Design Ideas for Printed and Microstrip Antennas

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Note:

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It should not be assumed that because a technique or physical structure is described here it is free of patents or other commercial Intellectual Property.

They are presented here only for information and educational purposes.

        - Ground Plane Effect on Printed Antennas

        - Planar Antennas Selection Chart

        - Basic Microstrip Antenna Shapes

        - Basic Printed Slot Antennas with Feed Structures

        - Comparison of Microstrip Patch and Slot Antennas

• 10-dBi Dual-fed Slotted Planar Antenna

• 14-dBi Gain P2P Antenna

• Aperture Coupled Microstrip Antenna

• Bent Wideband Printed Antenna for 3GHz to 5GHz

• Broadband PI-shaped Monopole Antenna for 2.4GHz

• Broadband Rectangular Slot Antenna for 1.8GHz to 5.8GHz

• Circular Polarization Wideband Aperture Antenna for 1.45GHz to 2.15GHz

• Circular Polarization with 4 Patch Antennas

• Circularly Polarized Microstrip Patch Antenna for 5.5GHz

• CPW Rectenna for 5.8GHz

• CPW-fed Planar UWB Antenna

• CPW-fed Quasi-Yagi Antenna

• Crossed Half-Disc Antenna

• Derivatives of Inverted-L Antenna

• Disc Monopole Antenna

• Diversity Printed Dipole Antenna

• Diversity Printed Dipole with Microstrip Balun for 2.4GHz

• Double-Rectangular Dual-Band Patch Antenna for 2.4GHz and 5.5GHz

• Double-T Microstrip Antenna for 2GHz

• Dual Polarization Radiating Elements

• Dual-Band Hitachi-Cable Antenna for 2.4GHz and 5.5GHz

• Dual-Band Hitachi-Cable Antenna for 900MHz and 1.9GHz

• Dual-Band PIFA Antenna for 900MHz and 1.8GHz

• Dual-Band PIFA for 2.4GHz and 5.6GHz

• Dual-Band Planar Inverted-F Antenna for 900MHz and 1.9GHz

• Dual-Band Printed Dipole Coax-Fed

• Dual-Slot Dual-Band Antenna for 2.4GHz and 5.2GHz

• E-shape Patch Antenna for 5GHz to 6GHz

• E-shape U-shape Patch Antenna for 5.5GHz

• Five-Bands Printed Loop Antenna

• Flexible Inverted-F Antenna for 2.4GHz

• Flexible Wideband Inverted-F Antenna

• Folded Broadband Patch Antenna for 2.3GHZ to 3.6GHz

• Folded Dipole for 434MHz

• Folded Meander Dual-Band Mini-Antenna for 2.4GHz and 5.6GHz

• Folded Slot Antenna

• Foursquare Antenna for 6GHz

• F-Shape Slots Dualband Antenna for 2.4GHz and 5.5GHz

• IIFA and BhA Antennas for 2.4GHz

• Inverted FL Dual-Frequency Antenna for 2.4GHz and 5.6GHz

• Inverted-F Antenna for ISM Band 2.4GHz

• Log-Periodic Patch Antenna for 2.4GHz

• Low-Profile Dual-Band Monopole Antenna for DCS / PCS

• Meander PIFA Antenna for 860MHz

• Metal Strips Dual-Band PIFA Antenna

• Metal-Plate Antenna for 2.4GHz

• Metal-Plate Array Antenna for 5.5GHz

• Metal-Plate Dual-Band Antenna for 2.4GHz to 5.2GHz

• Microstrip Antenna for GPS and DCS

• Microstrip Antenna with Parasitic Patches

• Miniaturized Printed Wire Antenna for 2.4GHz

• Monopoles and Dipoles Printed on PCB

• Multiband Compact Antenna for 2.4GHz and 5.5GHz

• Multiband Printed Antenna

• Omnidirectional Dual-Band Monopole Antenna for 2.4GHz and 5.2GHz

• Omnidirectional Planar Microstrip Antenna for 2.4GHz

• Open Slot Antenna for 916MHz

• Patch Antenna with Wideband Meander Fed-Line for 1.8GHz

• Planar Spiral Monopole Antenna

• Printed Bluetooth UWB Antenna

• Printed Koch Antenna for 2.4GHz

• Printed Loop Antenna for 433MHz

• Printed Meander Line Antenna for 2.4GHz

• Printed Open-Stub Antenna for 916MHz

• Printed Short-Stub Antenna for 433MHz and 916MHz

• Printed Slot Antennas

• Quad-Band PIFA

• Rectangle Patch Antenna for 916MHz

• Semi-Loop Antenna for 433MHz

• Spiral Antenna for 433MHz and 916MHz

• Split-Ring Dual-Band Antenna for 2.4GHz and 5.5GHz

• Strip Monopole Antenna

• Suspended Patch Antenna fed by an L-shaped

• Tapped PCB Loop Antenna for 916MHz

• Trapezoidal Monopole Antenna

• Trapezoidal Patch Antenna for 916MHz

• Trapezoidal Planar Antennas

• Triple-Band Folded Monopole for 900MHz, 1.8GHz, 2.4GHz

• Tunable Dual-Band Antenna for 2.4GHz and 5.5GHz

• Twin L-probe Coupled Patch Antenna

• UHF Circularly Polarized Antenna

• Ultra-Wideband Tap-Monopole Antenna for 3GHz to 20GHz

• USB Stick Size Printed Meander-Line Antenna for 2.4GHz

• UWB Triangular Monopole Antenna

• Very Wideband Double-Dipole Antenna

• Very Wideband Tapered Patch Antenna

• Vivaldi UWB Antenna

• Wideband Unidirectional Antenna with a T-strip Coupled Feed

• Wideband Complementary Antenna with a Square-cap Coupled Feed

• Wideband Complemetary Antenna

• Wideband Cross-Plate Monopole Antenna

• Wideband Dipole with Parasitic Element for 2GHz

• Wideband Printed Antenna

• Wideband Printed Bow-Tie Antenna

• Wideband Vivaldi Antenna for 3GHz to 6GHz

• Widely Tunable Compact Patch Antenna

• 2.4GHz Inverted-F Antenna

• Band-Rejected Elliptical Antenna for 3GHz to 15GHz

• Bow-Tie Antenna with Microstrip-fed for C and X bands

• Bow-Tie Slot Antenna for 2.4GHz, 5.2GHz and 5.8GHz

• Circularly Polarized Loop Antenna with Parasitic Element for 5.6GHz

• Compact Slotted Bow-tie Patch Antenna

• Coupled Loop Antenna for 820MHz to 2.2GHz

• CPW-Fed Curved Bow-Tie Slot Antenna for 2.4GHz and 5.5GHz

• Diversity PIFA Antenna for 2.4GHz and 5.5GHz

• Double-Sided Triangular Bow-Tie Antenna

• Dual Meander-Line Multi-Band Antenna for 850MHz to 2.5GHz

• Dual Rhombic Loop Antenna with Broadband Balun

• Dual-Band Meander-Line Antenna for 2.4GHz and 5.4GHz

• Electrically Small Meander-Line Antenna for 2.4GHz and 5GHz

• GPS Meander-Line Antenna for 1.575GHz

• Printed Loop Antenna with Tuning Element

• Sinusoidal Printed Monopole Antennas for 2.4GHz

• Small-Size Printed Loop Antenna

• Band-Notch Wideband Monopole Antenna for 3GHz to 11GHz

• Circular Patch Antenna with Elliptical Slot for 2.4GHz and 5.2GHz

• Circularly Polarized Square Patch Antennas for 3GHz

• Low-SAR Low-Size Spiral Antenna for 915MHz

• Microstrip Antenna with U-slot for 0.8GHz to 1.3GHz

• Patch Antenna with Multi-Resonator Matching Network for 3GHz

• Rectangular Ring Microstrip Antenna

• Single-Feed Circularly-Polarized Patch Antenna Types

• Triangular Microstrip Antenna with U-slot for 1.5GHz to 1.9GHz

• Wideband Monopole with Parasitic Element for 2GHz for 6GHz

• Wideband Vivaldi Antenna Element for 1GHz to 6GHz

• Circularly Polarized Corner-Truncated Patch Antenna for GPS

• Inverted-L Antenna with Tapered Patch for 1.5GHz and 2.7GHz

• Meandered Circular Microstrip Antenna for 1.6GHz

• Microstrip Antenna with Meandered Ground Plane

• Microstrip-Line-fed Shorted Patch Antenna for 1.7GHz

• Planar Inverted-L Antenna for 1.7GHz and 2.7GHz

• Probe-fed Shorted Patch Antenna for 1.8GHz and 2.4GHz

• Triangular Microstrip Antenna Loaded with Chip Resistor

• Bow-Tie Antenna with Narrow-Slots for 1.8GHz and 3.6GHz

• Broadband Antenna with Parasitic Patches for 2.8GHz

• Broadband Probe-fed Circular-E Microstrip Antenna for 1.8GHz

• Circular Antenna with Circular Slot for 1.6GHz and 2.1GHz

• Circular Microstrip Antenna with Ring Slot for 1.6GHz and 2GHz

• Circular Microstrip Antenna with Slots for 1.6GHz and 2.4GHz

• Circularly Polarized Annular-Ring Antenna for 1.6GHz

• Circularly Polarized Antenna with Truncated-Corners

• Circularly Polarized Antenna with LHCP Tuning Stub for 1.57GHz

• Circularly Polarized Patch Antenna with 4-Slits for 1.8GHz

• Circularly Polarized Triangular Antenna with Slot for 1.9GHz

• Equilateral Triangular Microstrip Antenna with Slots

• Equilateral Triangular Microstrip Antenna with Spur-Lines

• Gain-Enhanced Microstrip Patch Antenna for 1.8GHz

• Line-fed Circular Antenna with Slot for 1.6GHz and 2.2GHz

• Microstrip Antenna with Bent Slots for 1.8GHz and 2.4GHz

• Microstrip Antenna with Reactive Loading for 1.9GHz

• Microstrip Patch with T-shaped Slits for 1.8GHz and  2.4GHz

• Rectangular Patch with Bent-Slots for 1.8GHz and 2.4GHz

• Rectangular Patch with Cross-Slot for 1.8GHz and 2.4GHz

• Shorted Triangular Microstrip Antenna for 460MHz and 2.3GHz

• Two-Element Microstrip Array for 1.6GHz and 2GHz

• Dielectric Resonant Microstrip Antenna for 1.7GHz and 2.4GHz

• IFA and Loaded-IFA Antennas for 5.5GHz

• Interleaved F-shaped Patch Antenna for 1.9GHz and 2.4GHz

• Small Printed Wire Antenna for 2.4GHz

• Printed Dipole with Electro-Magnetic-Bandgap Ground-Plane for 2.4GHz

• Printed Multi-Band Antenna for 2.4GHz and 5GHz

• Broadband Circular  Patch with Embedded-Reactive Loading for 1.9GHz

• Broadband Circular Microstrip Antenna with Ring Slots for 2.2GHz

• Broadband Multi-Slot Patch Antenna for 1.7GHz

• Broadband Patch Antenna with U-Shaped Slot for 2.2GHz

• Broadband Slotted Rectangular Microstrip Antenna for 1.8GHz

• Circularly Polarized Antenna with Wilkinson Divider for 1.5GHz to 2.4GHz

• Dual-Polarized Patch with Coupled-Feed Slots for 1.6GHz to 1.9GHz

• CPW Slot Antennas

• Folded Loop Antenna

• Polarization Diversity Inverted-L Antenna

• Triple-Band Linear & Circular Polarization Antenna

• Circular Polarization for Patch Antennas

• Circular Polarization for Patch with Thin Slots

• Meandering Inverted-F Antenna for 900 MHz

• Meandering Monopole PCB Antenna for 900 MHz

• Printed Folded Dipole for 2.4 GHz

• USB-Dongle PCB Antenna for 2.4 GHz

• Yagi PCB Antenna for 2.4GHz

• Three Gap-Coupled Shorted C-Shaped uStrip antenna for 900 MHz

• Circular Patch Antenna with Circular Slot L-probe for 5 GHz

• Circular Microstrip Antenna with U-Slot for 4 GHz

• C-Shaped Microstrip Antenna with Matching Network for 680 MHz

• Folded Dipole Rectenna for 5.8 GHz

• H-Shaped Microstrip Antenna

• Patch Antenna Switchable Polarization and Coordinates

• Radiating-Edge Gap-Coupled Microstrip Antenna for 750 MHz

• Rectangular Ring Shorted Microstrip Antenna for 850 MHz

• Rectangular U-slot Patch Antenna for 5.6 GHz

• Ring-Resonator Microstrip Antenna

• Shorted C-Shaped Microstrip Antenna

• Stacked U-slot Antenna

• Wideband Double U-slot Patch Antenna for 1 GHz to 2 GHz

• Wideband RSMA with U-slot 0.8 GHz for 1.3 GHz

• Dual-Band Circularly Polarized S-shaped Slotted Antenna

• USB-Dongle PCB Antenna for 2.4GHz

• Circular Meander Inverted-F Antenna

• Printed Circular Disc Monopole Antenna

• T-Shaped Dual-Band Planar Monopole Antenna

• Continuously Tuned PIFA

• CPW-Fed Quasi-Yagi Antenna

• Dual-Band Spiral Antenna for WLAN

• Dual C-Slot Printed Antenna

• Dual-Arm CPW-Fed Printed Monopole Antenna

• Dual-Arm Printed Monopole Antenna

• Dual-Band 802.11abg PIFA

• Dual-Band PIFA Hilbert Element

• Dual-Frequency Stacked Shorted Patch Antenna

• Dual-Resonance Spiral-Like Shorted Patch Antenna

• Microstrip Feed Folded Slot Antenna

• Multiple-Frequency PIFA

• PIFA with Parasitic Elements

• PIFA with T-Shaped Ground

• Planar Inverted-F Antenna from Monopole

• Planar Inverted-F Antenna from Patch

• Planar Sierpinsky-Gasket Antenna

• Printed Folded Beverage Antenna

• Shorted Perforated Antenna

• Single-Feed Shorted Patch Antenna with Low Cross-Polarized Fields

• Small Dual L-Shaped Printed Antenna

• Surface-Mount Printed Monopole Antenna

• Triple-Arm Printed Monopole Antenna

• Varactor Loaded Patch Antenna

• Wideband Meander PIFA Resistor Loaded

• Wideband Slot-Loaded-Tapered PIFA

• Ultra-Wideband Slot Antenna for Polarization Diversity

• Drooped Microstrip  Antennas for GPS

• Dually Polarized 434MHz Printed Antenna

• Single-Port Tunable Filter Antenna

• Bent Planar Monopole with Slits for 900 MHz and 1.8 GHz

• Brand Patch Monopole for 900 MHz and 1.8 GHz

• Broadband 1x2 Probe Fed E-Patch for 1.8 GHz

• Broadband Circularly Polarized Probe Fed for WLAN

• Broadband Folded Monopole for DCS-PCS-UMTS-WLAN

• Broadband Patch Edge Fed 1.8 GHz

• Broadband Probe Fed E-Patch for 1.8 GHz and 1.9 GHz

• Broadband Probe Fed Patch for 1.8 GHz

• Broadband Probe Fed Patch with Short Probe for 1.8 GHz

• Broadband Probe Fed Patch W-Shape for 2.1 GHz

• Broadband Triple-Band Patch for 900 MHz, 1.8 MHz, 1.9 MHz

• Broadband Microstrip Line Fed Patch for UMTS

• CPW Fed Inverted-F Monopole for 1.9 GHz and 2.2 GHz

• CPW Fed Ultra Wideband Slot Antenna

• Dual Band Branch Line Monopole for 900 MHz and 1.8 GHz - 25mm

• Dual Band Branch Line Monopole for 900 MHz and 1.8 GHz - 36mm

• Dual Band Folded Strip Monopole for 2.4 GHz and 5.2 GHz

• Dual Band F-Shaped Monopole for 2.4 GHz and 5.2 GHz

• Dual Band PIFA with Folded Slit Loaded Patch 900 MHz and 1.8 GHz

• Dual Band PIFA with Meandered Patch Folded End for 900 MHz and 1.8 GHz

• Dual Band PIFA with Patch Loaded with Inductor and Capacitor

• Dual Band PIFA with Rectangular Spiral Strip and Inductor

• Dual Band PIFA with Shorted Strips and Patch for 900 MHz and 1.8 GHz

• Dual Band PIFA with Spiral Strip Nonuniform Width

• Dual Band PIFA with Two Shorting Strips for 2.4 GHz and 5.6 GHz

• Dual Band Planar Inverted-L for 2.4 GHz and 5.2 GHz

• Dual Band Plastic Chip Antenna for 900 MHz and 1.8 GHz

• Dual Band Printed Dipoles with Coax Fed for 2.4 GHz and 5.2 GHz

• Dual Band Printed Diversity Monopole for 2.4 GHz and 5.2 GHz

• Dual Band Printed Inverted-F Antenna for 2.4 GHz and 5.2 GHz

• Dual Band Rectangular Spiral Monopole for 2.4 GHz and 5.2 GHz

• Dual Polarization Compact Patch for 2.4 GHz

• Dual Polarized Patch with Capacitive Slot Coupling for 1.8 GHz

• Dual Polarized Patch for Base Station for 1.8 GHz

• Dual Polarized Slot Coupled Patch for 1.8 GHz

• Dual Band PIFA for 1.56 GHz and 3.6 GHz

• Folded Meandered Patch for 900 MHz and 1.8 GHz

• Inverted-L Monopole Loaded with Wire for 900 MHz and 1.8 GHz

• Inverted-L Strip Monopole Inductor Loaded

• L-Shaped Ground Plane Monopole for 1.8 GHz

• Microstrip Ultra Wideband Slot Antenna

• Patch with Branch Line Slit for 900 MHz and 1.8 GHz

• PIFA with Rectangular Top Patch for 2 GHz

• Printed Spiral Monopole with Coax Fed for 2.4 GHz and 5.2 GHz

• Rectangular Spiral Planar Monopoles

• Stacked PIFA for 1.8 GHz

• Stacked PIFA for 900 MHz

• Triple Band Branch Line Monopole for 900 MHz, 1.8 GHz, 1.9 GHz

• Triple Band Planar Monopole with Slits for 900 MHz, 1.8 GHz, 1.9 GHz

• Triple Band PIFA Antenna for 900 MHz, 1.8 GHz, 2.4 GHz

• Triple Band PIFA with Branch Line Strip for 900 MHz, 1.8 GHz, 2.4 GHz

• Wire PIFA with L-shaped Ground for 2 GHz

• Aperture Coupled Circular Polarized Stacked DRA for 7.5 GHz to 11 GHz

• Asymmetric Circular Shaped Slotted Patch Antenna for 915 MHz

• Broadband Circular Polarized Antenna Dual Coupled Feeds for 1.5 GHz to 2.2 GHz

• Broadband Circular Polarized Antenna with L-shaped Patch for 2.4 GHz

• Broadband CP Patch Antenna with L-shaped Ground Plane for 2.6 GHz

• Broadband CP Shorted Ring Slot for 1.8 GHz to 2.7 GHz

• Broadband Circular Polarized Antenna with Microstrip-Fed and Parasitic Patch

• Broadband Slot-Loaded Patch Antenna for 5.5 GHz

• Circular Patch with two Circular Slots for 2.4 GHz

• Circular Patch with Cross Slot for 1.52 GHz

• Circular Polarized Ring Slot Antenna with L-shaped Feed

• Circularly Polarized Annular-Ring Patch for 1.52 GHz

• Circularly Polarized Antenna with Slotted Ground for 1.52 GHz

• Circularly Polarized Square Ring Slot Antenna with Asymmetry Slot for 1.5 GHz

• Circularly Polarized Square-Ring Patch for 1.52 GHz

• Circular Polarized DRA with Hybrid Coupler for 1.7GHz to 2.5 GHz

• Circular Polarized Ring Slot with Broadband Coupler for 4.8 GHz to 6 GHz

• Circular Polarized Slot with Grounded Strip for 800 MHz to 2 GHz

• Circular Polarized Slot with Inverted-L Strips for 800 MHz to 2 GHz

• Circular Polarized Slot with L-shape Feed for 3 GHz to 4.4 GHz

• Circular Polarized Wide Slot with Loading Patch for 1.8 GHz to 2.8 GHz

• CPW-fed Circular Polarized Slot Antenna for 2.4 GHz

• Cross Shaped Patch with Slot for 1.52 GHz

• Dual-band CP Annular-Ring Antenna for 1.2 GHz and 1.5 GHz

• Dual-band CP Slot-Loaded Patch for 1.5 GHz and 2.6 GHz

• Dual-band CP Stacked Patch for 1.2 GHz and 1.5 GHz

• L-shaped Circularly Polarized Monopole Slot Antenna for 1.6 GHz

• Probe-fed Circular Polarized Loop Antenna with Parasitic Loop

• Single-Fed Circular Polarized Stacked Patch for 7 GHz to 10 GHz

References:

1. Microstrip Antenna Design Handbook - Garg, Bhartia, Bahl, Ittipiboon
2. Antenna Theory and Microstrip Antennas - Fang
3. CAD of Microstrip Antennas for Wireless Applications - Sainati
4. Microstrip and Printed Antennas - Guha, Antar
5. Microstrip Antennas - Nasimuddin
6. Advances in Microstrip and Printed Antennas - Lee
7. Broadband Microstrip Antennas - Kumar, Ray
8. Microstrip Antenna, Theory and Design - James, Hall, Wood

9. Printed Antennas for Wireless Communications - Waterhouse

10. Analysis and Design of Integrated Circuit– Antenna Modules - Gupta, Hall

11. Advancement in Microstrip Antennas with Recent Applications - Kishk

12. Planar Antennas for Wireless Communications - Wong

13. Circularly Polarized Antennas - Gao, Luo, Zhu
14. Microwave Journal Magazine - 1996 - 2013
15. Microwaves & RF Magazine - 1999 - 2013

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