Wide-Band T-Shaped Microstrip-Fed Twin-Slot Array Antenna

Abstract

A numerical simulation and an experimental implementation of T‐shaped microstrip‐fed printed slot array antenna are presented in this paper. The proposed antenna with relative permittivity 4.3 and thickness 1.0mm is analyzed by the finite‐difference time‐domain (FDTD) method. The dependence of design parameters on the bandwidth characteristics is investigated. The measured bandwidth of twin‐slot array antenna is from 1.37 GHz to 2.388 GHz, which is approximately 53.9 % for return loss less than or equal to ‐10 dB. The bandwidth of twin‐slot is about 1.06 % larger than that of single‐slot antenna. The measured results are in good agreement with the FDTD results.

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