International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol.
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ISSN: 2088-8708.
DOI: 10.
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An ultra wideband antenna for Ku band applications Aziz El Fatimi1 .
Seddik Bri2 , and Adil Saadi3 Modeling.
Information Processing and Control Systems (MIPCS).
National Graduate School of Arts and Crafts.
Moulay Ismail University.
Meknes.
Morocco Materials and Instrumentation (MIM).
High School of Technology.
Moulay Ismail University.
Meknes.
Morocco
Article Info
ABSTRACT
Article history:
Received Mar 21, 2018 Revised Nov 12, 2018 Accepted Nov 26, 2018 This paper presents a candidate ultra wideband antenna for Ku-band wireless communications applications, analyzed and optimized by the finite element method (FEM).
This three-dimensional modeling was realized and compared with published antennas for validate the performances of the proposed antenna.
Its design is based on the insertion of several symmetrical slots of different sizes on the ground plane of a mono-layer patch antenna to overcome the main limitation of the narrow bandwidth of patch antennas.
The proposed antenna, made on an FR-4 epoxy mono-layer substrate with a defected ground plane .
ielectric constant Ar = 4,4, loss tangent tan = 0,02 and thickness hs = 1.
6 m.
The simulated numerical results obtained are very satisfying.
Bandwidth = 10.
48 GHz from f1 = 9.
34 GHz to f2 = 19.
82 GHz.
S11 = -34.
17 dB.
Voltage Stationary Wave Ratio VSWR = 1.
Gain = 6.
27 dB.
Keywords:
Ku band Wideband Microstrip patch Finite element method Copyright c 2019 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science.
All rights reserved.
Corresponding Author:
Aziz Elfatimi.
Modeling.
Information Processing and Control Systems (MPICS).
National Graduate School of Arts and Crafts.
Moulay Ismail University.
Meknes.
Morocco, 15290 EL Mansour Meknes 50500.
Meknes.
Morocco.
Email: aziz.
elfatimi@edu.
INTRODUCTION
The advent of the microstrip patch antenna has brought a technological revolution in the field of wireless communication because the advantages they offer in terms of manufacturing cost, flexibility and mobility .
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Today, it is omnipresent in our daily lives including the GSM phone, satellite TV and other commercial applications .
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The typical patch antenna consists of a metal plane .
alled patc.
placed on a dielectric substrate in contact with a ground plane .
The patch antenna offers better gain performance compared to conventional dipole or monopole antennas used in the past .
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However, it suffers from several limitations in relation to the low efficiency and low ability to radiate electromagnetic energy in the free space .
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Different forms of microstrip patch antennas are possible depending on the performance and the resonances frequencies required .
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Today, the increasing demand for frequencies has led to the appearance of several frequency bands.
Among them, there is the Ku band (Kurz-unte.
, it is the most used of all other frequency bands for satellite It is conventionally defined in the electromagnetic spectrum defined by the microwave frequency band 4 GHz to 18 GHz.
This band is the most widespread in the world, because of the small size of the parables needed for its reception.
However, it require many demodulators as well as several universal low noise block-converter (LNB.
to receive Ku-band satellites .
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The shape chosen for the proposed antenna is the rectangular and trapeze shapes since they are very easy to analyze using both the transmission line and the cavity model, which are the most accurate for thin substrates .
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In a general way in physics, before proceeding to the realization of such a physical model one passes by the reduced model.
In the field of electromagnetism, several numerical simulation methods have been used to design three-dimensional structures of patches.
These methods are the finite difference time domain (FDTD), the transmission line matrix (TLM), the finite element method (FEM), the finite integration technique (FIT) and other numerical methods .
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In the following of this paper, the first section will be devoted to the mathematical formulation of the maxwellAos equations, then the following section will describe in detail the proposed antenna and how to determine its parameters, at the end of this document a comparison between this antenna and other antennas presented in .
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ULTRA WIDEBAND ANTENNA DESIGN
The microstrip patch antennas (MSA) principle consists of very thin metallic strip .
alled patc.
placed above a ground plane where the thickness of the metallic strip is restricted by t << 0 and the height hs is restricted 003 0 O hs O 0.
05 0 .
In this section, a Defected Ground Structure antenna is presented, studied and optimized using the finite element method.
The antenna is designed on a low cost FR-4 epoxy substrate with dielectric constant Ar = 4.
4 and loss tangent tan = 0.
02 with thickness of 1.
6 mm.
Design of initial patch antenna The calculation of the initial parameters of the proposed microstrip antenna is based on the classical equations presented in .
Microstrip line width:
For W > h :
Ar Oe 1 Ar 1 [ q 2 1 12 h Aef f [ W 23 ln( W h 1.
Aef f = And Z0 = Oo To have an input impedance equal to 50 E, the width of the microstrip must be equal to Wf = 3.
08 mm as shown in Figure .
In this case we will take a rounded value of Wf = 3 mm.
W idth/Height = 1.
Ef f ective Dielectric Constant = 3.
Result Impedanc e = 50.
Figure 1.
Effective dielectric constant and impedance vs microstrip line width An ultra wideband antenna for Ku band applications (Aziz Elfatim.
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Microstrip line length:
The choice of the start length of the microstrip line was calculated using equation .
It is based on a condition for the maximum signal coupling .
Then, the design process was based on the optimization of these parameters on a numerical platform based on the finite element method (FEM).
Lf = Lg /2 .
Table 1 presents a parametric study of the effect of the variation of Lf on the resonance frequency and the return loss.
The microstrip line length has been varied from 8 mm to 12 mm by a step of 1 mm.
The chosen values of the starting parameters are Wf = 3 mm and Lf = 10 mm.
Table 1.
Effect of the variation of Lf on the resonance frequency and the return loss Lf .
Resonance frequency [GH.
Return loss .
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Slot antenna:
The multiple slot allow to control the resonance frequency, the reflection coefficient and the bandwidth by adjusting the width and length of the slot (Wslot and Lslot ).
The parameter Lf allows to control the characteristic input impedance of the antenna.
The slot is modeled as a waveguide inserted into the substrate.
Its parameters are calculated from the following classical equations given in .
g = Oo Aef f Lslot = Ar 1 Aef f = .
Design of the proposed antenna Figure 2 shows the final design of the antenna for a wider bandwidth covering the Ku band is achieved by developing several symmetrical slots.
This new structure uses four slots with nine parameters namely W1 .
W2 .
W3 .
L1 .
L2 .
L3 .
D1 and D2 to get better performance.
Lf is always used to match the impedance of the antenna to 50 E.
In this article, the value of these parameters mentioned above was determined using a numerical platform with a discretization of 0.
01 GHz for the calculation of the frequency.
The total dimension of the proposed antenna is 22 y 20 y 1.
6 mm3 .
Figure 2.
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Table 2 illustrates the different dimensions of the proposed antenna after a series of numerical optimization.
Table 2.
The Optimum Dimensions of the Proposed Antenna Parameter Ground width Ground length Substrate thickness Width of the slot 1 Length of the slot 1 Width of the slot 2 Length of the slot 2 Width of the slot 3 Length of the slot 3 Top width of the slot 4 Base width of the slot 4 Height of the slot 4 Symbol Dimension .
NUMERICAL RESULTS Analysis of the proposed antenna The fundamental criterion for designing an antenna is the value of the return loss (S11 ).
For this purpose, the various parameters of the antenna are varied, analyzed and optimized on a numerical platform based on the finite element method (FEM).
The effect on the return loss by varying W1 .
D1 and W3 are depicted in the Figures 3, 4, 5 and 6 respectively.
Figure 3 shows that with increasing the width W1 , the resonant frequency shifts to the left side.
While increasing the height H, the resonance frequency shifts to the right side as shown in Figure .
In both cases, the bandwidth improves considerably by increasing W1 and H.
Similar investigations are observed by varying the two parameters D1 and W3 .
From the analysis of figures 5 and 6, we can conclude that the base width D1 and the width W3 of the slots primarily control the value of the reflection coefficient of the antenna.
Simulated return loss shifts to the upper with the increase of the value of D1 and it shifts to the lower with the increase of W3 .
The variation of D1 and W3 has no effect on the bandwidth The result obtained from the final geometry of the proposed antenna is shown in Figure 7.
The graph shows a maximum value of S11 = - 34.
17 dB at a resonance frequency of 10.
82 GHz.
The graph also shows that below a threshold of -10 dB, the antenna has reached a bandwidth of 10.
48 GHz from 9.
34 GHz to 19.
82 GHz.
This which represents more than the bandwidth reached in .
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Figure 8 shows the variation of antenna gain relative to the frequency.
The antenna has maximum gain of 27 dB at 11 GHz and a gain greater than 4.
08 dB over the entire frequency band from 9.
34 GHz to 19.
82 GHz.
The antenna radiation patterns in the E and H planes at 10.
98 GHz, 14.
3 GHz, 16 GHz and 18.
6 GHz are illustrated in Figure 9, 10, 11 and 12.
A directional diagram is observed in the plane E and the pseudo omnidirectional diagram in the plane H.
Comparison between the proposed antenna and antennas cited in .
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The antenna proposed in .
achieves a reflection coefficient of -26 dB, a bandwidth of 2.
8 GHz from 20 GHz to 14.
0 GHz and a gain of 4,65 dB.
Another antenna structure was presented in .
achieves a maximum reflection coefficient of -33 dB at a resonance frequency of 14.
13 GHz.
It also achieves below -10 dB, a bandwidth of 2.
5 GHz from 12 GHz to 14.
5 GHz with an average gain of 8 dB over the entire band range of 12 GHz to 14.
5 GHz.
According to .
, an improved bandwidth microstrip antenna has been proposed for satellite Bandwidth has been improved by using parasitic patches.
This antenna has a bandwidth of 4.
GHz, a return loss of -49.
07 dB at the center frequency, a maximum gain of 8.
25 dB.
In summary.
Table 3 presents a comparison between the performances of these antennas.
We find that our proposed antenna realized on a low cost FR-4 epoxy substrate realizes a competitive performance compared to An ultra wideband antenna for Ku band applications (Aziz Elfatim.
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It also offers a very wide bandwidth can be candidate for satellite communication applications or other cognitive applications in the frequency range from 9.
34 GHz to 19.
83 GHz.
CONCLUSION
In this work, a structure of a miniaturized ultra wideband patch, having a simplicity of construction at low cost and a better performance, has been proposed for wireless communication applications in the Ku band.
It can also be performed in antenna array to increase gain and directivity.
This patch has a low cost FR-4 epoxy substrate with constant dielectric Ar = 4.
4 and tan = 0.
Several symmetrical slots have been inserted on the ground to increase the size of the bandwidth.
This antenna offers a gain of 6.
27 dB, a very wide band of 10.
48 GHz from 34 GHz to 19.
82 GHz, a low cost of implementation and a simplicity of manufacture.
The comparative study conducted in the last section showed a better performance achieved especially the So this antenna can be a very good candidate for telecommunication applications in Ku-band or other cognitive applications.
Figure 3.
Return loss by varying W1 Figure 4.
Return loss by varying H Figure 5.
Return loss by varying D1 Figure 6.
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Figure 8.
Gain vs frequency Figure 7.
Return loss vs frequency Figure 9.
Directivity at f = 10.
98 GHz Figure 10.
Directivity at f = 14.
3 GHz Figure 11.
Directivity at f = 16 GHz Figure 12.
Directivity at f = 18.
6 GHz An ultra wideband antenna for Ku band applications (Aziz Elfatim.
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Comparison between antennas Parameter Substrate material Dielectric constant Frequency range [GH.
Return loss .
B] Bandwidth [GH.
Gain .
B] Proposed antenna FR-4 epoxy .
34 - 19.
17 dB 48 GHz 27 dB Ref.
FR-4 epoxy .
Ref.
Teflon PTFE .
- 14.
-33 dB 5 GHz 44 dB Ref.
07 dB
08 GHz
25 dB
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