High Impedance Electromagnetic Bandgap Research Articles

Gain Enhancement of Microstrip Antenna using Ebg Structure for Wi-Fi Application

A microstrip patch antenna is low profile antenna mounted over a high impedance electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) substrate is proposed. In this paper, Microstrip patch antenna with rectangular EBG structure is proposed and studied. The proposed antenna has compact structure with a total size of 29.44x38.036mm2. The designed antenna resonates at Particular Single frequency with improved return loss, VSWR and gain. The resonant frequency of the antenna 2.4GHz without and with EBG and improved return loss of -17.61dB and -18.30dB. With rectangular EBG the antenna gives improved gain of 2.09 dB. The Proposed antenna is simulated by using Simulation software ie.(IE3D) and simulated results are in good with practical antenna characteristics.

Improving microstrip patch antenna performance using EBG substrates

Microstrip patch antennas mounted over a high impedance electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) substrate are studied. The structure is equivalent to a new microstrip antenna, where the conducting ground plane is replaced by a high impedance EBG layer. Initially, the bandgap of the EBG structure is determined. Then, patch antennas with this EBG ground plane are designed to work within and outside the bandgaps. Parametric studies are conducted to maximise their impedance bandwidths and gains. It is found that very wide bandwidths, of around 25%, can be obtained by variation of the original antenna and EBG parameters. Their gains are similarly increased. Sample antennas are also fabricated and tested, to verify the designs.