GAIN ENHANCEMENT OF RECTANGULAR MICROSTRIP PATCH ANTENNA WITH MULTIPLE SUBSTRATE LAYER STACKING TECHNIQUE
Above 1GHz, microstrip antenna is extensively used in wireless communication. The demand of increased wireless communication applications needs increase in bandwidth, gain and efficiency of microstrip antenna. Microstrip antenna is a low profile antenna but has narrow bandwidth, low gain and efficiency. In this paper, a microstrip antenna is designed with multiple substrate, multi layer to improve bandwidth, gain and efficiency. The enhanced performance of proposed design is compared with single layer FR-4 substrate microstrip antenna. A bandwidth enhancement of 357.14%, gain enhancement of 158.62% and efficiency enhancement of 35.3% are achieved with proposed antenna. The achieved bandwidth is 480MHz, maximum gain is 7.5dB and efficiency of 92 percent with proposed antenna.
HFSS, gain, multiple layer substrate, wireless communication.