Design of a Wide Slot Antenna for Bandwidth Enhancement for Wireless Communication Application
Manish Kumar Rajput1, Divyanshu Prabhav2, Chitransh Karade3

1Manish Kumar Rajput, Bachelor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Takshshila Institute of Engineering and Technology Jabalpur (M.P), India.
2Divyanshu Prabhav, Bachelor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Takshshila Institute of Engineering and Technology Jabalpur (M.P), India.
3Chitransh Karade, Bachelor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Takshshila Institute of Engineering and Technology Jabalpur (M.P), India.
Manuscript received on 12 March 2013 | Revised Manuscript received on 21 March 2013 | Manuscript Published on 30 March 2013 | PP: 158-161 | Volume-2 Issue-4, March 2013 | Retrieval Number: D0570032413/13©BEIESP
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Abstract: In this paper we are proposing a brief description about Microstrip printed wide slot antenna with a fork like tuning stub for bandwidth enhancement. By applying fork like tuning stub to the microstrip wide slot antenna instead of line feed, it is experimentally found that operating bandwidth can be enhanced. Experimental results indicate that the impedance bandwidth, defined by -10Db return loss, of the proposed wide slot antenna can reach operating bandwidth of 3.1 GHz at operating frequency about 2GHz which is 6 times greater than conventional wide slot antenna. A comprehensive parametric study has been carried out to understand the effects of various dimensional parameters and to optimize the performance of the designed antenna.
Keywords: Fork Like Tuning Stub, Bandwidth Enhancement, Wide-Slot Antenna.

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