Abstract
With a recent development and phenomenal activity in the area of microwave, there is need to maintain quality of service and high data rate. Therefore, requirement to design an antenna which provide these facilities. This paper presents a double regular hexagonal radiating patch, defected ground, and small circular slot etched out from the middle part of radiating patch. It demonstrated the Ultra-Wide band (UWB) operation, which works efficiently in entire band from 2.52 to 12.91 GHz. The overall dimension of proposed antenna is 31 × 51.5 mm2 Simulated in HFSS and has almost stable radiation pattern of E- and H-plane, positive gain of 6 dBi, and 134% of bandwidth in the entire band. This microstrip antenna is simulated and fabricated to verify its result, the equivalent circuit model is also constructed to verify simulate a measured result, which works efficiently in S, C, and X band applications.
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1 Introduction
Recently development in the field of wireless communication system, has led to demand of UWB antenna, which gives wide bandwidth, low transmission rate, less distortion, high gain and most importantly very less probability to intercept. Antenna researcher community face the problem and designed the miniaturized antenna to fulfill the requirement of UWB. The microstrip planar antenna is chosen because of its attractive feature of monitorization, low profile, low manufacturing cost and appropriate for production [1]. There are different shaped of UWB antenna has been demonstrated in [2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15]. A hexagonal antenna shaped with partial ground plane [2], L-shaped slot-based patch antenna for bandwidth enhancement [3], U-shaped aperture dual band UWB antenna [4], low profile band rejected radiating patch antenna [5], to prediction of notch frequency and T-shaped slot in partial ground [6, 7], a miniaturized antenna with band-notch characteristics, multi resonator, triangular-hexagonal based antenna for UWB antenna has been presented [8,9,10,11] to highlight the recently published works in the field of antenna.
This works has two regulars hexagonal shaped patch placed at 30° about its center and has a small circular slot at the middle of proposed antenna. It is designed on FR4 substrate of compact size 31 × 51.5 mm2. This proposed antenna presented here has compact size, easy to fabricate, wide bandwidth, stable radiation pattern, and positive gain. The bandwidth of antenna may be enhanced by inserting the circular slot at it center.
2 Antenna Design and Implementation
The proposed microstrip feed hexagonal printed antenna and its evolution step are show in Fig. 1. A double regular hexagonal radiating patch, defected ground, and small circular slot etched out from the middle part of radiating patch. In first step, a regular hexagonal shape (ANT1) of radius R is taken as depicted in Fig. 1a. A similar type regular hexagonal shape is placed at 30° to get ANT2 as shown in Fig. 1b. And finally, small circular slot is inserted on the center of radius ‘r’ to obtained ANT3 as portrayed in Fig. 1c. This antenna structure is designed on FR4 epoxy dielectric material constant of (ε) = 4.4, height (h) = 1.6 mm, and loss tangent (δ) = 0.02. The width of defected ground plane (wg) = 13.5 mm, radius of hexagonal patch (R) = 13 mm, and circular slot (r) = 2 mm is the optimized parameter of proposed antenna. Simulated and fabricated proposed antenna captured in Fig. 2a, b.
The resonant frequencies of regular Hexagonal Patch Antenna (HPA) are calculated by Eq. (1) [11].
where \(C\) = speed of electromagnetic wave in free space, \(\varepsilon_{{\text{reff}}}\) = effective dielectric material constant, the operative radius (\(R_e\)) of patch antenna is calculated through Eq. (2) [11].
where \(R_c ,h,\varepsilon_r\) is the radius of the circular geometry, thickness, and material dielectric constant, respectively. By equating the area of circular and hexagonal shape, the resonance frequency can be determined by Eq. (3) [11].
Effective dielectric material constant \((\varepsilon_{r{\text{eff}}} )\) is given by Eq. (4) [11]
where Sh, \(\varepsilon_r\) are the side of hexagonal patch and relative dielectric constant.
3 Finite Element Method (FEM) Analysis
In this section, FEM is used to demonstrate the how and at what extend the potential is varied. Partial differential equation (PDE), in MATLAB toolbox, helps to analyze numerically. There are 223 elements, 55 edges, and 139 nodes available in this antenna. The elliptical, parabolic, hyperbolic form of generic mode and electric, magnetic form of electromagnetic mode are calculated through Eqs. (5–9) [12] and it is graphical representation is depicted in Fig. 3.
where U = scalar potential, f = source, E = electric field, B = magnetic field density, A = magnetic vector potential, ρ = charge density, ε = coefficient of dielectric, μ = magnetic permeability, and a, c, d are scalar constant.
4 Lumped Circuit Model Analysis
The return loss characteristic of radiating microstrip patch antenna is developed by help of transmission line model. Its result can be verified by lumped equivalent circuit model. This model can be constructed using basic elements of resistor (R), inductor (L), capacitor (C), and conductance (G). The microstrip feedline, resonating patch, and partial ground can be approximated as a series combination of surface resistance (Rs), and surface inductance (Ls) and is calculated by Eq. (10–11) [13,14,15,16]
where \(\delta = \sqrt {\frac{2}{{\omega \sigma_{\text{cond }} \mu_0 }}}\) and
The conducting top and bottom layer are separated by FR-4 substrate. Electrically, this suggest a parallel combination of capacitor C and its value is calculated by Eq. (12) [13,14,15,16]. The conductance G, due to dielectric loss can be omitted for sake of simple analysis.
where
where t = conductor height, \({\upsigma }_{{\text{cond}}}\) = surface conductivity, \(\omega\) = angular frequency, \(\delta\) = skin depth, \(C =\) capacitance of capacitor, \(W_{{\text{eff}}}\) = effective width, and \(\varepsilon_{r{\text{eff}}}\) = effective material dialectic constant, \(\mu_0\) = permeability in the free space. All assumptions are considered and lumped equivalent circuit is drawn as Fig. 4.
The input impedance (Zin = R + jX) is numerically calculated from Fig. 4b.
and
where i = 1, 2, 3, 4, and n = 5, 6, 7, 8; By putting the value of i and n, Z1 to Z8 can be obtained such as i = 1 and n = 5 will give
and
Total input impedance (Zin) is calculated as,
The reflection coefficient \(\left( \Gamma \right)\) is determined by Eq. (14) with help of Eq. (13). Voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR), and return loss (RL) is given by Eqs. (15–16), respectively.
where Z0 is the characteristic impedance (50Ω).
5 Result and Discussion
Performance parameters of the simulated and fabricated antenna are discussed in this section. The proposed antenna (ANT3) in Fig. 1c represents ultra-wide band characteristic as can be seen from Fig. 5. The observations and its values are enumerated in Table 1.
Figure 6, shows the scattering parameters of proposed antenna, which is obtained by simulation, measurement, and lumped circuit model. All outcomes are very close to each other. The simulated bandwidth of this antenna is of 13.09 GHz, ranging from 2.52–12.91 GHz. it can be seen from plot that there is little variation of return loss characteristic at lower and higher resonance frequency. The higher order modes are activated to enhance the wide bandwidth.
The E and H-plane, at its resonance frequencies of 5.4 and 10.4 GHz are depicted in Fig. 7 and can be seen from it that, simulated and measured radiation patterns are almost stable and has good co-polarization than cross-polarization.
The simulated and measured peak gain of the antenna is 6 dBi at 11.57 GHz depicted Fig. 8a. Average gain and radiation efficiency are 3.5 dBi and 87% in entire operating band as captured in Fig. 8b.
6 Conclusion
This paper presents dual hexagonal shaped microstrip antenna with partial ground plane of 31 × 51.5 mm2, which exhibits an impedance bandwidth of 10.39 GHz, with VSWR less than 2. The proposed antenna confirms that it maintains the favorable conditions for UWB applications such as WLAN, WiMAX, 5G, S, C, and X band. There is a little discrepancy in simulated and measured results due to permissible fabrication error.
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Kumar, R., Sinha, R., Choubey, A., Mahto, S.K., Pal, P., Kumar, P. (2023). Miniaturization of Dual Shaped Monopole Antenna for UWB Application. In: Dhar, S., Do, DT., Sur, S.N., Liu, H.CM. (eds) Advances in Communication, Devices and Networking. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 902. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2004-2_25
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