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First Review
Major Project Winter Semester-2024-25
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
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Content
• Zeroth Review comments and Response
• Literature survey
• Proposed Methodology/Algorithm/Model
• Design/Implementation & Description
• Results and Discussion
• Work to be Carried-out
• References
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Zeroth Review comments and Response
• Issues concerning satellite antennas
• Advantages of AMC-based antenna and their applications
• Objective:
• To design and simulate an artificial magnetic conductor-
based printed antenna at Ku-band for satellite systems
• To Model and optimize the antenna using HFSS software
• To verify the antenna performance(BW, Gain and
Directivity)
• To develop a Prototype and validate the design
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Literature survey
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with Year
Study Inference
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Proposed Antenna Configuration
The conventional antenna consists of a square patch of
size wa, loaded with a circular slot of radius, ra, and
rectangular stubs at the sides of the patch whose length
and width are characterized as ls1 and ws1.
The antenna is designed to resonate at 16.5 GHz in the
Ku band. FR4 material with a thickness of 1.6 mm and
permittivity of 4.4 is used as a substrate.
A coaxial probe feed feeds the antenna; the location of
the feed is optimized at (0mm, 3 mm) to achieve
impedance matching.
The antenna dimensions are (in mm): wa=10, ra=2.5,
ls1=4, and ws1=0.5.
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Design equations
Width of the patch
length of the patch
Effective length of the patch
Effective permittivity of the substrate
Differential length
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Simulation Results
It is obvious that the antenna exhibits an
impedance bandwidth (IBW) of 1.16 GHz
between 15.8917.05 GHz.
The 3D polar plot gain depicts that the
antenna has a peak gain of 5.18 dB at the
operating frequency of 16.5 GHz.
Reflection coefficient
3D polar plot
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AMC unit cell design
• To realize wide bandwidth and high gain, two different AMC structures named as AMC1 and AMC2 are
arranged in a checkerboard fashion
AMC-1
AMC-2
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Reflection phase behaviour od the AMCs
It can be seen that the AMC1 shows a single
00
reflection phase at 15.98 GHz, and AMC2
exhibits dual behavior at 14.57 and 18.90
GHz, respectively.
The phase difference plot depicts a reflection
phase bandwidth of 3.59 GHz (14.1317.72
GHz) within (1800
±300
) implying wide
bandwidth behavior of the AMCs.
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Proposed antenna with AMCs
parameters Value
(mm)
parameters Value
(mm)
wa 10 l1 1.8
ls1 0.5 w1 0.5
ws1 4 w2 8
ra 2.5 ws 6.8
r1 3 ls 6.8
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As can be observed, the proposed antenna with AMC
tiles shows an impedance bandwidth of 2.56 GHz
(14.817.4 GHz), which is about 1.4 GHz larger than the
antenna without AMC (15.8917.05 GHz).
The results also show that the AMC-based antenna has
two resonant peaks due to the coupling between the
patch antenna and AMC tiles.
o It is revealed that the gain of the AMC-based
antenna is increased greatly compared to the basic
antenna in the whole band of operation.
o The proposed antenna exhibited a peak gain of 7.6
dB and an average gain of 5.78 dB in the
frequency range of 14.817.4 GHz.
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Work to be Carried-out
• Fabrication of the proto type and measurement
• Validation of the proposed design
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Conference communication proof
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References
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