Impedance Matching Techniques for Microstrip Patch Antenna

Abstract

Objective: To present a concise and comprehensive summarization of various impedance matching techniques for mi-crostrip patch antennas. Method: Designing an impedance matching network is a central issue for optimum performance in every part of RF systems like transceiver, amplifier and antenna to ensure maximum power transfer. Various design for-mulae to calculate the input impedance of patch antenna and techniques to design a matching network should be known to RF designer. Finding: In this paper various impedance matching techniques along with their design equations are presented that utilize quarter wave transformer, taper lines, open or short stubs and lumped elements etc. Methods to calculate the input impedance for various antenna structures like rectangular, circular and triangular patch antenna are described. Application: This paper concisely covers some of the existing techniques to design an impedance matching network that can be used to solve the impedance matching problem encountered during antenna design.