Performance study of proximity coupled stacked configuration for wideband microstrip antenna

This project started by identifying two main disadvantages of the typical microstrip antenna that are the low gain and narrow bandwidth. These two major drawbacks have limited its application despite of other advantages as compared to the conventional antenna. With the purpose of designing a wideban...

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Main Author: Rasin, Zulhani
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2007
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http://eprints.utm.my/5790/1/ZulhaniRasinMFKE2007.pdf
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description This project started by identifying two main disadvantages of the typical microstrip antenna that are the low gain and narrow bandwidth. These two major drawbacks have limited its application despite of other advantages as compared to the conventional antenna. With the purpose of designing a wideband microstrip antenna, the two already proven bandwidth enhancement techniques; the patch stack configuration and coplanar parasitic patch was studied. Several antenna configurations were proposed and from the simulation result, the antenna bandwidth was improved from the typical 8 ~ 9 % up to 36 % by using these two techniques using a simple coaxial probe feeding without any matching network. Actual fabrication was also carried out and several measurements were conducts to verify its performance. The measurement results, even not fully conform to the simulation result, has proven the effectiveness of the above mentioned bandwidth enhancement techniques.
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spelling utm-57902018-08-26T11:58:15Z http://eprints.utm.my/5790/ Performance study of proximity coupled stacked configuration for wideband microstrip antenna Rasin, Zulhani TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering This project started by identifying two main disadvantages of the typical microstrip antenna that are the low gain and narrow bandwidth. These two major drawbacks have limited its application despite of other advantages as compared to the conventional antenna. With the purpose of designing a wideband microstrip antenna, the two already proven bandwidth enhancement techniques; the patch stack configuration and coplanar parasitic patch was studied. Several antenna configurations were proposed and from the simulation result, the antenna bandwidth was improved from the typical 8 ~ 9 % up to 36 % by using these two techniques using a simple coaxial probe feeding without any matching network. Actual fabrication was also carried out and several measurements were conducts to verify its performance. The measurement results, even not fully conform to the simulation result, has proven the effectiveness of the above mentioned bandwidth enhancement techniques. 2007-05 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/5790/1/ZulhaniRasinMFKE2007.pdf Rasin, Zulhani (2007) Performance study of proximity coupled stacked configuration for wideband microstrip antenna. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering. http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:62141
spellingShingle TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Rasin, Zulhani
Performance study of proximity coupled stacked configuration for wideband microstrip antenna
title Performance study of proximity coupled stacked configuration for wideband microstrip antenna
title_full Performance study of proximity coupled stacked configuration for wideband microstrip antenna
title_fullStr Performance study of proximity coupled stacked configuration for wideband microstrip antenna
title_full_unstemmed Performance study of proximity coupled stacked configuration for wideband microstrip antenna
title_short Performance study of proximity coupled stacked configuration for wideband microstrip antenna
title_sort performance study of proximity coupled stacked configuration for wideband microstrip antenna
topic TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
url http://eprints.utm.my/5790/
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http://eprints.utm.my/5790/1/ZulhaniRasinMFKE2007.pdf