Design of a compact microstrip antenna at 2.4GHZ

With the recent advances in telecommunications, the need for compact antennas has greatly increased. Electronic equipment has rapidly reduced in physical size due to the development of integrated circuits, especially in mobile communications; the demand for the smaller antennas is quite strong. Howe...

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Main Author:	Abdul Ghafar, Nurulrodziah
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2005
Subjects:	TK Electrical engineering Electronics Nuclear engineering
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/2999/1/NurulrodziahMFKE2005.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.29992018-06-25T00:45:55Z Design of a compact microstrip antenna at 2.4GHZ 2005-11 Abdul Ghafar, Nurulrodziah TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering With the recent advances in telecommunications, the need for compact antennas has greatly increased. Electronic equipment has rapidly reduced in physical size due to the development of integrated circuits, especially in mobile communications; the demand for the smaller antennas is quite strong. However, requirements on antenna performance on such small equipment are becoming increasingly severe, since the antenna performance should not be significantly degraded as the size become smaller. The microstrip antenna is one of the most preferable for small equipment, especially when a built-in antenna is required. It has many advantages such as low profile and easy fabrication. However for low-frequency applications, the microstrip size becomes too large for practical implementation. One of the problems in microstrip antenna technology is the reduction of the antenna sizes. The aim of this project was to design, fabricate and test a compact microstrip patch antennas operating at 2.4GHz. Three microstrip antennas operating at 2.4GHz was designed, fabricated and tested; a conventional rectangular microstrip antenna, a compact rectangular microstrip antenna with shorted wall method and a compact rectangular microstrip antenna with shorted pin method. Those designs were simulated with Microwave Office software and tested with the Marconi Scalar Analyzer. Both, simulated and measured data were compared and contrasted 2005-11 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/2999/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/2999/1/NurulrodziahMFKE2005.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Electrical Engineering
institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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language	English
topic	TK Electrical engineering Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle	TK Electrical engineering Electronics Nuclear engineering Abdul Ghafar, Nurulrodziah Design of a compact microstrip antenna at 2.4GHZ
description	With the recent advances in telecommunications, the need for compact antennas has greatly increased. Electronic equipment has rapidly reduced in physical size due to the development of integrated circuits, especially in mobile communications; the demand for the smaller antennas is quite strong. However, requirements on antenna performance on such small equipment are becoming increasingly severe, since the antenna performance should not be significantly degraded as the size become smaller. The microstrip antenna is one of the most preferable for small equipment, especially when a built-in antenna is required. It has many advantages such as low profile and easy fabrication. However for low-frequency applications, the microstrip size becomes too large for practical implementation. One of the problems in microstrip antenna technology is the reduction of the antenna sizes. The aim of this project was to design, fabricate and test a compact microstrip patch antennas operating at 2.4GHz. Three microstrip antennas operating at 2.4GHz was designed, fabricated and tested; a conventional rectangular microstrip antenna, a compact rectangular microstrip antenna with shorted wall method and a compact rectangular microstrip antenna with shorted pin method. Those designs were simulated with Microwave Office software and tested with the Marconi Scalar Analyzer. Both, simulated and measured data were compared and contrasted
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Abdul Ghafar, Nurulrodziah
author_facet	Abdul Ghafar, Nurulrodziah
author_sort	Abdul Ghafar, Nurulrodziah
title	Design of a compact microstrip antenna at 2.4GHZ
title_short	Design of a compact microstrip antenna at 2.4GHZ
title_full	Design of a compact microstrip antenna at 2.4GHZ
title_fullStr	Design of a compact microstrip antenna at 2.4GHZ
title_full_unstemmed	Design of a compact microstrip antenna at 2.4GHZ
title_sort	design of a compact microstrip antenna at 2.4ghz
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
granting_department	Faculty of Electrical Engineering
publishDate	2005
url	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/2999/1/NurulrodziahMFKE2005.pdf
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Design of a compact microstrip antenna at 2.4GHZ

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