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Design and Analysis of Microstrip Patch Array Antenna for WLAN Applications


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1 Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Mount Zion College of Engineering and Technology, India
     

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In this paper, a rectangular slotted microstrip patch array antenna is proposed and designed for wireless local area network applications. A single patch, 1×2, 1×4 and 1×8 patch array antenna is designed and the impacts of functional characteristics such as return loss, VSWR, radiation pattern are investigated. The 1×4 array antenna provides the better results than other arrays. The dimension of the array antenna is 143 mm and 71 mm. The patch splits and slots are taken in this design in order to enhance the bandwidth. The proposed structure designed by FR4 substrate with the thickness of 0.8 mm. The proposed 1×4 array antenna resonates at 2.4 GHz with the return loss and VSWR of is -33.6878dB and 1.0233, respectively.

Keywords

Microstrip Patch Array, WLAN, SLOT, FR4, 1×4 Array and Return Loss
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B. Ramya
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Mount Zion College of Engineering and Technology, India
C. Supratha
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Mount Zion College of Engineering and Technology, India
S. Robinson
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Mount Zion College of Engineering and Technology, India

Abstract


In this paper, a rectangular slotted microstrip patch array antenna is proposed and designed for wireless local area network applications. A single patch, 1×2, 1×4 and 1×8 patch array antenna is designed and the impacts of functional characteristics such as return loss, VSWR, radiation pattern are investigated. The 1×4 array antenna provides the better results than other arrays. The dimension of the array antenna is 143 mm and 71 mm. The patch splits and slots are taken in this design in order to enhance the bandwidth. The proposed structure designed by FR4 substrate with the thickness of 0.8 mm. The proposed 1×4 array antenna resonates at 2.4 GHz with the return loss and VSWR of is -33.6878dB and 1.0233, respectively.

Keywords


Microstrip Patch Array, WLAN, SLOT, FR4, 1×4 Array and Return Loss

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