Electro-Geometrical Analysis of Transversal V-Fold Patch Antenna

Abstract

This paper investigates an original concept of electro-geometrical analysis of flexible microstrip antenna. The research work is focused on the analysis of the innovative effect of “V”- shape folding on the resonance frequency and input impedance of microstrip patch antenna. The V-folded antenna is assumed to behave as an arm constituted by horizontal and tilted members which are geometrically characterized by the folding angle, a. The folding is characterized by the angle between the horizontal plane and the folded part of the patch antenna printed on a Kapton flexible substrate. The initially flat-configured planar antenna was designed to operate at about 2.45 GHz. The innovative design method of the V-shape folded flexible antenna is explained. Full wave electromagnetic simulations of different geometrical states of the flexible antenna were performed in the frequency range from 1 GHz to 5 GHz. Exceptional results of tilted surface radiating part of flexible patch antenna were found with a positive folding angle from amin=0° to amax=45°. It was understood for the first time in the area of antenna engineering that the resonance frequency is fluctuating according to typical sine damping in the function of the V-folding angle variation. The folded angle effect, which has never been understood before is discussed. In addition to the angle effect, the input resistance and input reactance of the V-folded flexible patch antenna is also plotted.

Innovative Methodology to Improve Flexible Antenna Percentage V-folding Performance

“…One of the roadblocks for antenna design engineers is to find reliable solutions integrable into future electronic and communication devices. In this optics, research works are currently going on to identify the highest performance integrable antenna by considering uncommon geometrical shapes, which leads to the development of flexible antennas [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]. Innovative flexible and robust antenna designs have been developed for different applications [26,27].…”

“…According to the targeted applications, geometrically flexible antenna design adapted to wearable-device shapes must be developed [6-8, 10, 11]. It can be noticed that solutions involving FPAs [24,25,[30][31][32][33] using different substrates have become a trend.…”

“…Despite the progressive research work on flexible antenna design [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37], further academic research is necessary to develop relevant methodology enabling radiation performances. In the present study, an innovative FPA design methodology is introduced through a wise conceptualization of folding percentage (FP) in two ways.…”

“…• In Section 4, the improvement of V-folded FPA performance is evaluated by means of the gain (G), directivity (D), total efficiency, resonance frequency (F r ), bandwidth (BW ), and S 11 . The proposed analysis is elaborated by theoretical considerations reported previously [30,31]. • The prototypes and challenging test setups concerning the FP are revealed in Section 5.…”