2009 International Conference on Emerging Trends in Electronic and Photonic Devices & Systems (ELECTRO-2009)

Design of Broad Band Microstrip Shorted Patch

Antenna With Semicircular Cut on Non Radiating
Edge

Pramod Kumar, Rashid Mahmood

Department of Electronics engineering
Galgotia’s College of Engineering and Technology, Gr. Noida, U.P, India
er.pramodkumar@gmail.com, mdrashidmahmood@yahoo.com

Jugul Kishor A.K.Shrivastav

Department of Electronics engineering Antenna division
ITS Engineering College SAMEER-CEM
Gr. Noida,U. P., India Chennai,India
er.jugulkishor@gmail.com

Abstract—Here we design a compact size air suspended
microstrip line fed patch antenna with semi circular cut on
non radiating edge. This antenna has wide band width.
The fractional bandwidth is approximately 20 % of 1.82
GHz. Without semicircular cut on each non radiating edge
its aspect ratio is greater then 2 by which cross
polarization occur, but using this technique the aspect
ratio maintain up to 1.04 which avoid cross polarization &
broaden more impedance bandwidth by air suspended
antenna.
plane is h=12.8mm, and the radiating patch is short-circuited to
the ground plane by using two identical shorting plates of
width d placed at two ends of one of the patch’s radiating
edges. At the center of the patch edge with shorting plates, a
50ohm microstrip feed line is used to directly feed the radiating
patch.

Keywords -shorted Patch, cross polarisation,base station

antenna.

I. INTRODUCTION
Fig 1. Geometry of Shorted Patch antenna
A low-cost microstrip-line-fed shorted patch antenna [1]
The signal strip of the microstrip feed line has a width wf
suitable for base-station applications in DCS cellular
and is connected to the radiating patch, at the patch’s shorted
communication systems has been studied. The geometry of the
edge, by using a conducting strip of the same width wf. Note
antenna is described in Figure1. Which is modeled on HFSS-
that both the microstrip feed line and the shorted patch have an
V10. Both the shorted patch and the 50-ohm microstrip feed
air substrate and have different heights of t and h respectively,
line have an air substrate, and the material cost is thus reduced
which provides more freedom in the antenna design. By
to a minimum. By using a pair of shorting plates [2] of proper
selecting a suitable value of h, and semi circular cut on non
widths for short-circuiting the radiating patch to the antenna’s
radiating edge of 11 mm radius r, a wide impedance bandwidth
ground plane this antenna can be directly fed by the 50ohm
suitable for applications in a DCS base station can be obtained,
microstrip feed line, which greatly simplifies the antenna’s
and good impedance matching of the proposed antenna is
impedance matching design.
easily achieved by adjusting the width d of the two shorting
plates. For DCS base-station application, design parameters of
II. DESIGN AND SIMULATION this antenna were chosen to be L = 23.5 mm, W = 58 mm, h =
12.8 mm, t = 3.2 mm, d = 5.5 mm, and wf = 16 mm. Aspect
The radiating patch has a length L and a width W and ratio of conventional antenna
is supported by plastic posts (not shown in the figure) above a
ground plane. The distance of the radiating patch to the ground

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W 58 RETURN LOSS
without circular cut is = = 2.46 and after cut
L 23.5 0
W − ΔW 36
aspect ratio is ≈ = 1.04 -5

L + ΔL 3.14 × 11 -10
-15

S11(dB)
-20 SIMULATED
-25 MEASURED
-30
-35
-40
-45
1.65 1.7 1.75 1.8 1.85 1.9 1.95 2
FREQUENCY (GHz.)

Fig. 3. Simulated & Measured return loss for this microstrip-

line-fed
shorted patch antenna; L = 23.5 mm, W = 58 mm, h = 12.8
mm, t = 3.2 mm, wf = 16 mm, d = 5.5 mm, and ground-plane
size =100 ×100 mm2 .On patch half circle cut of 11mm radius
in both sides to minimize the equivalent length so aspect ratio
is less then 1.6 to avoid cross polarization

Fig. 2. Simulated Model of Antenna

III. RESULT DISCUSSION

Figure 3 shows the measured return loss against
frequency. It is clearly seen that an impedance bandwidth (1:2
voltage standing wave ratio [VSWR]) of larger than 20%
covering the bandwidth requirement of the 1820-MHz band
(1708– 1910 MHz) is obtained. Typical measured radiation
patterns at 1725, 1800, and 1900 MHz are presented in Figure
4. Good broadside radiation patterns are obtained. Again,
relatively greater cross-polarization radiation is reduced in the
H-plane patterns, which is observed in conventional patch
antennas with a thick air substrate. It is also possible that this
cross-polarization radiation can be greatly reduced in practical
base-station design with a 1× N (N =2, 4, 6, . . .) array Fig. 4. Measured E- and H-plane radiation patterns for the
configuration in which two adjacent patches are fed out of antenna studied in Figure 1. (a) f1 = 1725 MHz, (b) f2 = 1800
phase using a simple microstrip T network having a half MHz, (c) f 3= 1900 MHz
guided-wavelength difference in length between its two output
feed lines. In this case, the cross-polarization radiation owing A peak antenna gain of about 6.8 dBi is obtained, with a small
to the higher order modes of two adjacent antennas can be gain variation of less than 0.6 dBi. The results show that the
canceled and reduced cross-polarization radiation can be antenna studied has a low cost of construction and is suitable
expected. Measured antenna gain against frequency is shown in for applications in DCS base stations.
Figure 5

Fig. 5. Measured antenna gain in broadside direction for the

antenna studied in Figure 1.

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IV. CONCLUSION VI. REFERENCES

By using the recent technique we design wide band [1]
antenna for cellular base station with minimum cross
polarization. Without disturbing the current distribution along
[2]
length of patch antenna we achieve linear polarization and
maintain aspect ratio. The measured return loss S11 (dB) has
good agreement with simulated result. Electrical size is same [3]
but physical size is reduced so overall performance is same
with conventional patch antenna without half circular cut. [4]
V. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT [5]
This work is supported by Antenna Div., SAMEER-CEM,
[6]
Chennai. All measurement work had completed by using
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