Design of microstrip meandered patch antenna for mobile communication

Abstract

The enhancing bandwidth and size reduction mechanism that improves the performance of a conventional micro strip patch antenna on a relatively thin substrate (about 0.006 λ ), is presented in this research. The design adopts meandered patch structure. Introducing the novel meandered square patch, offer a low profile, broadband, high gain, and compact antenna element. The proposed patch has a compact dimension of 0.384 λ × 0.384 λ (where λ is the guided wavelength of the centre operating frequency). The design is suitable for applications with respect to a given frequency of 750-1100 MHz. The simulated bandwidth of the proposed antenna is about 39%. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.