Shorting Plate Planar Inverted Folded Antenna on LC Substrate for Bluetooth Application

Abstract

Number of investigations done to reduce the size of the microstrip patch antennas at a fixed operating frequency. In general microstrip antennas are half wavelength structures and are operated at the fundamental resonant mode TM01 or TM10. To reduce the size without disturbing the substrate material permittivity value we are having some special techniques like shorting pin, shorting plate, shorting wall and some other slot models. This paper describes the design and simulation of planar inverted folded antenna with shorting plate model on the liquid crystal substrate material. The present study includes verification of radiation patterns, return loss and field distributions. The operating frequency is chosen 2.4GHz for Bluetooth applications. All the output parameters are simulated using commercial Ansoft-HFSS Software.