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Half hexagonal broadband high gain microstrip patch antenna for mobile and radar applications
Author(s) -
Mondal Kalyan,
Sarkar Partha Pratim
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.29726
Subject(s) - microstrip antenna , patch antenna , ground plane , broadband , materials science , microstrip , bandwidth (computing) , microwave , monopole antenna , optics , acoustics , optoelectronics , electrical engineering , antenna (radio) , physics , telecommunications , engineering
This article presents the design of a broadband microstrip patch antenna for wireless communication. The proposed antenna consists of a radiating patch on one side of a dielectric substrate which has a ground plane on the other side. A half hexagonal microstrip patch antenna is designed using PTFE substrate with dielectric constant 2.4 and thickness h = 1.6 mm. To enhance the bandwidth, rectangular slots are incorporated on the ground plane of the half hexagon patch. The proposed antenna works within the frequency range of 2.0–11.5 GHz which exhibits 141% bandwidth with a peak gain of 6.2 dBi. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 58:1028–1032, 2016