A compact circularly polarized isosceles triangular microstrip patch antenna with parasitic elements for multiband application

Abstract

Abstract In this research paper, a isosceles triangular radiating patch with two triangular coplanar parasitic elements has been used to design a compact circularly polarized (CP) microstrip patch antenna that can be used for (2.320‐2.345 GHz) satellite digital audio radio systems (SDARS), (2.30‐2.39 GHz) wireless broadband (WiBro), LTE 2300 (2.3‐2.4 GHz), and WIMAX (2.50‐2.69 GHz) application band. Corners of the two parasitic element along with a portion of driver patch has been cut and optimize to obtain CP characteristics of the antenna with broadside radiation pattern. A slot is also introduced and optimized on the radiating patch to improve the impedance matching. Frequency band generated by the antenna is (2.09‐2.64 GHz) having impedance bandwidth of (S 11 ≤ −10 dB) 550 MHz 23.25% and two 3‐dB axial ratio (AR) bandwidth of 5.1% (2.29‐2.41GHz) and 1.54% (2.58‐2.62 GHz). The size of proposed antenna is 56 × 52 × 3.2 mm 3 in which, FR4 material has been used as dielectric substrate and thin copper plate as radiating patch and ground. Before physical fabrication, HFSS ver13 software has been used to design and analyzed the proposed antenna. It has been found that the measured results of fabricated antenna and simulated results are closely matching.