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IJRET: International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology eISSN: 2319-1163 | pISSN: 2321-7308
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DESIGN AND SIMULATION OF A TUNABLE FREQUENCY
MICROSTRIP PATCH ANTENNA
Akansha Tandon1
, B.R.Dutta2
, Yogesh K. Bhomia3
1
Student, 2
HOD EC Dept, SRMS College of Engg, and Tech., Bareilley, India
3
Principal, Universal Technical College, Jaipur, India
Abstract
This paper presents an evaluation of frequency reconfigurable patch antennas for X-band, using PIN diode as a switch. A pin diode is
incorporated in the slot etched on rectangular patch antenna. The frequency band selectivity can be achieved by controlling the state
of switch inserted in the antenna. We are using IE3D simulation software for designing and analysis. We have discussed and analyzed
the performance of unslotted Rectangular Microstrip patch antenna and slotted rectangular patch antenna with PIN diode in ON and
OFF states.
Keyword: Microstrip Antenna, Return Loss, Radiation pattern, IE3D.
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1. INTRODUCTION
In wireless communication applications, the demand for low
profile compact size planar antenna is increasing day by day.
The light weight, small size handheld wireless devices design
challenges never stops. Various types of low-profile elements
have recently been developed and they fairly efficient
radiators that can be easily manufactured at low cost. The
conventional microstrip patch is not a good candidate for
wireless applications, due to certain disadvantages as narrow
bandwidth. Therefore, more unusual approaches are
investigated for multiband antenna with reduced size
operation. The main goal is to design antennas for wireless
communication applications where the space value of the
antenna is quite limited while it reserves the characteristics of
multiband, light weight, low cost and robustness.
Reconfigurable antennas are similar to the conventional
antenna but one or more of its specification or characteristics
could be adjusted or tuned using RF switches/MEMs or
variable capacitors/inductors. They have four types: 1-
Frequency reconfiguration, 2-Polarization diversity, 3-
Radiation pattern steering, 4- Combination of the three
previous types.
2. FREQUENCY-RECONFIGURABLE
ANTENNAS
The advantage of a frequency reconfigurable antenna is that it
allows a single radio device to operate at multiple frequencies.
For example, a tuning method can be used into multiple bands
for mobile applications. The radiation patterns of such
antennas remain unchanged as the frequencies are tuned from
one band to another. In designing a frequency reconfigurable
antenna, a single antenna will be able to tune from lower
frequency to higher frequency bands by reusing the real estate
in the antennas or tune in and out of different antenna sections.
Most resonant type antennas tune the effective electrical
length to achieve frequency reconfigurability.
Switching and / or tuning takes place with the aid of PIN
diode or MEMs switches or varactors adopted with antenna
structure. PIN diodes are reliable and experience high
switching speed but introduce nonlinearity and need complex
bias circuitry to be integrated with the antenna. On the other
hand MEMs have lower insertion loss, easier in integration
(no need for biasing circuit), less static power consumption
and have higher linearity, but it needs high static bias voltage.
According to the various advantages of reconfigurable
antennas they are currently part of modern wireless
communication systems such as (DCS/GSM/WCDMA/
Bluetooth/WLAN), handheld GPS and other navigation
systems and MIMO systems.
3. ANTENNA STRUCTURE AND DESIGN
The objective is to design, simulate and analyze a tunable
MSA with rectangular patch and operating frequencies in the
range (9 to 13) GHz. This would be accomplished by using
substrate layer of GML1000 substrate with dielectric constant
ε = 3.2 and almost 0.762mm thick.
First, we will start with conventional rectangular Microstrip
patch antenna and calculate the length and width of the patch,
width of the feed line to feed patch and length and width of the
half-quarter wave transformer used as a matching network
using standard rectangular Microstrip antenna design
equations for resonance at 10 GHz. In order to get
reconfigurability in frequency, a pin diode is added to the slot
etched on the rectangular patch. By controlling the PIN diode
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bias voltage, the antenna can be switch between two different
frequencies.
Fig. 1 Rectangular Microstrip patch antenna
4. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS
Fig. 2 Return loss v/s Frequency plot of rectangular MPA
(RMPA)
Fig. 3 Gain v/s Frequency plot of RMPA
Fig. 4 Efficiency v/s Frequency plot of RMPA
Fig. 5 RMPA with slot
Fig. 6 Return loss v/s Frequency plot when PIN diode is OFF
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Fig.7. Return Loss When PIN diode is ON
Fig.8. Gain v/s Frequency plot when PIN diode is OFF
Fig. 9 Gain v/s Frequency plot when diode is ON
Fig.10 Efficiency v/s Freqency plot when PIN diode is OFF
Fig 11 Efficiency v/s Frequency plot when diode is On
5. COMPARISON
Table 3.3 shows the comparison between the rectangular patch
antenna, slotted patch antenna when PIN diode is switched
OFF and ON
Parameters
Simple
MPA
Slotted
MPA when
diode is
OFF
Slotted
MPA when
diode is ON
Resonant
Frequency
9.67GHz 11.49GHz 12.47GHz
Impedance
Bandwidth
22.8% 32% 25%
VSWR 1.104 1.014 1.03
Gain 6.6dBi 6.28dBi 6dBi
Efficiency 78% 73% 68.6%
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CONCLUSIONS
For rectangular patch antenna the first design had a 228MHz
bandwidth (2.36% of center frequency) whereas when a PIN
diode is incorporated in the slot and is switched OFF the
bandwidth is increased to 320MHz, which gives a percent of
bandwidth to centre frequency of 2.79% that means the
bandwidth improvement approximately 92MHz. Whereas
when the PIN Diode is switched ON the bandwidth is
decreased to 250MHz which gives percent of bandwidth to
center frequency of 2.01% approximately.
REFERENCES
[1]. James, J.R. and Hall, P.S.: ‘Handbook of Microstrip
Antennas’ (Peter Peregrinus)
[2]. Constantine A. Balanis : ‘Antenna Theory, Analysis and
Design’ (John Wiley & Sons)
[3]. Lu JH, Tang CL, Wong KL, ‘Novel dual-frequency and
broadband designs of the slot-loaded equilateral Triangular
Microstrip Antenna’ IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag.
2000;48;1048-54.
[4]. Row JS. ‘Dual-frequency triangular planar inverted-f
Antenna’ IEEE Tran Antennas Propag 2005;53;874-6.
[5]. Kai-Fong Lee, Kwai- Man Luk, Jashwant S. Dahele,
‘Characteristics of the Equilateral Triangular Patch Antenna ’
IEEE Tran. Antennas Propag.1988;36;1510.
[6]. C. L. Mak, K. M. Luk, K. F. Lee, ‘ Wideband Triangular
Patch Antenna’ IEE. Proc. Microwave Antennas Propag.
1999.
[7]. Shan-Cheng Pan and Kin- Lu Wong, ‘ Dual Frequency
Triangular Microstrip Antenna with Shorting Pin’ IEEE Tran.
Antennas Propag.1997;45;1889
[8]. D.M. Pozar and D. H. Shaubert, ‘Microstrip Antennas :
The Analysis and Design of Microstrip Antenna and Array’
IEEE Press,Inc., 1980.
[9]. I. J. Bahl and P. Bhartia, ‘Microstrip Antennas, Artech
House, Dedham, MA, 1980.
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Design and simulation of a tunable frequency

  • 1. IJRET: International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology eISSN: 2319-1163 | pISSN: 2321-7308 __________________________________________________________________________________________ Volume: 02 Issue: 12 | Dec-2013, Available @ http://www.ijret.org 805 DESIGN AND SIMULATION OF A TUNABLE FREQUENCY MICROSTRIP PATCH ANTENNA Akansha Tandon1 , B.R.Dutta2 , Yogesh K. Bhomia3 1 Student, 2 HOD EC Dept, SRMS College of Engg, and Tech., Bareilley, India 3 Principal, Universal Technical College, Jaipur, India Abstract This paper presents an evaluation of frequency reconfigurable patch antennas for X-band, using PIN diode as a switch. A pin diode is incorporated in the slot etched on rectangular patch antenna. The frequency band selectivity can be achieved by controlling the state of switch inserted in the antenna. We are using IE3D simulation software for designing and analysis. We have discussed and analyzed the performance of unslotted Rectangular Microstrip patch antenna and slotted rectangular patch antenna with PIN diode in ON and OFF states. Keyword: Microstrip Antenna, Return Loss, Radiation pattern, IE3D. ----------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. INTRODUCTION In wireless communication applications, the demand for low profile compact size planar antenna is increasing day by day. The light weight, small size handheld wireless devices design challenges never stops. Various types of low-profile elements have recently been developed and they fairly efficient radiators that can be easily manufactured at low cost. The conventional microstrip patch is not a good candidate for wireless applications, due to certain disadvantages as narrow bandwidth. Therefore, more unusual approaches are investigated for multiband antenna with reduced size operation. The main goal is to design antennas for wireless communication applications where the space value of the antenna is quite limited while it reserves the characteristics of multiband, light weight, low cost and robustness. Reconfigurable antennas are similar to the conventional antenna but one or more of its specification or characteristics could be adjusted or tuned using RF switches/MEMs or variable capacitors/inductors. They have four types: 1- Frequency reconfiguration, 2-Polarization diversity, 3- Radiation pattern steering, 4- Combination of the three previous types. 2. FREQUENCY-RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNAS The advantage of a frequency reconfigurable antenna is that it allows a single radio device to operate at multiple frequencies. For example, a tuning method can be used into multiple bands for mobile applications. The radiation patterns of such antennas remain unchanged as the frequencies are tuned from one band to another. In designing a frequency reconfigurable antenna, a single antenna will be able to tune from lower frequency to higher frequency bands by reusing the real estate in the antennas or tune in and out of different antenna sections. Most resonant type antennas tune the effective electrical length to achieve frequency reconfigurability. Switching and / or tuning takes place with the aid of PIN diode or MEMs switches or varactors adopted with antenna structure. PIN diodes are reliable and experience high switching speed but introduce nonlinearity and need complex bias circuitry to be integrated with the antenna. On the other hand MEMs have lower insertion loss, easier in integration (no need for biasing circuit), less static power consumption and have higher linearity, but it needs high static bias voltage. According to the various advantages of reconfigurable antennas they are currently part of modern wireless communication systems such as (DCS/GSM/WCDMA/ Bluetooth/WLAN), handheld GPS and other navigation systems and MIMO systems. 3. ANTENNA STRUCTURE AND DESIGN The objective is to design, simulate and analyze a tunable MSA with rectangular patch and operating frequencies in the range (9 to 13) GHz. This would be accomplished by using substrate layer of GML1000 substrate with dielectric constant ε = 3.2 and almost 0.762mm thick. First, we will start with conventional rectangular Microstrip patch antenna and calculate the length and width of the patch, width of the feed line to feed patch and length and width of the half-quarter wave transformer used as a matching network using standard rectangular Microstrip antenna design equations for resonance at 10 GHz. In order to get reconfigurability in frequency, a pin diode is added to the slot etched on the rectangular patch. By controlling the PIN diode
  • 2. IJRET: International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology eISSN: 2319-1163 | pISSN: 2321-7308 __________________________________________________________________________________________ Volume: 02 Issue: 12 | Dec-2013, Available @ http://www.ijret.org 806 bias voltage, the antenna can be switch between two different frequencies. Fig. 1 Rectangular Microstrip patch antenna 4. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS Fig. 2 Return loss v/s Frequency plot of rectangular MPA (RMPA) Fig. 3 Gain v/s Frequency plot of RMPA Fig. 4 Efficiency v/s Frequency plot of RMPA Fig. 5 RMPA with slot Fig. 6 Return loss v/s Frequency plot when PIN diode is OFF
  • 3. IJRET: International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology eISSN: 2319-1163 | pISSN: 2321-7308 __________________________________________________________________________________________ Volume: 02 Issue: 12 | Dec-2013, Available @ http://www.ijret.org 807 Fig.7. Return Loss When PIN diode is ON Fig.8. Gain v/s Frequency plot when PIN diode is OFF Fig. 9 Gain v/s Frequency plot when diode is ON Fig.10 Efficiency v/s Freqency plot when PIN diode is OFF Fig 11 Efficiency v/s Frequency plot when diode is On 5. COMPARISON Table 3.3 shows the comparison between the rectangular patch antenna, slotted patch antenna when PIN diode is switched OFF and ON Parameters Simple MPA Slotted MPA when diode is OFF Slotted MPA when diode is ON Resonant Frequency 9.67GHz 11.49GHz 12.47GHz Impedance Bandwidth 22.8% 32% 25% VSWR 1.104 1.014 1.03 Gain 6.6dBi 6.28dBi 6dBi Efficiency 78% 73% 68.6%
  • 4. IJRET: International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology eISSN: 2319-1163 | pISSN: 2321-7308 __________________________________________________________________________________________ Volume: 02 Issue: 12 | Dec-2013, Available @ http://www.ijret.org 808 CONCLUSIONS For rectangular patch antenna the first design had a 228MHz bandwidth (2.36% of center frequency) whereas when a PIN diode is incorporated in the slot and is switched OFF the bandwidth is increased to 320MHz, which gives a percent of bandwidth to centre frequency of 2.79% that means the bandwidth improvement approximately 92MHz. Whereas when the PIN Diode is switched ON the bandwidth is decreased to 250MHz which gives percent of bandwidth to center frequency of 2.01% approximately. REFERENCES [1]. James, J.R. and Hall, P.S.: ‘Handbook of Microstrip Antennas’ (Peter Peregrinus) [2]. Constantine A. Balanis : ‘Antenna Theory, Analysis and Design’ (John Wiley & Sons) [3]. Lu JH, Tang CL, Wong KL, ‘Novel dual-frequency and broadband designs of the slot-loaded equilateral Triangular Microstrip Antenna’ IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag. 2000;48;1048-54. [4]. Row JS. ‘Dual-frequency triangular planar inverted-f Antenna’ IEEE Tran Antennas Propag 2005;53;874-6. [5]. Kai-Fong Lee, Kwai- Man Luk, Jashwant S. Dahele, ‘Characteristics of the Equilateral Triangular Patch Antenna ’ IEEE Tran. Antennas Propag.1988;36;1510. [6]. C. L. Mak, K. M. Luk, K. F. Lee, ‘ Wideband Triangular Patch Antenna’ IEE. Proc. Microwave Antennas Propag. 1999. [7]. Shan-Cheng Pan and Kin- Lu Wong, ‘ Dual Frequency Triangular Microstrip Antenna with Shorting Pin’ IEEE Tran. Antennas Propag.1997;45;1889 [8]. D.M. Pozar and D. H. Shaubert, ‘Microstrip Antennas : The Analysis and Design of Microstrip Antenna and Array’ IEEE Press,Inc., 1980. [9]. I. J. Bahl and P. Bhartia, ‘Microstrip Antennas, Artech House, Dedham, MA, 1980. [10]. IE3D [1] by Zeland software Inc.