DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF S-BAND CIRCULARLY POLARIZED MICRO-STRIP PATCH ANTENNA

INTERNAL GUIDE MRS DEEPTHI MURTHY T.S

MOHAMMED PARVEZ ALAM (1VE07EC061) P.M VASANTH (1VE07EC071) PRASHANT SINGH YADAV (1VE07EC074) PRITHVIDIP GUPTA (1VE07EC080)

EXTERNAL GUIDE MR.VEER SINGH GANGWAR

SPECIFICATIONS
 FREQUENCY RANGE

3-3.5GHZ

OBJECTIVE
 GAIN  RETURN LOSS

>5DB < -10DB

SOFTWARE
 HFSS (HIGH FREQUENCY STRUCTURE SIMULATOR)  ADS (ADVANVED DESIGNING SYSTEM)

CONDITION FOR CIRCULAR POLARIZATION

CIRCULAR POLARIZATION CAN BE OBTAINED IF TWO ORTHOGONAL MODES ARE EXCITED WITH A 90 DEGREE TIME PHASE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM

Feed line Patch

Splitter

CIRCULAR POLARIZED WAVE

PROCESS
y TO CALCULATE RADIUS OF CIRCULAR PATCH

We need to design Power divider first to determine the radius of circular patch & we are using Er=2.2 g=c/f =92.30mm g/ 4=23.0750mm We are calculating g/ 4 because one side of power divider should differ by g/ 4 of the other side, in order to get 90 degree phase shift.

3DB POWER DIVIDER IN ADS

Length & Width of substrate is calculated using Line calculator of ADS

33.3542

THIS LENGTH IS NOTHING BUT THE HYPOTENUSE OF A TRIANGLE, WHOSE BASE & HEIGHT IS RADIUS OF THE PATCH

Height

Hyp

Base

Where Hyp^2=Base^2 +Height^2

SUBSTRATE
LENGTH AND WIDTH OF SUBSTRATE SHOULD BE GREATER THAN THE RECTANGLE IN WHICH THE CIRCULAR PATCH IS ENCLOSED

Let us take Lsub=138.45mm Wsub=120mm Height of substrate=0.79mm

NOW WE DEVELOP MICROSTRIP PATCH ANTENNA IN HFSS

SUBSTRATE

SUBSTRATE

PATCH

Patch of radius 2.3718cm

Then we need to call 3dB power divider from ADS to HFSS , so that we can implement our divider to patch in HFSS

3dB POWER DIVIDER

WAVE PORT DESIGN:

Width of wave port = 5 (width of feed line) Height of wave port = (width of feed line) + 6 (height of substrate) Where width of feed line is calculated using Line Calculator in ADS, width of feed line = 2.408 mm

AFTER THAT WE NEED TO ASSIGN BOUNDARY CONDITION, WHICH IS EQUAL TO THE G/ 4=23.0750MM THROUGH ALL THE SIDE OF SUBSTRATE

THEN WE SIMULATE THE ANTENNA TO CHECK THE RESULT

SIMULATED RESULT

Simulated polar plot

View at phi=0 degree

View at phi=90 degree

FOR CIRCULAR RATIO THE AXIAL RATIO SHOULD BE IN RANGE OF 0 TO 3 DB

ADVANTAGES
Light weight and low volume. Low profile planer configuration which can be easily made conformal to host surface. Low fabrication cost, hence can be manufactured in large quantities. Can be easily integrated with microwave integrated circuits (MICs). Mechanically robust when mounted on rigid surfaces. Light weight, low volume and low profile planar configurations that can be made conformal.

DISADVANTAGES
Narrow bandwidth Low efficiency Low Gain Extraneous radiation from feeds and junctions Low power handling capacity.

APPLICATIONS
This designed patch is been utilized for the following purpose at LRDE Bangalore. Costal surveillance antenna Satellite communications Missile telemetry Satellite navigation receiver Biomedical radiator

CONCLUSION
Circular Polarized S-Band Microstrip Patch Antenna is successfully designed in this project, The proposed microstrip patch antenna achieves a fractional bandwidth of 0.5GHz (3.0 to 3.5GHz) at -10 dB return loss, with -25dB return loss at centre frequency is been achieved. The achievable gain of the antenna is 5.9dB (greater than 5db).The proposed patch has a compact dimension (radius) of 2.3718cm. This designed patch is been utilized for costal surveillance antenna for purpose of DEFENCE at LRDE Bangalore.

FUTURE WORK
We can increase the Bandwidth of Micro-strip Patch Antenna in two ways By making Slot in the Patch of Antenna By using Arrays of Antenna