna with U-Shaped Tuning Stub Coplanar waveguide (CPW) fed Ultra wide- band slot antenna is presented [4]. The rectangular slot antenna is excited by a 50Ω CPW with a U- shaped tuning stub. The impedance bandwidth, from both measurement and simulation is about 110% (S11 < -10dB). The antenna radiates bi-directionally. The radiation patterns obtained from the simulations are found to be stable across the matching band. This design presents an ultra wide-band coplanar waveguide-fed rectangular slot antenna on a thin substrate. A U-shaped tuning stub is used to enhance the bandwidth of the slot antenna. Measured and simulated impedance bandwidth of 110% is achieved for this antenna. The radiation patterns are bi-directional. The patterns obtained from the simulation are stable across the matching band and at the high end of the band. An average gain of more
  • 9. Sumukha Prasad U et al Int. Journal of Engineering Research and Applications www.ijera.com ISSN : 2248-9622, Vol. 4, Issue 5( Version 2), May 2014, pp.72-82 www.ijera.com 80 | P a g e than 2dBi is obtained. The simulation software used is CST Microwave Studio. The slot is etched at the center (Figure 27) of a 10cm (~ 2 λ0) x 10cm (~ 2 λ0) ground plane. The substrate has a dielectric constant εr = 3.38 and thickness h=0.813 mm (0.017 λ0), where λ0 is the free space wavelength at the center frequency 6.14 GHz. The rectangular slot has a width Wr=32.2mm (0.65 λ0) and length Lr=21.1mm (0.43 λ0). A 50 Ω coplanar waveguide with slot width Ws =0.125mm and center conductor width Wf =1.88mm is used. In addition, a U-shaped tuning stub embedded within the slot terminates the CPW feed. The stub has a length of Wstub =16mm and width Lstub =10mm. Figure 27: Layout of Ultra Wideband Coplanar Waveguide-fed Rectangular slot antenna. (All dimensions in mm) IV.B.2 Simulated and Experimental Results Figures 28 and 29 shows the simulated and measured return loss plots, respectively of the CPW- fed slot antenna. The resonant frequencies of the simulation and measurement results are in good agreement within the matching frequency band 2.79GHz to 9.48GHz, which corresponds to an impedance bandwidth of 110% (S11 < -10dB). The wide bandwidths are due to the multiple resonances introduced by the combination of the rectangular slot and the U-shaped stub. Detailed studies of the effect of the various parameters are lengthy, rigorous and are beyond the scope of this project. Note that the slot antenna radiates bi-directionally, with similar radiation level in both the directions. The 3dB beam widths at 3.15 GHz are 59.20 and 144.50 in the E- plane and H-plane, respectively. The simulation patterns are shown in Figures 30 and 31. Both the E- plane and H-plane patterns give similar beam widths and shapes. Notice the cross-polarization level increases at 6GHz because the stub arm length is close to a half wavelength around this frequency. Also, it can be seen that the beam width is wider at lower end of the frequency band. The average gain, obtained from the simulation is about 3.5dBi ± 1.6dBi across the matching band. Figure 28: Simulated Return loss plot of Rectangular slot antenna with U-shaped tuning stub. Figure 29: VNA Return Loss plot of Rectangular slot antenna with U-shaped tuning stub. Figure 30: Three-dimensional Radiation Pattern, Theta cut and the Phi cut.
  • 10. Sumukha Prasad U et al Int. Journal of Engineering Research and Applications www.ijera.com ISSN : 2248-9622, Vol. 4, Issue 5( Version 2), May 2014, pp.72-82 www.ijera.com 81 | P a g e Figure 31: Polar Radiation Pattern, Theta cut and the Phi cut. V. Outcome on Analysis of different UWB antennas Type of Antenna Range B.W (in Ghz) Impeda nce B.W S1,1(< - 10dB) Ga in (in dB i) Applicatio ns Square Patch with Wide Slot 1.9 – 7.7 (B.W=5 .8) 120% 2.5 Wireless Communic ations Triangle Patch with Triangu lar Slot 4.1 – 8.2 (B.W=4 .1) 67% 2.5 Wireless Communic ations Diamon d Shaped Ultra Wide Band Planar Antenna 2.3 - 6.8 (B.W=4 .5) 100% 2.5 Mobile/ Wireless Communic ations. Cedar Patch Antenna 3.6 – 12.4 (B.W=8 .8) 110% 4.2 Radar Systems, GPRs. Rectang ular Slot Antenna with U- Shaped Tuning Stub 2.79 - 9.48 (B.W=6 .69) 110% 5.3 5 Defense/ Medical Imaging Applicatio ns VI. Conclusion In this paper, five indigenous geometric elements of Ultra Wideband printed antennas are designed, fabricated and tested. A brief summary of the simulated and experimentally observed results are presented below: The achieved characteristics of the Ultra Wideband antennas are as follows:  The antennas were observed to be operating at a very wideband range with an impedance bandwidth of 110% on an average. This value of impedance bandwidth corresponds to Ultra Wideband range (3.1GHz to 10.6GHz) especially for wireless communication.  The return loss response of the fabricated antenna was found to be in good agreement with that of the simulated one over the designed frequency range.  The designed antennas are very compact and stable, so that it can be embedded even in mobiles. VII. Acknowledgements We greatly acknowledge the support to our project from Vidya Vikas Institute of Engineering and Technology, Mysore. We thank BJ Subbakrishna, Head of Department, Electronics and Communication Engineering, who have been source of motivation for us throughout the conduction of research work. We also acknowledge with a deep sense of reverence, our gratitude towards Dr.Bharathi Bhat, Retired Professor, IIT Delhi who has been source of inspiration to choose RF Communication and antennas design as our research area.
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