Design and Analysis of Microstrip Antenna for CDMA Systems Communication

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Design and Analysis of Microstrip Antenna for CDMA Systems
Communication
Eng: Hassan Elesawy1
, Dr: W. Swelam2
, Dr: Abdal.Fouda3
, Prof. Dr. I. Hafez4
1(Electronics and Communication, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt)
2(Electronics and Communication, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo-Egypt)
3 (Communication, Faculty of Engineering, Modern Academy;
4 (Chairman of Electronics and Communication, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University , Cairo-Egypt)
Abstract: This paper proposes a newly designed microstrip patch antennas (MSA) for wireless application
(CDMA Systems). The designed single antenna E-shaped patch antenna. Two parallel slots are in corporated
into the patch of a microstrip antenna to expand it bandwidth, and designed antenna operates in the frequency
range of 1.85 to 1.99 GHz. The antenna is designed using air as a dielectric substrate between the ground plane
and substrate patch antenna. IE3D is a full-wave electromagnetic simulator based on the method of moments
(MoM) technique. It has been widely used in the design of MICs, RFICs, patch antennas, wire antennas, and
other RF/wireless antennas. It can be used to calculate and plot the S parameters, VSWR, current distributions
as well as the radiation patterns. The results obtained for each patch were 2D and 3D view of patch, Directivity,
Gain, beam width and other such parameters, true and mapped 3D radiation pattern, and 2D polar radiation
pattern. The antenna successfully achieves the exhibit a broad impedance bandwidth of 27 % (at VSWR < 2)
with respect to the center frequency of 1.9 GHz is designed, fabricated, and finally measured on Spectrum
analyzer. The radiation pattern and directivity are also presented.. Gain maximum achievable is 3 dBi and good
return loss (S11 parameters) of -30 dB is achieved along with broadside radiation pattern.
Keywords - Microstrip Patch Antenna; E-shaped, CDMA systems communications; Coaxial Probe feed, IE3D.
I. Introduction
Due to the rapid progress in various wireless communication systems, more researches are required to
develop antennas with reduced size and enhanced frequency bandwidth to meet the miniaturization requirements
of mobile systems such as mobile cellular, mobile cordless. Each wireless communication standard will require
an antenna that resonates at its frequency of operation. With multiple standards and services, one could easily
imagine a multitude of antennas required both at the base station site, and also on the mobile device. One of
types of wireless communication at 1.9 GHz is Wireless fidelity CDMA systems, personal communication
system (PCS) and other next-generation wireless systems. One of the key components interfacing between the
CDMA system hardware and the „Ether‟, i.e. the air-interface for wireless communication is the antenna. With
tremendous growth and demand for high speed high data rate wireless communication, more and more antennas,
and antennas covering a multitude of frequency bands are required.
Antennas play a very important role in the field of wireless communications. Some of them are
parabolic reflectors, patch antennas, slot antennas and folded dipole antennas. Each type of antenna is good in its
own properties and usage. We can say antennas are the backbone and almost everything in the wireless
communication without which the word could have not reached at this age of technology. It is well known that
MSA are attractive and popular due to their natural advantages such as small size, low weight and low cost of
production. Possible techniques for increasing its frequency bandwidth have received much attention. In addition
to the common techniques of increasing patch height and decreasing substrate permittivity, a popular method
which is the use of parasitic patches [1]. Patch antennas play a very significant role in today's world of wireless
communication systems. Another way to increase the bandwidth of an MSA is to decrease the dielectric constant
of the substrate [2]. This paper presents an E-shaped antenna for mobile base station using microstrip antenna
(MSA) covered. The advantages of this proposed antenna are light weight, easy fabrication and installation, and
moderately high gain compare to the other antennas in the cellular phone system at present. Moreover, it
provides a Broadside-shaped radiation pattern and wider in the horizontal direction.
In this paper, we present a novel single-patch wide-band microstrip antenna: the E-shaped patch
antenna. When two parallel slots are incorporated into the antenna patch, the E-shaped patch antenna is simpler
in construction. By only adjusting the length, width, and position of the slots, one can obtain satisfactory
performances. Some experimental results prove the validity of this design. The method of moments with the
vector triangular basis function [3] is used for analysis, as well as IE3D software. The electric currents on the E-
shaped patch are calculated and graphically presented to explain the wide-band mechanism. Subsequently, a
wide-band E-shaped patch antenna with 27 % bandwidth is designed to cover 1.85-1.99 GHz frequency. This

Design and Analysis of Microstrip Antenna for CDMA systems Communication
range of frequency is very desirable in modern wireless communications. Radiation patterns are also measured
and compared with the numerical data. However, this has detrimental effects on antenna size reduction since the
resonant length of an MSA is shorter for higher substrate dielectric constant. In addition, the directivity of the
MSA depends on the dielectric constant of the substrate. The next section describes the antenna design and the
idea of operation. Section 3 covers the simulation process and results analysis. Section 4 shows the conclusion.
Show the Reference is final section.
II. Antenna Design
The software part of our design antenna around determination of the surface current distribution and
return loss curve (S11vs frequency) of several simple rectangular patch antennas. From the transmission line
model of rectangular patch antennas it is clear that the three essential parameters for the design of a rectangular
Microstrip Patch Antenna are as follows: Frequency of operation (f0 =1.9 GHz). Dielectric constant of the
substrate (εr = 2.2) and height of dielectric substrate thickness (h =1.5748mm).
Design Procedure [3]
The geometry of proposed antenna is shown in Figure (1). The design consists of rectangular Microstrip
Patch Antenna with etched E- shape on it. Calculating the wavelength (λ), because the light speed C = 3x108
and 𝑓0 = 1.9 GHz, So λ = C /𝑓0, we get λ=0.157m =157mm. The E-shaped rectangular patch antenna was
fabricated, simulated using Zealand IED3 simulator. The basic geometry of the E-shaped antenna element is
shown in Fig.1. The rectangular patch, with width W and length L is supported by a low dielectric superstrate
with dielectric permittivity ϵ1 and thickness h1, an air-filled substrate with dielectric permittivity ϵ0 = 1 and
thickness h0 = 15mm is sandwiched between the superstrate and a ground plane. The proposed patch integrates
the E-shaped patch that adjusting the length ɭ , width w1, and positions dp of the slots one can obtain satisfactory
performance and control the bandwidth. By properly adjusting the parameters of slots and the position of the
feeding point, a 27 % antenna bandwidth is achieved. An elegant approach for the parameter selection would be
the utilization of modern genetic algorithms [4]..
The computer simulation of the proposed linear array antenna was performed using MATLAB [5] and
the calculated parameters are shown in Table1[4,5]. The calculations used are described below. Since the two
basic factors influencing the performance of the linear array antenna, i.e., the inter-element spacing and the
number of elements in an array are fixed in our analysis. We properly selected the size of the patches and the
position of the feeding point. The initial dimensions L, W of the E-shaped patch antenna can be determined
using the following equations, which are valid for the rectangular patch antenna [4,5]:
The width of the Microstrip patch antenna is given as: w = c (2 f° εr + 1 / 2) = 62.4 mm (1)
The effective length is: Leff = C (2 f° εreff ) = 52.23 mm ;
The length extension is:
△ L = (0.412 h) εreff + 0.3 ∗ (W h) + 0.264 εreff − 0.258 ∗ (W h) + 0.8
The actual length is obtained by: L = Leff − 2 △ L = 50.6 mm (2)
Calculation of the ground plane dimensions (Lg and Wg):
The transmission line model is applicable to infinite ground planes only. However, for practical
considerations, it is essential to have a finite ground plane. It has been shown by [6] that similar results for finite
and infinite ground plane can be obtained if the size of the ground plane is greater than the patch dimensions by
approximately six times the substrate thickness all around the periphery. Hence, for this design, the ground plane
dimensions would be given as:
𝐿 𝑔 = 6 𝑕 + 𝐿 = 6 1.5748 + 50.6 = 59.6 ≈ 60 𝑚𝑚
𝑤 𝑔 = 6 𝑕 + 𝑤 = 6 1.5748 + 62.4 = 71.8 ≈ 72 𝑚𝑚
This design employs contemporary techniques namely, the coaxial probe feeding , patch, and slotted patch
techniques to meet the design requirement. The use of probe feeding technique with a thick air-filled substrate
provides the bandwidth enhancement, while the application of substrate with radiating patch offers a gain
enhancement, and the use of parallel slots also reduce the size of the patch [3,7].
The proposed patch integrates with slot on the same radiating element are embedded in parallel on the
radiating edge of the patch symmetrically with respect to the centerline of the patch.

Table 1: Optimize Parameters for E-Shaped Patch Antenna.
Superstrate RT 5880 (εr =2.2, h =1.5748mm)
Substrate Air Air (ε0 =1, h0 =15 mm)
Rectangular patch Width and Length, {W, L} = {62.4, 50.6} mm
Feed Position dp= 2.8 mm from bottom edge along y axis (centre line of the patch), hole = 0.7mm
Slots parameters {ɭ , w2, w1 } = {44.5, 8, 9} mm
An Aluminum plate with dimensions of 60 x 72 x1 mm and thickness of 1 mm is used as a ground plane.
III. Simulation Process And Results Analysis
In this paper we have Simulation and Fabricated in systematic way and finally measured on Spectrum
analyzer. The proposed antenna element is analyzed using the full-wave MoM technique with the aid of the
zeland-IE3D full-wave electromagnetic simulator [8]. To calculate return loss, VSWR, impedance bandwidth,
Current distribution, antenna efficiency and gains. Fig. (2) Shows the simulated return loss (S11) parameter is
better than -10dB within the frequency range of (1.83-1.99) GHz, which means 27% band-width enhancement.
Fig. (3) shows the simulated result of the VSWR of the proposed antenna. The minimum value of VSWR should
be less than 2 (VSWR≤2) for desirable communication is about 1.83 -2 GHz. The closely excited resonant
frequencies at 1.9 GHz as shown in the figure gives the measure of the characteristic of the patch antenna. Fig.
(4) Shows the simulated gain of the proposed patch antenna at various frequencies is shown in the figure, the
maximum achievable gain is 3 dBi at the frequency of 1.9 GHz and the gain variation is 1dBi between the
frequency ranges of 1.85 GHz to 1.99 GHz. Fig.(5) Shows the simulated Radiation Pattern Plot. Fig. (6) Shows
that the surface current distribution, including the current flow on slotted area of the patch. Due to identical
manner of current flow on the antenna, only current distribution on the resonant frequency is depicted in the
figure. Arrows show the direction of the current distribution. It can be observed from the figure that the current
intensely flows at the edge of the slots especially near the feeding probe of the patch. However, the current is
uniformly distributed elsewhere. Fig.(7) Shows that the simulated radiation efficiency and antenna efficiency of
the proposed antenna at (1.83 - 2) GHz. The radiation pattern efficiency displays good broadside radiation
patterns is 65 % at most of frequency band. The proposed patch antenna efficiency is 60% at most of frequency
band.
IV. Conclusion
A new E shaped patch for enhancing bandwidth of microstrip patch antenna is successfully designed
in this paper. By employing proposed slotted patch shaped design and coaxial probe feeding techniques, an
impedance bandwidth of 27% is achieved in this design with respect to the centre frequency of 1.9 GHz. In
addition, good antenna gain and radiation characteristics have also been obtained. The proposed microstrip patch
antenna achieves a fractional bandwidth of 27% (1.83 - 2) GHz at 10 dB return loss covering the CDMA
systems band. The maximum achievable gain of the antenna is 3dBi with gain variation of 1.3 dBi.
The developed element can be used in mobile communication systems (CDMA system (PCS)) with
stable manner. The proposed element is designed and simulated using the method of moment (MoM)
technique with the aid of the zeland-IE3D full-wave electromagnetic simulator. The radiation pattern shows the
broad-side E-shape that is suitable for such systems with gain value that exceeds 3 dBi at 1 . 9 GHz.
Better radiation performance is achieved by embedding slot onto the patch (E-shaped) while the use of patch
improves the gain of the antenna. The composite effect of integrating these techniques offers a low profile,
broadband, high gain, and compact antenna element suitable for array applications.
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Fig. 2: The return loss S11 parameter.
E-shape microstrip patch antenna
Fig. 3: Simulated VSWR of the proposed patch
antenna is 1.25 at f =1.9GHz.
Fig. 4: 2D view the radiation pattern,
at Gain = 3; 2 dBi at f = 1.9 GHz;
Fig. 5: 3D view of radiation pattern looking along Z
axis in the X-Y Plane.
Fig.1: Geometry of E-shaped MSA,
(a) Top view
Fig.1. (b) Side view Fig.1. (c) Developed for
fabrications.
0
h1
RTD 5880
Substrate
RTD

Fig..6. Simulated current distributions on the E-shaped
patch of antenna at 1.9GHz.
Fig. 7. Simulated the total antenna efficiency and
radiation efficiency.

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