Survey on performance parameters of planar microwave antennas

Ravi Kumar; Anchal Garg; Heli Shah; Bhupinder Kaur

doi:10.52756/10.52756/ijerr.2023.v31spl.017

Ravi Kumar Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Jain (Deemed-to-be University), Bengaluru, India https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9617-6702
Anchal Garg Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Dev Bhoomi Uttarakhand University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7473-0960
Heli Shah Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Parul Institute of Technology, Parul University, Vadodara, Gujarat, India https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3290-6555
Bhupinder Kaur Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Chandigarh Engineering College, Jhanjeri, India https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7627-3214

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52756/10.52756/ijerr.2023.v31spl.017

Keywords: Antenna, Planar device, Microwave, Polarization, Electromagnetic field, High-frequency applications

Abstract

Planar antennas, which include microstrip antennas and printed circuit board antennas, are used in telecommunications. This study aims to provide an overview of microstrip antennas for diverse applications. Microstrip patch antenna design is a new study topic that has been established for usage in 5th-generation communication applications. An antenna is a group of connected devices that serve as a single antenna to broadcast or receive radio waves. Antennas come in a variety of designs and sizes. The paper discusses several printed microstrip antenna designs, such as rectangular to circular, broadband, dual-band, millimeter-wave and microstrip arrays. The microstrip patch is an antenna layout that is lightweight, low-profile, and results-oriented. Microstrip patch antennas may be employed in various 6G communication system applications in the future. This paper examines antenna geometric structures, antenna analysis methodologies, antenna dimensions and many different types of antennas. It will also go over the substrate materials, loss tangent, thickness, return loss, bandwidth, voltage-standing-wave-ratio (VSWR), gain, and directivity so that an optimized antenna can be designed and fabricated having excellent characteristics for use in modern applications by the promising academic researchers in the near future.

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