Meandered Shaped Microstrip feed Antenna for Ku-Band Applications

Abstract

In this paper, a hexagonal shaped meta-material loaded antenna is proposed for Ku-band applications and fed by meandered shaped microstrip and a dimension is 12.37mm x 21.4mm x 1.6mm.  The shape of the patch is etched in the top side and substrate used is FR-4, a dielectric constant of 4.4 with a thickness of 1.6mm. this antenna will resonates three frequencies those are 12.36GHz, 14.696GHz,15.33GHz and their reflection coefficient values are -26.371dB, -14.837dB, -16.918dB.  The generalized parameters of an antenna those are reflection coefficient, VSWR (Voltage Standing Wave Ratio), gain, efficiencies and surface current is reported.