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Edge-fed Rectangular Microstrip Patch Antenna

An example of how a rectangular microstrip patch may be fed at an edge.

This example models the rectangular microstrip patch antenna that was analysed by Wu et al [1].  It consists of a simple rectangular microstrip antenna with the reference plane for the feed define on the edge of the patch itself.  The is model is presented in Figure 1.  Figure 1 also depicts how the rectangular patch was divided into subelements to facilitate the placement of a stripline feed element at the proper reference plane for the simulation.  S11 was computed for this configuration over a wide frequency band.  Figure 2 presents the results for this computation which compare well with the published results [1, Figure 2].

Figure 1:  Edge-fed rectangular antenna geometry
Simulation model
Edge-fed model geometry Edge-fed model geometry - MESHED
Substrate:  εr = 2.2, height = 0.794 mm.


Figure 2:  S11 for edge-fed microstrip antenna
Edge-fed reflection coeffisient - Smith chart (small)

[1] S. C. Wu, N. G. Alexopoulos, and O. Fordham, “Feeding structure contribution to radiation by patch antennas with rectangular boundaries,” IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 40, pp. 1245–1249, Oct. 1992.