Investigation of the monopole antenna performance on hybrid material substrate

Abstract

In the current telecommunication system, more applications such as GPS and video conferencing which need higher data rate has been discovered. In order to provide higher data rate, wider system bandwidth is needed for transferring data in a shorter time. Thus, an antenna which can provide wide bandwidth is significant to cover the desired system bandwidth. Recent researches also show that the using of hybrid substrate can improve the antenna performance. This paper investigates the monopole antenna performance on hybrid material substrate. The monopole antenna has been simulated in Computer Simulation Technology (CST) software in open space condition to investigate the antenna performance in resonant frequency, bandwidth, return loss, gain, directivity, and efficiency. Investigation shows that the increment of dielectric constant of hybrid material substrate, ɛr2 increases the return loss of frequency band from 2.9-6.6GHz without affecting the operating bandwidth. Notably, the increment of ɛr2 also brought to a forming of new frequency band at around 8.8GHz. Furthermore, increment on the thickness of hybrid material substrate will cause the return loss at first operating frequency band to be increased. However, the changes has lowered the frequency band and decreased the return loss until it formed a new broadband at 8GHz. The changes in position of second material substrate have also brought to a narrower bandwidth of the first operating frequency band for FR4-Copper-Hybrid Substrate (FCH) and FR4-Hybrid Substrate-Copper (FHC) configuration. Remarkably, Copper-FR4-Hybrid Substrate (CFH) configuration has maintained the bandwidth but increased the return loss of the first operating band.