International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering (IJRTE)

ISSN: 2277-3878, Volume-8 Issue-2, July 2019

Microstrip Patch Antenna for

GPS/WiMAX/WLAN Applications
Surya Deo Choudhary, Gaurav Arora, Sandeep Singh, Vineet Shekher
 Most designs are relatively larger. [1]- [11]. In this project,
Abstract: In this paper a microstrip patch antenna is proposed the microstrip patch antenna having a good results for WLAN,
for GPS/WiMAX/WLAN applications. The proposed structures WiMAX as well as the GPS applications. The rectangular and
resonate to cover the desired band with low profile and simple the polygon slots are etched from the patch to provide required
structure of 30 x 35 mm 2. An aperture coupled feeding technique
frequency bands. The experimental results satisfying good
is introduced to get the desired result, two substrates, out of which
the ground of the first substrate is etched by taking a slot and some multiband characteristics required for WLAN, WiMAX as
simple slots are also etched on the top (patch) of the antenna. To well as for the GPS bands. The proposed project gives both
test the simulation results, a prototype antenna is produced and the simulated and the measured results. They are both quite
tested. The radiation performance such as Voltage satisfying. There come three bands in the proposed antenna.
StandingoWaveoRatioo(VSWR),oreturnolossoandoradiationopat
ternoofoantennaoareoobservedobyousingoAnsysHFSSov.15.0.0o II. ANTENNA DESIGN
15.0.oTheosimulatedoandomeasuredoradiationoperformanceois
opresentedoinothisopaperowhichoshowsothatotheoproposedoant In this design the desired antenna has two substrates: one is
ennaoresonatesoato1.57542oGHzo(1.55o-o1.64oGHz),o3.5oGHz of FR4-epoxy having with permittivity of 4.4 and Rogers
o(3.42o-o3.57oGHz),oando5.2oGHzo(5.11o-o5.48oGHz) for RT/duroid with relative permittivity of 2.9. Antenna profile is
GPS, WiMAX and WLAN applications respectively. 30 x 35 mm2. The height of the first substrate is 1.6 mm and
Index Terms: Radiation pattern, VSWR, GPS, WiMAX, WLAN, for second substrate is 0.8 mm has been taken. An aperture
coupled feeding. coupled feeding technique is introduced to get the desired
result. One slot is etched from the bottom portion of upper
I. INTRODUCTION substrate and from the patch over FR4 epoxy. The thickness
The multi-band antenna has played a very important of the FR4 epoxy is 1.6 mm and Rogers RT/duroid is of 0.8
responsibility in the wireless information exchange system. mm. This figure shows the structure of the proposed antenna,
WLAN (wireless local area network) and WiMAX the gray part are the slots taken in the patch of the antenna. We
(Worldwide interoperability for microwave access) are widely also have taken one rectangular slot in the bottom of the first
used in mobile and wireless devices. DSL connections and the substrate (middle view). This gives the improved results and
Global Positioning System (GPS) is used for mapping and at last we have considered another substrate of Rogers
navigate the real time position on the ground and in the air. RT/duroid at the bottom of the first substrate. The dimensions
The WLAN standard consists of 2.4 GHz, 5.2 GHz and 5.8 of the proposed antenna are shown in Table -1.
GHz resonating frequencies [1]-[5]. WiMAX consist of 2.5 TABLE – 1
GHz, 3.5 GHz and 5.5 GHz frequencies. GPS L1 consists of Dimensions of Proposed Antenna
1.57542 GHz [6]-[8].Size, cost, performance and ease of
Dimension Dimension
installation are constraints required in high performance Parameters
(mm)
Parameters
(mm)
aircraft, spacecraft and other applications like as mobile
communication microstrip antennas [9]. Microstrip antennas L1 35 H1 30
are small, simple and inexpensive to produce with modern L2 10.92 H2 5.5
printed circuit methods, robust when mounted on rigid L3 6.53 H3 14
surfaces and when the shape and mode of the reflector are L4 7.16 H4 15
L5 6 H5 15
selected; they are very simple in terms of polarization,
L6 3 W1 7.074
resonance frequency, pattern and impedance [3].In modern L7 30 W2 4.61
times, the ultra-wide band performance has also been reported L8 3 W3 7.577
by some different geometry, such as the rectangular / round / L9 24 W4 10.6
triangular cut on the rectangular patch, the circular patch with
a conical microphone line, which cuts together a rectangular
groove on the floor with circular ring, the radiator, hexagonal
cut in the patch, also suggested an ultra-wide band behavior.

Revised Manuscript Received on July 06, 2019.

Surya Deo Choudhary, Assistant Professor, ECE, NIET, Greater Noida
(suryadeo.bit@gmail.com)
Gaurav Arora, Research Scholar, ECE, NIET, Greater Noida
(gaurav.aro96@gmail.com)
Sandeep Singh, Research Scholar, ECE, NIET, Greater Noida
(sunny99vns@gmail.com)
Vineet Shekher, Associate Professor, EEE, NIET, Greater Noida
(vshekher2407@gmail.com)

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antenna less than -10 dB. Figure 4 shows the VSWR (Voltage
Standing Wave Ratio) of the antenna design here where value
is less than 2 at desired frequencies. Two dimensional
radiation patterns are shown in figure 5 and its electric field
and magnetic field is sown in figure 6 and in figure 7
respectively.

Figure 1: Structure of Proposed Antenna

Figure 4: Simulated and Measured VSWR of Proposed

Antenna

Figure 2: Fabricated Antenna

III. SIMULATION AND RESULT

The simulation and measurement has been carried out to get
the performance of this antenna. For simulation purpose
HFSS simulation software is used. The centre frequencies
corresponds to GPS 1.57542 GHz (1.55 - 1.64 GHz), Figure 5: 2-Dimensional radiation pattern of the antenna
WiMAX 3.5 GHz (3.42 - 3.57 GHz) and WLAN 5.2 GHz
(5.11 - 5.48 GHz).

Figure 6: Simulated E-field of proposed antenna

Figure 3: Simulated and Measured S11 of Proposed

Antenna
Both the results simulated and measured are shown from
figure 3 to figure 7. Figure 3 represents the S11 of the proposed

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AUTHORS PROFILE

Surya Deo Choudhary received his Ph.D. degree in

Figure 7: Simulated H-field of proposed antenna
Electronics & Communication Engineering from B.R.
Ambedkar Bihar University in 2014, his Master of
Technology Degree from BIT Sindri, Dhanbad under
Vinoba Bhave University in 2011 and his B. Tech. in 2008
from same University. Presently he is working as an
Assistant Professor and Deputy Head of Electronics & Communication
Engineering department of Noida Institute of Engineering & Technology,
Greater Noida, India. He has wide teaching experience as an Assistant
Professor in department of ECE, DAV Institute of Engineering &
Technology (A joint venture of Government of Jharkhand & DAVCMC). He
has more than 8 years of teaching & research experience. His research
interests include Antenna and Microwave Engineering. He has published
many National & International Journals. He is a Life member of
International Association of Engineers (IAENG) and Indian Society for
Technical Education (ISTE). He has attended various training programmes
in the area of electronics & communication engineering.

Gaurav Arora is pursing Bachelor of Technology in

IV. CONCLUSION Electronics and Communication Engineering from Noida
Institute of Engineering & Technology, Greater Noida,
A microstrip patch antenna of size 30 x 35 mm2 is
India. Presently he is in fourth year. His area of research is
considered and simulated by the simulation software ansys Antenna and Microwave Engineering.
HFSS v.15.0.0. The designed antenna gives good impedance
bandwidths of 5.64%, 4.29% and 6.99% for 1.57 GHz, 3.5 Sandeep Singh is pursing Bachelor of Technology in
GHz and 5.2 GHz respectively. The simulated and measured Electronics and Communication Engineering from Noida
Institute of Engineering & Technology, Greater Noida,
results give good agreement. The proposed structure covers India. Presently he is in fourth year. His area of research is
operating bands and suitable radiation performance for the Antenna and Microwave Engineering.
application of GPS 1.57542 GHz (1.55 - 1.64 GHz), WiMAX
3.5 GHz (3.42 - 3.57 GHz) and WLAN 5.2 GHz (5.11 - 5.48 Vineet Shekher received his Ph.D. degree in
GHz). Electrical Engineering from BIT Sindri,
Dhanbad under Vinoba Bhave University, his
V. ACKNOWLEDGMENT Master of Technology from Delhi College of
Engineering under Delhi University. Presently
The authors thank Ashish Yadav and Piyush Kumar Singh
he is working as an Associate Professor of Electrical &
for their efforts in this work.
Electronics Engineering department of Noida Institute of
Engineering & Technology, Greater Noida, India. His
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