Open AccessSTEPPED SLOT PATCH ANTENNA WITH COPPER GROUND PLANE AND SOLAR CELL GROUND PLANE FOR FUTURE MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS
Author(s) -
Suresh Babu Thandullu Naganathan,
D. Sivakumar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
progress in electromagnetics research c
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.341
H-Index - 34
ISSN - 1937-8718
DOI - 10.2528/pierc19101603
Subject(s) - ground plane , patch antenna , antenna (radio) , plane (geometry) , acoustics , electrical engineering , telecommunications , physics , engineering , geometry , mathematics
A new structure design of a multi-band suspended stepped slot microstrip patch antenna with copper ground plane for future mobile communications is proposed and presented. A parametric study for the effect on the proposed antenna is done on a par with the integration of a polycrystalline silicon solar cell. The compact low profile proposed antenna is developed using Printed Circuit Board (PCB) technology on a substrate, FR4 with physical size of 50 × 50 mm2. Simulated and measured results are presented to validate the usefulness of the proposed antenna structure for Wi-Max and future mobile communications. The measured result reveals that the presented stepped slot patch antenna with copper ground plane offers impedance bandwidth of 3.94% (covering 5.46 GHz–5.68 GHz band), 3.06% (covering 7.08 GHz–7.3 GHz band), and 9.26% (covering 8.34 GHz–9.15 GHz band). The same radiating patch with solar ground plane offers impedance bandwidth of 4.58% (covering 5.12 GHz– 5.36 GHz band) and 3.06% (covering 7.32 GHz–8.02 GHz band) for future mobile communications. Good VSWR and radiation pattern characteristics are obtained in the frequency band of interest.
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