Maximizing Microstrip Patch Antenna Efficiency

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Maximizing Microstrip Patch Antenna Efficiency

• By Pallav PathakMentor Siwen Yong

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MOTIVATION

• ECE 110 Honors Paper and Presentation
• Professor M.C. Brunet
• Topic Wireless Communication Systems

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WHAT IS AN ANTENNA?

• Category Transducers
• Definition
• Other Examples

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WHAT IS A MICROSTRIP PATCH ANTENNA?

• What does a Patch Antenna look like?
• The Patch is the printed metallic plate on top.
  

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HOW DOES IT BEHAVE LIKE AN ANTENNA?
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WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES?

• Size and Profile

• Low Cost

• Ease of Integration

• Very Light-Weight

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APPLICATIONS
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EFFICIENCY DEPENDENCE

• Radiation Efficiency
• (?radiation )
• Surface Wave Loss
• Dielectric Loss
• Conductor Loss
• Mismatch Efficiency (?mismatch)
• ?total ?radiation x ?mismatch

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SIMULATION
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WHAT AM I WORKING ON?

• Programming in MATLAB.
• Using MATLAB to replicate the HFSS simulation.

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THANK YOU!

• Siwen Yong!
• Professor J. Bernhard!
• PURE!