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Abstract: in This Effort, A Rectangular Microstrip Patch Antenna

A rectangular microstrip patch antenna was designed, fabricated, and tested to operate at 2.4 GHz using a 1.6mm thick FR-4 substrate with a dielectric constant of 4.4. Simulations and measurements of the antenna's gain, return loss, VSWR, input impedance, and bandwidth were performed using HFSS software and the results were satisfactory. The antenna was designed for applications such as WiFi and other wireless communication systems operating in the 2.4-2.69 GHz band.

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Abstract: in This Effort, A Rectangular Microstrip Patch Antenna

A rectangular microstrip patch antenna was designed, fabricated, and tested to operate at 2.4 GHz using a 1.6mm thick FR-4 substrate with a dielectric constant of 4.4. Simulations and measurements of the antenna's gain, return loss, VSWR, input impedance, and bandwidth were performed using HFSS software and the results were satisfactory. The antenna was designed for applications such as WiFi and other wireless communication systems operating in the 2.4-2.69 GHz band.

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Abstract: In this effort, a rectangular microstrip patch antenna

operates at 2.4 GHz is proposed. It was designed, fabricated and


tested based on a thickness of 1.6mm flame retardant 4 (FR-4)
substrate, with a dielectric constant of approximately 4.4. Its
performance in terms of some parameters such as gain, return
loss, VSWR, input impedance and bandwidth were simulated
and measured. An Soft HFSS Vs.13 was used as a software tool.
The overall results were all satisfactory.
INTORDUCTION Recently, the rapid growth of microwave-
band-wireless-communication systems is clearly observed.
Microstrip antennas have been playing a very important role for
those systems requirements [1]. For instance, the interesting
widely known service "Worldwide Interoperability for
Microwave access, WiMax" were allocated three frequency
bands. The lower band (2.5 -2.69 GHz), the middle band (3.2-
3.8 GHz) and the upper band (5.2-5.8 GHz) [4]. Several small
and compact handheld devices were developed to support such
services relying on embedded microstrip patch antennas. They
have attractive features of low profile, small size and
conformability to mounting hosts. They are very promising
candidates for satisfying the above-mentioned applications.
The microstrip patch is designed such that its pattern maximum
is normal to the patch (broadside radiator). This is accomplished
through proper choice of the mode (field configuration) of
excitation beneath the patch. End-fire radiation can also be
accomplished by judicious mode selection. The ones that are
most desirable for antenna performance are thick substrates
whose dielectric constant is in the lower end of the range. This
is because they provide better efficiency, larger bandwidth,
loosely bound fields for radiation into space, but at the expense
of larger element size [6].
Thin substrates with higher dielectric constants are attractive for
microwave circuitry because they require tightly bound fields to
minimize undesirable radiation and coupling, which lead to
smaller element sizes; however, because of their greater losses,
they are less efficient and have relatively smaller bandwidths
[6]. Since microstrip antennas are often integrated with other
microwave circuitry, a compromise has to be reached between
good.
Often microstrip antennas are referred to as patch antennas. The
radiating elements and the feed lines are habitually photo etched
on the dielectric substrate. The radiating patch may be square,
rectangular, thin strip, circular, elliptical, triangular or
constituting any other configuration. Square, rectangular, thin
strip and circular microstrip patch configurations are the most
common because of their ease of analysis, fabrication, and their
attractive radiation characteristics, especially the low cross-
polarization radiation. There are many configurations that can
be used to feed microstrip antennas. The four most popular
feeding techniques are the microstrip line, coaxial probe,
aperture coupling and proximity coupling [6] [7-13]. In our
paper, we have chosen inset feed microstrip line with
rectangular microstrip patch.

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