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Abstract

This paper presents a stacked rectangular dielectric resonator antenna design. In this structure, two sapphires having the same dielectric constant and different dimensions piled over each other have been used for designing the proposed antenna. The designed antenna exhibits two frequency bands from 7.41 GHz to 8.21 GHz and 9.11 GHz to 12.65 GHz and impedance matching of 50 ohms. The proposed antenna design is a fine choice for subterranean and rugged communication, in addition, owing to sapphires unique features viz. durability, endurance, and aversion to physical change. The antenna structure is aperture coupled. Due to the advantage of aperture coupled feed mechanism such as good isolation between antennas and feed networks it has been employed. The antenna prototype has been fabricated, measured, and tested using Vector Network Analyzer and Anechoic Chamber to validate the proposed antenna design. The simulation results obtained indicate close proximity of tested result.

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Dr. Garima Bakshi

Dr. Arti Vaish

Prof. Rajveer Singh Yaduvanshi