Dual Slot Microstrip Patch Antenna

Kevin V. S. George
Department of Electrical Engineering,
University of Texas A&M-Kingsville, TX 78363 USA
Kevin92138@gmail.com
Abstract A new technique has originated in
which antennas can be designed by cutting slots in
a rectangular patch which results in a broadband
antenna. Wireless communications has been
increasing at an alarming rate and thus there has
been an increased demand in manufacturing single
patch and single layer antennas. This technique
helps in doing that since the advantage being the
technique is simple and its planar, thus resulting in
a low cost of manufacturing. The technique this
paper talks about is creating a U-slot patch antenna
and also shows the simulation results which
proves that the design of antenna is feasible.
Index Terms -Dual-band antennas and patch
antennas

within the original broadband. The broadband

antenna is turned into a dual-band antenna. When
a second U-slot is cut in the patch, two band
notches can be introduced and a triple-band
antenna results. There have been many feed
techniques with the original broadband antennas
which are L-probe fed patch, M-probe fed patch,
coaxial-fed patch, proximity fed patch. However
besides coaxial fed patch, the other feed
techniques are pretty complicated and not too easy
to implement. Therefore in this paper, we apply
the method to the case when the original
broadband antenna is a coax-fed U-slot patch. This
design has the advantages of simplicity of the feed
as well as having only one layer and only one
patch.

I. INTRODUCTION

II. SIMULATION

A GSM mobile handset can function on four

frequencies which is 800MHz, 900MHz ,1800Mhz
and 1900 MHz to just name a few. Therefore there
has been an increase demand to design antennas
that can handle and switch over a series of
frequency so that call dropping is greatly reduced.
Therefore a slot antenna comes close to achieving
such a antenna. For a dual-band patch antenna
with small frequency ratios, an effective design is
stacked patches and was reported by Long and
Walton [1]. The radiation at the two bands is the
same linear polarization and the patterns are
similar. After which there have been papers where
stacking more than two patches have been
demonstrated [2]
Recently, a new approach to designing dual and
triple band patch antenna with small frequency
ratios was introduced [3]. This works best with
broadband antenna. When a suitably located Uslot of the appropriate dimensions is cut in the
patch, it introduces a band notch at a frequency

The simulation results have been calculated by

using the auto cad software known as sonnet. The
important step was the design and implementation
of a dual band patch. The placement of the notches
doesnt affect the frequency and are chosen to get
the best possible impedance match.
After careful deliberation we arrive at the figure
1(d). The purpose of the second slot is not for
broadband purposes but to introduce a band notch.
The results have been simulated from 3 to 6 GHz
and the center frequency is 3.8 GHz
A. Design size and dimensions:The ground plane size is 1000mm x 1000mm and
the dual band antenna dimensions are W=36mm,
L=26mm,H=6mm,d=13mm,Ua1=2mm,Ud1=7mm,
Ux1=10mm, Uy1=18mm, Ua2=1mm, Ud2=2mm,
Ux2=22mm and Uy2=7mm.

III. SIMULATION RESULTS

A. SONNET RESULTS:-

Fig. 1(d) : Geometry of a dual slot patch antenna

Fig 1(a): Simulated results for return loss.

Fig 1(e) :Dimensions of the antenna [5]

VI. CONCLUSION

Fig 1(b): Simulated result for radiation pattern

of dual slot antenna at 3.8 Ghz

We can come to the conclusion that a dual slot

antenna using a simple coaxial feed has got good
promise. From the diagram we can see it is easy to
fabricate and the feed technique is not complex
like other complex feed techniques such as an Lprobe or a M-probe.
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Fig 1(c ): Simulated result for radiation pattern

of dual slot antenna at 6 Ghz