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Abstract

This paper proposes a microstrip-fed simple square slot patch antenna, which produces a triple band and is circularly polarized. The designed antenna consists of an L-shaped patch radiator in which the lower part of L is modified to a circle instead of a rectangle, and two rectangular strips are inserted from the opposite corners of the ground plane. Two small rectangular slits have also been used in the design to generate the triple band and widen the bandwidth too. The antenna has been fabricated and measured and it shows a good agreement between them. The measured impedance bandwidths (IBWs) are 44.06% (2.3-3.6 GHz) and 73.68% (4.8-10.4 GHz), and the axial ratio bandwidths (ARBWs) are 37.29% (2.4-3.5 GHz), 13.6% (4.8-5.5 GHz), and 32.35% (5.7-7.9 GHz) in the lower, middle and upper band respectively.

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Dr. Hirak Keshari Behera

Mr. Manas Midya

Dr. Laxmi Prasad Mishra