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COMPACT BROADBAND CIRCULAR MICROSTRIP FEED SLOT ANTENNA WITH ASYMMETRIC BEVEL ON GROUND PLANE FOR WIMAX AND

WLAN APPLICATIONS
Neha Goyal1, Kirti Vyas2 and A. K. Sharma3
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Arya College of Engineering and IT, Kukas, Jaipur (Raj.), India 1 neha_goyal100@rediffmail.com, 2kirtiVyas19@gmail.com, 3aks_370@yahoo.co.in ABSTRACT In this paper, design and analysis of broadband compact microstrip feed slot antennas are being presented. The ground plane of the antenna comprises of a rectangular slot with asymmetric bevels on its lower edge. Microstrip feed line of 50 is used to excite the antenna of 24 x 22 x 1.6 mm3 volume. It operates in broad frequency band from 3.623 GHz to 6.90 GHz and covers wireless local area network (WLAN Europe: 5.2/5.8 GHz) and worldwide interoperability for microwave access (Wi-MAX). Antenna has stable radiation patterns with maximum gain of 5.9 dB at 6 GHz.
1. INTRODUCTION

Growing wireless industry requires large efforts in designing of antenna to satisfy the demands of industry with improved performance. Antennas are required to support more than one communication standards in one system with compact size. This indicates that the antenna should provide stable multi-band or broadband operations to meet the demand in wireless communication systems. As a matter of fact, the design and development of a single antenna working in two or more frequency bands, such as in wireless local area network (WLAN : 2.4/5.2/5.8 GHz) and world wide inter operability for microwave access (WiMAX: 2.3/3.5/5.8GHz) is generally of much interest in the research area of the antenna. Many papers have been published on design of antennas for dual and broadband operations [1-5]. However, most of the designs mentioned in these papers are not able to provide a multi-band operation with sufficiently wide bandwidth in WLAN and WiMAX bands. The antennas proposed in [6-10] can cover required bands but these are too large in size to be integrated into portable devices, which limit their practical applications. In this paper, we present a simple and compact broad band antenna suited for WLAN and Wi-MAX operations with appropriate gain and radiation efficiency. The antenna designed is smaller in size as compared to antennas in papers mentioned above [6-10]. The proposed antenna consists of a rectangular slot with bevels on its lower edge on ground plane and has a circular radiating patch. Bevels on lower edge are able to achieve a broadband operation and better reflection coefficient. The antenna is fed by 50 microstrip line, the main advantage of using microstrip line feeding is that it is easy to fabricate.

2.

ANTENNA DESIGN Figure 1(a) and 1(b) show the proposed microstrip feed line circular slot antennas. These consist of circular radiating patch on one side of the substrate and other side has a rectangular slot in ground plane. The dielectric material used for the design is FR4 having dielectric constant r=4.4 with substrate thickness h=1.6 mm. Both in Antennas are compact in size with dimensions of 24 x 22 mm2. Circular radiating patch with radius of R=6 mm is fed by microstrip line of width FW = 3mm. The ground plane has a rectangular slot with length L=18 mm and width W=16mm. The proposed slot antennas can operate frequency band from 3.623 GHz to 6.90 GHz covering WLAN (Europe: 5.2/5.8 GHz) and WiMAX bands. In order to achieve band enhancement operation and proper impedance matching, two rectangular bevels of dimension of W1x L1 and W2x L2are etched on the both side of lower edges of rectangular slot in ground plane as shown in Figure 1(b). The dimensions of bevel are optimized to withstand fabrication tolerances. The electromagnetic simulation software Ansoft HFSS 11 has been employed to perform the design and optimization process. Table 1 shows the optimized parameters of the proposed antennas.

(a) (b) Figure 1: Geometry of proposed antenna (a)Antenna 1 (Without bevels) (b) Antenna 2 (with bevel) SW 22 SL 24 W 16 L 18 W1 3 L1 3 W2 2 L2 2 R 6 FW 3

Table 1: The optimal Antenna parameters (Unit: mm). 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS Two microstrip slot antennas are designed with and without bevels. Antenna 1 (without bevel) operates in 3.53 GHz to 6.3 GHz frequency band having reflection coefficient of -19.4 dB at 4.6 GHz with impedance bandwidth of 63.16% with respect to central

frequency of 5.24 GHz. Antenna 2 (with bevel) operates in 3.5 GHz to 6.9 GHz frequency band with reflection coefficient of -23.59 dB at 4 GHz and -37.71 dB at 5.7 GHz frequency having impedance bandwidth of 56.53% with respect to central frequency of 4.9 GHz. Comparison of reflection coefficient of these two antennas is shown in Figure 2. Improvement in bandwidth up to ~ 5% with higher reflection coefficient has been observed for antenna 2 (with bevel). Figure 3 shows the variation of VSWR with frequency from 3.5 GHz to 6.9 GHz of the antennas with and without bevels. We have found satisfactory VSWR, which is close to 1 for the antenna 2 (with bevel) in operational band.

Figure 2: Simulated reflection coefficient for antenna 1 (without bevel) and antenna 2 (with bevel)

Figure 3: Simulated VSWR curve for antenna 1 (without bevel) and antenna 2 (with bevel)

3.1

PARAMETRIC STUDIES ON REFLECTION COEFFICIENT

3.1.1 Variation in length and width Parametric variations of length and width of slot in ground plane on reflection coefficient characteristic has been simulated. Effect of variation of length of slot on reflection coefficient towards lower edge of slot (towards feed line) on proposed antenna performance is shown in Figure 4. Increase in operational bandwidth has been observed with increase in length, L and good impedance matching has been found at L = 18 mm. Effect of variation of width of slot on reflection coefficient along right side of slot on the proposed antenna performance is shown in Figure 5. We have observed that reflection coefficient in operational bandwidth is reducing with the increase in value of W. hence fabrication tolerance is also reduces. We propose the width of slot, w = 16 mm would be comfortable for fabrication.

Figure 4: Effect of variation of length L on reflection coefficient of proposed antenna 2 (with bevel)

Figure 5: Effect of variation of width W on reflection coefficient of proposed antenna 2 (with bevel) 3.1.2 Variation in circular patch radius Effect of various radii of circular radiating patch (antenna 2) on reflection coefficient has also been studied. Figure 6 shows the variation of reflection coefficient with increase in

radius of circular radiating patch. It is observed that by increase in radius of patch, bandwidth increases and reduces reflection coefficient in operational band width. Decrease in reflection coefficient characterizes lower fabrication tolerance.

Figure 6: Effect of variation of radius R on reflection coefficient of proposed antenna 2 3.1.3 Radiation Patterns Radiation patterns of the discussed microstrip feed circular patch antenna (with bevel) has also been drawn in polar diagrams in Figure 7. It is noticed that at lower frequencies of 3.5 and 4 GHz, the E plane pattern resembles the figure of 8 shape. At higher frequencies of 5.2 and 5.8 GHz, the E plane pattern are slightly modified from conventional 8 shaped pattern, this may be due to the higher order modes generating at higher frequencies. H plane pattern is omni-directional for the entire band of operation.

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Figure 7: Radiation patterns of the proposed antenna (with bevel) in E and H plane, (a) at 3.5 GHz (b) at 4 GHz (c) at 5.2 GHz and (d) at 5.8 GHz

3.1.4 Variation of Gain with Frequency Gain of the proposed antennas with and without bevels have also been computed and shown in Figure 8. Satisfactory gain of 3.5dB to 5.9 dB has been achieved from 4 GHz to 6.3 GHz frequencies band. Nearly 8 to 10 % higher gain has been found in an antenna with bevel then without bevel.

Figure 8: Simulated Gain vs. Frequency curve for antenna 1(without bevel) and antenna 2(with bevel)

5.

CONCLUSION

An optimal microstrip slot antenna with asymmetric bevels on its lower edge on ground plane and circular radiating patch has been proposed. Simulated results show that proposed antenna operates at 3.5 GHz to 6.9 GHz frequency band having reflection coefficient of -23.59 dB at 4 GHz and -37.71 dB at 5.7 GHz frequency having impedance bandwidth of 56.53% with respect to central frequency of 4.9 GHz. The stable radiation pattern with satisfactory maximum gain of 5.9 dB at 6 GHz has been obtained. The proposed compact antenna with volumetric size of 0.85 cm3 makes it a good candidate to operate in WLAN and WiMAX bands.

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