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CHAPTER 1
Introduction
The term “wireless” is commonly used in the telecommunications industry to refer
to telecommunications systems (e.g., radio transmitters and receivers, remote controls,
computer networks, network terminals, etc.) which use some form of energy (e.g. Radio
frequency (RF), infrared light, laser light, visible light, acoustic energy, etc.) to transfer
information without the use of wires. Information is transferred in this manner over both
short and long distances. Applications may involve point-to-point communication, point-
to-multipoint communication, broadcasting, cellular networks and other wireless
networks.
Antenna is a very important component for the wireless communication systems
using radio frequency and microwaves. By definition, an antenna is a device used to
transform an RF signal, traveling on a conductor, into an electromagnetic wave in free
space. The IEEE Standard Definitions of Terms for Antennas (IEEE Standard 145-1983)
defines the antenna or aerial as “a means for radiating or receiving radio waves”. In other
words it is a transitional structure between free space and a guiding device that is made to
efficiently radiate and receive radiated electromagnetic waves. Antennas are commonly
used in radio, television broadcasting, cell phones, radar and other systems involving the
use of electromagnetic waves. Antennas demonstrate a property known as reciprocity,
which means that an antenna will maintain the same characteristics regardless if it is
transmitting or receiving.
With Advance of wireless communication systems and increasing importance of
other wireless applications, wide band and low profile antennas are in great demand for
both commercial and military applications. For antenna design that possess the following
highly desirable attributes: i) Compact size ii) Low profile iii) Conformal iv) Multiband
and broadband, there are a variety of approaches that have been developed over years,
which can be utilized to achieve one or more of these design objectives. The use of fractal
geometry is a solution to the design of multiband antennas. In recent years several fractal
geometries have been introduced for antenna applications with varying degrees of success
in improving antenna characteristics. Fractal represents a class of geometry with very
unique properties that are useful to antenna designers. The efficient packing of this
electrically large element constitutes a miniaturization technique to produce small-size
elements suitable for installation in portable telecommunication devices. The space filling
CHAPTER 2
Antenna theory
2.1 Introduction
Communications has become the key to momentous changes in the organization
of businesses and industries as they themselves adjust to the shift to an information
economy. Information is indeed the lifeblood of modern economies and antennas provide
mother earth a solution to a wireless communication system.
The radio antenna is an essential component in any radio system. An antenna is a
device that provides a means for radiating or receiving radio waves. In other words, it
provides a transition from guided waves on a transmission line to a “free space” wave
(and vice versa in the receiving case). Thus information can be transferred between
different locations without any intervening structure. Furthermore, antennas are required
in situations where it is impossible, impractical or uneconomical to provide guiding
structures between the transmitter and the receiver.
A guided wave traveling along a transmission line, which opens out as in figure
2.1, will radiate as free space wave. The guided wave is a plane wave while the free space
wave is a spherically expanding wave. Along the uniform part of the line, energy is
guided, as a plane wave with little loss, provided the spacing between the wires is a small
fraction of a wavelength. At the right, as the transmission line separation approaches a
wavelength or more, the wave tends to be radiated so that the opened-out line acts like an
antenna, which launched the free space wave. The currents on the transmission line flow
out on the transmission line and end there, but the fields associated with them keep on
going. To be more explicit, the region of transition between the guided wave and the free
space wave may be defined as an antenna.
In this vast and dynamic field, the antenna technology has been an indispensable
partner of the communication revolution. Many major advances that took place over the
years are now in common use. Despite numerous challenges, the antenna technology has
grown with a fast pace to harass the electromagnetic spectrum, which is one of the
greatest gifts of nature.
Equation-2.1
Gain is achieved by directing the radiation away from other parts of the radiation sphere.
In general, gain is defined as the gain-biased pattern of the antenna.
Equation-2.2
Equation-2.3
Directivity and gain differ only by the efficiency, but directivity is easily estimated from
patterns. Gain—directivity times efficiency—must be measured. The average radiation
intensity can be found from a surface integral over theradiation sphere of the radiation
intensity divided by 4π, the area of the sphere in steradians:
Equation-2.4
This is the radiated power divided by the area of a unit sphere. The radiation intensity
U(θ,φ) separates into a sum of co- and cross-polarization components:
Equation-2.5
Both co- and cross-polarization directivities can be defined:
Equation-2.6
Equation-2.7
where Pr is the radiated power. Material losses in the antenna or reflected power due to
poor impedance match reduce the radiated power.
2.2.5 Polarization
The polarization of an antenna is the polarization of the wave radiated from the
antenna. Areceiving antenna has to be in the same polarization as the transmitting antenna
otherwise it will not resonate. Polarization is a property of the electromagnetic wave; it
describes the magnitude and direction of the electric field vector as a function of time,
with other words “the orientation of the electric field for a given position in space”. A
simple strait wire has one polarization when mounted vertically, and different polarization
when mounted horizontally figure (2.2). Polarization can be classified as linear, circular,
and elliptical.
In linear polarization the antenna radiates power in the plane of propagation, only
one plane, the antenna is vertically linear polarized when the electric field is
perpendicular to the earth’s surface, and horizontally linear polarized when the electric
field is parallel to the earth’s surface. Circular polarization antenna radiates power in all
planes in the direction of propagation(vertical, horizontal, and between them). The plane
of propagation rotates in circle making one complete cycle in one period of wave.
2.2.8 Beamwidth
Beamwidth of an antenna is easily determined from its 2D radiation pattern and is
also a very important parameter. Beamwidth is the angular separation of the half-power
points of the radiated pattern. The way in which beamwidth is determined is shown in
figure 2.6.
Figure 2.7 - The vertical dipole and its electromagnetic equivalent, the vertical
monopole
2.3.2 Corner Reflector
An antenna comprised of one or more dipole elements in front of a corner
reflector, called the corner-reflector antenna, is illustrated in figure 2.8.
Figure 2.9 - The Yagi antenna — (a) three elements and (b) multiple elements
CHAPTER 3
Microstrip patch antennas
A microstrip antenna consists of conducting patch on a ground plane separated by
dielectric substrate. This concept was undeveloped until the revolution in electronic
circuit miniaturization and large-scale integration in 1970. After that many authors have
described the radiation from the ground plane by a dielectric substrate for different
configurations. The early work of Munson on micro strip antennas for use as a low profile
flush mounted antennas on rockets and missiles showed that this was a practical concept
for use in many antenna system problems. Various mathematical models were developed
for this antenna and its applications were extended to many other fields. The number of
papers, articles published in the journals for the last ten years, on these antennas shows
the importance gained by them. The micro strip antennas are the present day antenna
designer’s choice.
Low dielectric constant substrates are generally preferred for maximum radiation.
The conducting patch can take any shape but rectangular and circular configurations are
the most commonly used configuration. Other configurations are complex to analyze and
require heavy numerical computations. A microstrip antenna is characterized by its
Length, Width, Input impedance, and Gain and radiation patterns. Various parameters of
the microstrip antenna and its design considerations were discussed in the subsequent
chapters. The length of the antenna is nearly half wavelength in the dielectric; it is a very
critical parameter, which governs the resonant frequency of the antenna. There are no
hard and fast rules to find the width of the patch.
The patch is generally made of conducting material such as copper or gold and can take
any possible shape. Some of the typical patch shapes are shown in Fig. 3.5.
phone, pagers etc. to telemetry and communication antennas on missiles and in satellite
communications.
Some of their principal advantages are,
Light weight and low volume
Low profile planar configuration which can be easily made conformal to host
surface
Low fabrication cost, hence can be manufactured in large quantities
Supports both, linear as well as circular polarization
Can be easily integrated with microwave integrated circuits (MICs)
Capable of dual and triple frequency operations
Mechanically robust when mounted on rigid surfaces
In spite of the many advantages, these antennas also suffer from a number of
disadvantages.
Figure 3.6 - A Type of Microstrip feed and the corresponding equivalent circuits,
Microstrip feed at a radiating edge
soldered to the radiating patch, while the outer conductor is connected to the ground
plane.
line is shown in Fig. 3.9 while the electric field lines associated with it are shown in Fig.
3.10.
Equation - 3.1
Where εreff denotes effective dielectric constant, εr stands for dielectric constant of
substrate, h represents height of dielectric substrate, and W identifies width of the patch.
Figure 3.11 shows the transmission line model for patch antenna, where Fig.
3.11(a) is the patch antenna, Fig. 3.11(b) is the top view and Fig. 3.11(c) is the side view
of the antenna.
open ends. The fields at the edges can be resolved into normal and tangential components
with respect to the ground plane.
It is seen from Fig 3.11(c) that the normal components of the electric field at the
two edges along the width are in opposite directions and thus out of phase since the patch
is λ / 2 long and hence they cancel each other in the broadside direction. The tangential
components (seen in Fig 3.11(c)), which are in phase, means that the resulting fields
combine to give maximum radiated field normal to the surface of the structure. Hence the
edges along the width can be represented as two radiating slots, which areλ / 2 apart and
excited in phase and radiating in the half space above the ground plane. The fringing
fields along the width can be modeled as radiating slots and electrically the patch of the
microstrip antenna looks greater than its physical dimensions.
microstrip antenna. This structure designed by drill periodic holes on dielectric subtracts
to introduce another dielectric but in practical, this structure is difficult to implement.
Metallodielectric structure is exhibits an attractive reflection phase future where the
reflected field change continuously from 180 degrees to -180 degrees versus frequency. It
was allow a low profile wire antenna to radiate efficiently with enhance bandwidth,
radiation pattern, gain, reduce back radiation and reduce size lobe.
EBG structure can be design by various shapes and every shape will have
different frequency band gap. Something special of the EBG structure is it can be
designed which has a characteristic whether it is inductive or more capacitive.
Photonics band gap materials are new class of periodic dielectrics, which arethe
photonics analogs of semiconductors. Electromagnetic waves behave in photonics
substrates as electrons behave in semiconductors. Various type of periodic loading of
substrates has been studied to realize the PBG nature of the substrate. Early attempts
involved drilling a periodic pattern of holes in the substrate or etching a periodic pattern
of circle in the ground plane. Next, a periodic pattern of the metallic pads was shorted to
the ground plane with vias. Recently, a new loading pattern has been studied. This type of
planar or 2-D loading is simple to realize (no via are necessary) and is compatible with
standard monolithic microwaves integrated circuit fabrication technology.
The transmission coefficient of a PBG substrate is characterized by a band gap or
stop band region. The transmission and reflection coefficient of a microstrip line in PBG
substrate with circles etched in the ground plane are shown like figure 3.16.
Figure 3.15 - Square lattice of etched circles Figure 3.16 – Square lattice of small
in the ground plane metal pads with grounding vias in the
center
Equation – 3.2
Where;
Equation – 3.3
Equation – 3.4
The bandwidth of the electromagnetic band gap is given by;
Equation – 3.5
Therefore, the antenna with EBG structure operates at a lower frequency compared to the
antenna without EBG structure. Normally, when design the microstrip antenna operates at
lower frequency, the larger size of substrate needed. So, the EBG structure can reduce the
size of the antenna and the fabrication cost. Next, the EBG structure can enhance the
bandwidth of the original antenna structure.
CHAPTER 4
Fractals
“A fractal is a shape made of parts similar to the whole in some way”
theory for the purpose of investigating a new class of radiation, propagation and
scattering problems. One of the most promising area fractal electrodynamics re-searches
is in its application to antenna theory and design. There are varieties of approaches that
have been developed over the years, which can be utilized to archive one or more of these
design objectives. The development of fractal geometry came largely from an in depth
study of the pattern nature, with the advance of wireless communication system and their
increasing importance wide band and low profile antennas are in great demand for both
commercial and military applications. A fractal is a rough or fragmented geometric shape
that can be split into parts, each of which is a reduced-size copy of the whole and this
property is called self -similarity. Fractal geometries are composite designs that repeat
themselves or their statistical characteristics and are thus “self-similar” fractal geometry
finds a variety of applications in engineering. Fractal geometry is space filling contours of
regular or irregular shapes, and is super imposed of too much iteration and they describe
the self-similar property of fractal geometry. Fractals are a class of shapes which have not
characteristic size. Each fractal is composed of multiple iterations of a single elementary
shape the iteration can continue infinitely, thus forming a shape within a finite boundary
but of infinite length or area.
as a base shape and in first iteration four other plus shape patches of the order of 1/3 of
base shape are placed touching the base shape. Similarly second iterations are taken by
further placing plus shaped patches at even reduced scales. It is found that as the iteration
number and iteration factor increases, the resonance frequencies become lower than those
of the zero iteration, which represents a conventional plus shape patch.
(d)
Figure 4.1 - Self- similar Fractal structures (a) initiator (b) 1st iteration (c) 2nd
iteration (d) 3rd iteration
In mathematics, a self- similar object is exactly or approximately similar to a part of itself
(i.e. the whole has the same shape as one or more of the parts).
(a) (b)
(c) (d)
Figure 4.2 - Self- affine Fractal structures (a) initiator (b) 1st iteration (c) 2nd
iteration (d) 3rd iteration
A Self-affine set, on the other hand, is a contraction which reduces an image by
different factors, horizontally and vertically. Thus, it can provide additional flexibility in
the antenna design, since by selecting the scale factors appropriately, resonances can be
spaced by different factors.
4 k
L = (3) Equation – 4.1
4.8.2 Applications
Fractal antennas provide optimal design solutions for commercial applications
like-wireless network, telematics, RFID, portable devices, automated meter
reading.
It is used in defense applications such as electronic warfare, signal intelligence,
tactical communications.
CHAPTER 5
Antenna design
5.1 Design Specifications
The three essential parameters for the design of a rectangular Microstrip Patch Antenna
are:
Frequency of operation (fₒ): The resonant frequency of the antenna must be selected
according to our applications. We use the resonating frequency as 2 GHz for our
design. This frequency range is used for wireless applications.
Dielectric constant of the substrate (εr): Glass Epoxy is used in our design with
dielectric constant of 4.4.
Height of dielectric substrate (h): Height of dielectric substrate controls the
bandwidth. The value of h used in our design is 1.6mm.
εr=4.4
h=1.6mm
Equation – 5.1
Substituting c = 3e8 m/s, εr= 4.4 and fₒ = 2GHz, we get
W=45.6mm.
Equation – 5.2
Substituting εr = 4.4, W = 45.6mm and h = 1.6mm we get
εreff = 4.126.
Equation – 5.3
Substituting c = 3e8 m/s, εreff = 4.126 and fₒ = 2GHz, we get
Leff = 36.92mm.
Equation – 5.4
Substituting εreff = 4.126, W= 45.6mm and h = 1.6mm we get:
ΔL = 0.0740mm.
L=35.44mm.
approximately six times the substrate thickness all around the periphery. Hence, for this
design, the ground plane dimensions would be given as:
Lg = 6h + L=6 (1.6) + 72.33=81.93mm Equation – 5.9
Wg = 6h + W=6 (1.6) + 45.6=55.2mm Equation – 5.10
5.3Applications of IE3D
It is used for the design of
Microwave circuits and MMICs.
RF circuits and RFIDs.
Microwave, RF and wireless antennas.
PCB, electronic packaging and signal integrity.
START
LITERATURE
Review
Dimension Calculation
Simulation
Analysis
Expected
Results?
Fabricate
Measurement using
Network Analyzer
Comparing simulation
And practical result
END
CHAPTER 6
Simulated and practical results
We have designed two antennas with 2 iterations on each antenna along with base
reference antenna. Here are our antennas with their nomenclature.
Here we have taken rectangular patch as the reference antenna and carried out
2 further iterations on it with a scale factor of 1/4 to form self – affine fractal geometry on
reference antenna along with EBG structure.
Figure 6.33 – Gain of Single Element Figure 6.34 – Gain of Antenna Array
Figure 6.35 – Gain without EBG Figure 6.36 - Gain with EBG
Here we can see that by the use of 2 – Elemental array for antenna design, the gain
of the antenna has been improved by a factor of 3 compared to single element antenna
reference. Similarly, we got gain improvement with other iterations of design. Hence, we
can conclude that performance of single element antenna will improve with the increase
in the number of antenna elements used in the antenna design.
In a similar way, when we compared the gains of antenna with EBG structure and
antenna without EBG structure, gain of the antenna is been improved with the EBG
structure by a factor of around 2. Therefore we can conclude that, the use of EBG
structure in the antenna design will improve its performance in a good manner.
ANTENNA ARRAY
Reference 1.99 -15.48 1.98 -21.79
CONCLUSION
Rectangular microstrip antenna array and rectangular microstrip antenna with
square EBG structure are designed using the appropriate design formulae and is
fabricated using quick fabrication procedure, then it is tested using the vector network
analyzer E5062A. The antenna design is worked out at frequency 2GHz frequency. When
tested practically it was properly matching with designed frequency.
In this report, a novel electromagnetic band gap structure (EBGs) is proposed. A
fractal microstrip antenna is implemented using the EBGs as a ground plane, and the
measured results show that the reduction in the surface wave level is remarkable.
Compared with the reference antenna at improvement of the return loss is achieved, and
the back lobe is reduced. Thus considerable size reduction& a total bandwidth are
achieved. In addition to this, use of array in our design resulted in improved radiation
with enhance bandwidth and good return loss. Simulation is carried out using IE3D
software and it is found that simulated results are in good agreement with the
experimental results.
The dielectric constant plays a major role in the overall performance of a patch
antenna. It affects both the width, in turn the characteristic impedance and the length
resulting in an altered resonant frequency. We have used the fiber glass substrate (glass
epoxy) but the permittivity (εr) alters from batch to batch sometimes even between
different sheets of substrates.
As we have implemented antenna arrays using fractal geometry to improve the
performance of single element antenna, traditional wideband antennas (spiral and log –
periodic) can be analyzed with fractal geometry to shed new light on their operating
principles. In addition to this, EBG structure of different shapes (like plus shape, spiral
shape etc.) can analyzed with antenna elements with good multiband and improved
characteristics.
FUTURE SCOPE
In our project, aim of improving the performance (Ex: gain, directivity, return loss) of the
antenna is achieved.
There are several methods to implement the antenna design with the use of
different fractal geometries like Koch curves, Hilbert structures etc., different number of
antenna elements in the design and also different types of EBG structures (Ex: plus
shaped EBG, hexagonal EBGs, circular shapes etc.).Therefore we can further improve
our design by using different implementations in our design and by using metallic vias in
our design in the future.
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