Ku band microstrip rectangular patch

Abstract

This Paper presents a microstrip rectangular patch antenna for satellite communication. This antenna resonates at 15.88 GHz which comes under Ku band. The advantage of this antenna is 5.5 dBi gain and the antenna size is reduced up to 15% to conventional antenna. This microstrip antenna size reduced by Optimization technique. The proposed antenna design has good directivity and sharp narrow band. VSWR of the antenna is almost equal to 1. Impedance matching is perfect and it is almost 50 Ω. Edge side cut Feeding technique is used in this paper which is simple to design. Simulation has been performed by HFSS software.