The design and test of microstrip slot antenna array for 3D microwave imaging for the structural assessment of concrete structure is presented in this paper. The array contains 16 antenna elements and uses microstrip feed network for the ease in the design. It also adopts commercially available PIN diodes as switches to control the sequence of turning on or off microstrip slot antenna elements....

Microstrip patch antennas became very popular in mobile and radio wireless communication, due to ease of their analysis, fabrication, and attractive radiation characteristics. The use of Microstrip antenna in wireless communication found advantageous compared to other types of antenna due to their low fabrication cost, small size, supporting character to linear as well as circular polarization,...

A dual-band circularly polarized stacked microstrip antenna for ISM Bands (2.45GHz & 5.8GHz) applications is designed and implemented. By stacking two different corner-truncated square patches in a dielectric substrate layer, the microstrip antenna for dual-frequency circular polarization (CP) can be achieved with −11.5 dB and −12.8 dB measured return loss for 2.45GHz and 5.8GHz. Semicircular g...

The microstrip antennas have been one of the most innovative fields of antenna techniques for the last three decades. Microstrip antennas have several advantages such as lightweight, smallvolume, and that they can be made conformal to the host surface. In addition, these antennas are manufactured using printed-circuit technology, so that mass production can be achieved at a low cost. Microstrip...

In our paper, an inset-fed microstrip patch antenna has been designed and the dependency of resonant frequency on the notch gap and the feed line geometry has been studied. Our study suggests that a narrower notch resulted in better impedance matching. A design rule has also been formulated and presented the performance of the proposed design. Key-Words: Inset-fed, microstrip antenna

In recent years, great interest was focused on microstrip antennas for their small and good performance. With the continuous growth of wireless communication communication equipment, there are higher and higher demands feed single layer compact rectangular microstrip antenna application is proposed in this paper. Two L slits are introduced at edge of the patch to reduce the resonant frequency. ...

In this paper, compact antenna has been designed that can be implemented in a 2X2 Multiple-Input MultipleOutput (MIMO) system. A microstrip patch antenna fed by a microstrip line is designed for a frequency of 2.4 GHz used for industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) band applications. Polarization diversity of the two antennas is used to construct independent and uncorrelated signals on each a...

In this paper, a multifunctional microstrip antenna is designed, fabricated and experimentally verified for operation in AWS, GSM, WiMAX and WLAN bands. This microstrip patch antenna has two U-shaped slots to achieve the dual wideband operation required to meet these specifications. The dimensions and locations of the Uslots are designed appropriately. The thick substrate used here helps in int...

This paper presents a novel approach to design a line feed microstrip antenna for wide-band operation. The proposed microstrip antenna has been presented wide bandwidth of about 59.50% covering the range 1.552 GHz2.867 GHz which is suitable for DCS/UMTS applications. It has also been observed that for the wide-band frequency configurations studied and the proposed antenna has been designed and ...

A single layer monopole hexagonal patch antenna is thoroughly simulated in this paper. Resonant frequency has been reduced drastically by cutting two equal slots which are the combinations of two triangular and one rectangular slot at the upper right and lower left corner and middle point symmetrical Y-junction slot located from the conventional microstrip patch antenna. Compared to a conventio...