Assistant professor, Dept. of Electronics and communications, DMSSVH college of Engineering, Machilipatnam, India, vk_fire@yahoo.com
Online published on 7 April, 2017.
This paper presents the bandwidth enhancements in a microstrip line feed patch antenna by the use of selective stepped cuttings at four corners. This paper addresses the performance comparisons of three different patch antennas. The first is a conventional rectangular patch over Rogers RT Duroid 5880 substrate operating at 7.5GHz, In the second stage the patch antenna possesses a step at the corners and as a result the designed antenna operates at 7.8GHz with minimum return loss and increase the band width of 63.61%. The third structure that is being proposed maintain more steps at the corners and operates at 7.5GHz with minimum return loss and bandwidth increase of 74.98% is achieved.
Bandwidth, Return loss, Microstrip patch antenna, Microstrip line feed