Design and Fabrication of UWB

Monopole Antenna

Presented by
Debashree Dutta
(BS17MSCPHO34)
Under the guidance of
Dr. Kumaresh Sharma
Sivranjan Goswami
 Contents
• Introduction
• Basic theoretical information
• Ultra wideband antennas
• Experimental details
• Experimental results
• Conclusions
• Future scopes
• References
 Introduction
•An antenna is the interface between
free space and metallic conductor for
propagating waves.
•It is used with a transmitter or receiver.
• IN this project I have designed two
compact monopole ultra wideband
antennas using microstrip technology.
 Basic theoretical information
• There are some antenna parameters that
determines how the antenna works.
• These are radiation pattern, Band width, gain,
efficiency, polarization etc.
• The radiation pattern is the graphical
representation of the radiation properties of
the antenna as function of space co-ordiates.
 Basic theoretical information
• Microstrip antennas, in its basic form consist of a
radiating patch on one side of a dielectric substrate
which has a ground plane on the other side as
shown in figure.
 Theoretical information
• The metallic patch can have different shapes such
as rectangular, circular, elliptical, triangular etc.
• There are different feeding techniques for exciting
the radiating patch such as microstrip line feed,
coaxial feed, Aperture coupled feed, proximity
coupled feed.
• Coplanar waveguide (CPW) feeding technique is a
special type of technique that is used in UWB
antennas.
• CPW is consist of a
single conducting track
printed on a dielectric
substrate, together with
a pair of
conductors(ground
planes) on the both side
of the track.
• Further for better impedance matching of the
antenna we can cut out some small
dimensions from patch and ground planes.
 Ultra wideband antennas
• UWB is a radio technology for transmitting
information over a band width 3GHz-10.7GHz.
• Some printed monopole UWB antennas with
CPW feed are shown in the figure3.
• This antenna is commonly consists of monopole
patch and ground planes. Both are printed on
same or opposite side of the substrate.
• A coplanar waveguide is used to excite the patch.
Figure3: various monopole structures
 Experimental details
• I have designed two UWB antennas which are
refer to as ANTENNA1 and ANTENNA2 here.
• CPW feeding techniques are used in both
cases.
• The radiating patch, ground planes and feed
line are printed above a FR4 epoxy(4.4)
dielectric.
Antenna1
• The figure shows the
geometry of the
ANTENNA1.
• It is consist of a circular
patch of radius 10mm
above a dielectric of
length and width 30mm
and thickness 1.6mm.
• A cut on the upper side of
the patch is given
• Some stairs are given to
the ground planes.
 Values of parameters of ANTENNA1
Patch radius( Patch cut Feed line Ground Stair
R) planes(L, W) lengths(L1,
L2,L3)
10mm 3.5mm 2.6mm 13.3mm, 1.5mm
8.6mm
Stair Stair Ground slot(L4) Ground slot
widths(W2) widths(w3,w4) W5
1.675mm 2.50875mm 7.2mm 1.5mm
ANTENNA2
• Figure shows geometry of
the antenna.
• It is consist of a
pentagonal shape patch
of equal sides of 9.52mm
above the dielectric of
size L=22mm and
W=32mm.
• Two stubs are used at the
bottom of the patch.
• Two ground plane tapers
are used.
 Values of parameters of ANTENNA2
Feed line length Ground plane Ground plane Tapers length
length width
2.8mm 14.2mm 4.35mm 1.85mm
Stub1(s1) Stub1(w1) Stub2(s2) Stub2(w2)
.64 6 .5 4.5
• Various values of the parameters of the
antenna are taken and simulated several times
in HFSS 13.0
• Both the antennas are operated at 6.85GHz.
• Further the fabricated antennas were
experimentally tested in a device vector
network analyser.
Results of ANTENNA1
• Figure shows the
simulated result of the
antenna.
• The antenna is covering
a wide band of 4.9-
9.5GHz with a reject
band 6.15-8.21GHz.
• Minimum return loss is
obtained at 5.3 GHz.
• The BW is 4.6GHz.
Experimental return loss graph of
ANTENNA1
 Results of ANTENNA2

• Figure shows the simulated return loss graph of

ANTENNA2.
• The antenna covers a band of 6.3-8.35GHz.
• BW is 2.05GHZ.
Experimental return loss graph of
ANTENNA2
Radiation patterns of the antennas
The fabricated antennas
 Conclusion
• Compact microstrip monopole antennas has
been designed and then fabricated for UWB
applications.
• Experimental and simulated results are almost
similar.
• These antennas can be used for UWB
applications.
 Future scopes
• In future the antennas can be developed to
have more gain and efficiency for UWB
applications.
• Studies can be carried out to improve time
domain behavior of the antenna.
 References
[1] Noor Mohammed Awad and Mohammed K. Abdalazeez’s “Circular
Patch UWB Antenna With Ground-Slot”, Electrical Engineering
Department, University of Jordan; Amman.
[2] Ali s. Abbas and Mohammed K. Abdalazeez’s “Compact Planar UWB
Antanna with Dual Band-Notched Characteristics”, Communication
Engineering Department.
[3] Design of Planar UWB Monopole Antenna, Study and Development of
Compact UWB Antenna for wireless Communication System.
[4] R. Chair, A. A. Kishak, K. F. Lee, C. E. Smith and D. Kajfez’s “ Microstrip
Line and CPW Fed UWB Slot Antennas With U-shaped Tuning Stub and
Reflector”, Department of Electrical Engineering, Center of Applied
Electromagnetic Systems Research, University of Mississippi.
[5] S.K.A. Ahmed, M. Ameena Banu, K. Mthu Lakshmi’s “Design and
Fabrication of Triangular Shape Microstrip Patch Antenna Using
LanthanidesUniversity of Jordan, Amman