Butter fly shape compact microstrip antenna for wideband applications

In this article, a novel design of butterfly-shaped compact and small size microstrip antenna is proposed. The radiating structure consists of four circular discs in coalesced form and fed with coaxial probe. The initial antenna resonates at 9.64 GHz with impedance bandwidth of 11.41%. The resonance frequency is further reduced to 8.12 GHz with bandwidth 10.10%, when a rectangular slot is incorporated in the initial patch. Finally, two parallel slots are embedded in the initial patch which improves the antenna bandwidth up to 21.50% (6.02–7.47 GHz). The gain and efficiency of this antenna are above 8.80 dBi and 90% respectively across the entire operating band. Radiation pattern is calculated at lower end (6.02 GHz), upper end (7.47 GHz) and centre frequency (6.75 GHz) of operating band. The proposed antenna is fabricated, and measured results are validated with the simulated ones. © 2017, Electromagnetics Academy. All rights reserved.