2019 6th International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN)

Dual Band Butterfly Planar Antenna for WLAN

Applications
Parul Garg, Vinay Sharma, Madhur Deo Upadhayay , Atul Vir Singh
Department of Electrical Engineering ,
Shiv Nadar University
Gautam Buddha Nagar,India
pg126@snu.edu.in ,vs816@snu.edu.in ,madhur.upadhyay@snu.edu.in, atul.singh@snu.edu.in

Abstract— In this paper a dual band butterfly shaped
planar antenna is proposed. The structure consist of two
trapezoid located symmetrically to the y axis. An inductive
stub is used for impedance matching. The measured
antenna resonates at 2.9GHz and 5.32 GHz with impedance
bandwidth of 63.6 MHz, 188.7MHz respectively. The
measured gain of the proposed antenna is 2.5dBi at 2.9
GHz and 5.5dBi at 5.32GHz.
Keywords— Butterfly antenna, planar antenna, inductive
impedance matching, stub.
I. INTRODUCTION
Wireless communication systems have evolved in recent times
to facilitate multimedia applications. These applications
require high speed networks to work efficiently [1][4].
However to satisfy the demands of high data rate, the
technologies for wireless communication need to be improved
[3].The demand of bandwidth is increasing day by day for
communications systems. The length of patch is to optimized
bandwidth. Dual band resonance leads to frequency diversity.
II. ANTENNA GEOMETRY
The antenna is designed on FR4 substrate with permittivity İr
=4.1 and substrate thickness h=1.6 mm. Size of ground and
substrate is 50 mm × 50 mm. A rectangular patch of length 23
mm and width 4.45 mm is used to join two symmetric
trapezoids. The rectangular patch has inset feed. The
characteristic impedance of the feed line is 90.19 Ohm. The
dimension of trapezoids is shown in figure 1.As seen from
figure 2 a stub is introduced on the feed line for impedance
matching and frequency tuning. The stub has a characteristic
impedance of90 Ohm. The optimized dimensions of the
proposed structure are shown in table I.
Table I. Optimized parameters
Parameters L W Lp Wp t H S V

multi media and data systems. MIMO is a viable solution for

Value(mm) 17.5 27 23 4.45 4.92 30 5 4
communication, especially for urban areas, where the
interference occurs because of other RF systems and difficult
to achieve line of sight. Antenna design is a crucial part of the
RF front end. With multiple antennas used in MIMO the
effects of antennas such as mutual coupling and size cannot be
ignored. Researchers are using microstrip antennas due of their
properties as low profile, less weight, easy to fabricate and low
cost, with a shortcoming of narrow bandwidth [2]. Various
methods have been used to improve the bandwidth of
microstrip patch antenna like quarter wavelength width
extension and taper matching [5]. With the advent of Multi
input multi output (MIMO) the [6] capacity of wireless
systems has been increased. Methods such as pattern diversity
and frequency diversity are being used. Recently omni-
directional radiation patterns have drawn great attention and Fig. 1. Layout of dual band butterfly planar antenna.
provide a challenging task for the antenna designers [3]. In
frequency diversity multi band antennas are being used to
increase backhaul link with legacy systems. Researchers have
been working on Dual Band Planar antenna, In [8] the author
have designed Gemini- shaped microstrip patch antenna which
can be used in C- Band and X- Band Applications. In [9] Dual
Band characteristics are realized by using two different
resonating loop modes slot basic mode and loop basic mode
for higher band and lower band respectively. In [10] dual
feeding line is proposed which are orthogonal to each other,
which is supported by CRLH transmission-line-based feeding
network.
In this paper a dual band butterfly-shaped patch antenna is
Fig. 2. Layout of dual band butterfly planar antenna with stub.
proposed. The antenna is designed for wireless

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III. RESULT AND ANALYSIS Fig. 5. Parametric study on stub length with stub location S = 4mm.

The simulated return loss is shown in figure 3. The antenna

resonates at 5.3GHz having bandwidth 180 MHz; some extra
harmonics are also present in the antenna. A stub was
introduced to achieve dual band resonance. A parametric study
was conducted on the length and location of stub. As seen from
figure 4, 5 and 6 the length of stub controls the resonance at
5.3GHz. By adjusting the length of stub the frequency can be
tuned. The location of stub is used for impedance matching.
At S = 4mm and v= 5mm best result was seen.

Fig. 6. Parametric study on stub length with stub location S = 5mm.

Fig. 3. Return loss of dual band butterfly planar antenna.

Fig . 7. Fabricated design of dualband butterfly antenna with stub

Fig. 4. Parametric study on stub length with stub location S = 3mm.

Fig. 8. Measured and simulated return loss of dual band butterfly antenna using a
stub.

The fabricated antenna with stub is shown in fig 7.The

measured and simulated results are shown in fig 8. As seen
from fig 8 antenna resonates at 2.9 GHz and 5.32 GHz with
bandwidth 63.6 MHz and 188.7 MHz respectively. It is also
observed that all the unwanted frequencies are also removed
with the use of stub.

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5.3GHz with impedance bandwidth of 63.6 MHz and 188.7

MHz respectively. In the presented structure, butterfly wings
shaped radiating patch is used to improve the impedance
bandwidth and also an additional resonance is excited by
inducing a stub at feed line. The designed antenna has a simple
configuration and easy fabrication process. The measured
results are close to simulation results.

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IV. CONCLUSION
In this paper, a compact planar butterfly antenna with dual
band characteristics has been proposed for various :
applications. The fabricated antenna resonates at 2.9GHz and

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