Author(s)

Sudip Kumar Ghosh, Abhijyoti Ghosh, Dia Ghosh, Sudipta Chattopadhyay, Sandip Banerjee

Department of ECE, Siliguri Institute of Technology, Siliguri, Darjeeling, India..

A single layer single element rectangular microstrip antenna on ridge ground plane for improved bandwidth is theoretically investigated with a view to develop a concrete physical insight in to the phenomenon. The simple single element probe fed rectangular microstrip antenna fabricated on conventional PTFE (Poly Tetra Fluride Ethelene) substrate have many advantages except its narrow bandwidth. The present study proposes the technique to control the resonant modes of a microstrip antenna for yielding better bandwidth using transverse resonance method. The present antenna is designed to fabricate on ridge ground plane which has been compared with conventional structure and around 6% - 7% improvement in bandwidth is revealed. The detailed variation of radiation pattern across its frequency band has been studied and presented in this paper. The proposed idea has been verified through a commercial software package (High Frequency Structure Simulator) for a patch operating in X band and explained quantitatively. The electric surface current distribution over the patch surface for both the conventional and proposed antenna is presented to explain the broad banding effect physically.

Broad Bandwidth; Ridge Ground Plane; Rectangular Microstrip Patch

S. Ghosh, A. Ghosh, D. Ghosh, S. Chattopadhyay and S. Banerjee, "Rectangular Microstrip Antenna on Ridge Ground Plane to Control the Resonant Modes for Improved Bandwidth using Transverse Resonance Method," Journal of Electromagnetic Analysis and Applications, Vol. 4 No. 5, 2012, pp. 206-211. doi: 10.4236/jemaa.2012.45028.