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COMPACT CIRCULAR MICROSTRIP

ANTENNA WITH EMBEDDED CHIP RESISTOR
AND CAPACITOR.
Katherine Jácome, Angel Toapanta, Jahid Buenaño
kathyjc@gmail.com,santiago@hotmail.com, jahitbm@gmail.com
Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo
Riobamba, Ecuador

Abstract—This paper present a COMPACT CIRCULAR MI-
CROSTRIP ANTENNA, the software ANSOFT DESIGNER was
used for the antenna design, the circular patch has a radius
of d and is printed on a substrate of thickness h and relative
permittivity E,. The chip resistor has a rectangular cross section
of 2.07 nun x 1.27 nun and is soldered to the ground plane
at (xR,yR), where there is a circular hole drilled through the
substrate large enough for the insertion of the chip resistor. On
the other hand, the chip capacitor has a cross section of 2.0 mm
x 1.28 nun and is loaded at (xc,yc), The probe feed is at (x,,y,)
and has a circular cross section of radius 0.63 mm.
applied to microstrip antennas of various patch shapes such
as rectangular, circular, and triangular patches. we present in
this paper the studies for a circular microstrip patch antenna.
The effects of loading the chip resistor and chip capacitor
on the circular microstrip patch antenna will be analyzed
experimentally. The optimal loading position he chip resistor
and chip capacitor in the circular microstrip patch will also be
discussed.

I. INTRODUCTION
Thas been reported that, by loading a shorting pin at the
I edge of a microstrip patch. The antenna size for operat-
ing at a fixed frequency can significantly reduced. However,
such short-circuited patch antennas also result in a narrower
bandwidth. as compared to the conventional microstrip patch
antenna. To overcome this disadvantage, we present in this
paper a new configuration of the compact microstrip antenna
with chip-resistor and chip capacitor loadings. When the
microstrip patch is loaded with a chip resistor, it is found
that the compactness of the microstrip patch antenna can still
be achieved. That is the reduction in the resonant frequency
of the microstrip patch is similar for using either the shorting-
pin or chip-resistor loading technique. Moreover, since the
microstrip patch antenna is a resonant structure and, when
at resonance, it can roughly be modeled as a parallel RLC
lumped-element equivalent circuit, it is expected that, with the
loading of an external chip resistor, the quality Factor of the
microstrip patch will be decreased. That is, a wider antenna
bandwidth can be achieved by using a chip-resistor loading.
Also, since it is known that the resonant frequency of the
equivalent RLC circuit will be decreased when an external
capacitor is loaded in parallel with the circuit, it is expected
that the chip-resistor and chip-capacitor loadings will have
constructive effects in lowering the resonant frequency of the
microstrip patch. To verify such predictions, the respective
effects of the chip-resistor loading and chip-capacitot loading
on the characteristics of a microstrip patch antenna will first
be studied. Although the present loading technique can be
II. IMPLEMENTATION
A. DESIGN OF ANTENNA
In the figure shows the configuration of a circular microstrip
patch antenna with chipresistor and chip-capacitor loadings.
The circular patch has a radius of d and is printed on a
substrate of thickness h and relative permittivity E,. The chip
resistor has a rectangular cross section of 2.07 nun x 1.27 nun
and is soldered to the ground plane at (xR,yR), where there
is a circular hole drilled through the substrate large enough
for the insertion of the chip resistor. On the other hand, the
chip capacitor has a cross section of 2.0 mm x 1.28 nun and
is loaded at (xc,yc), The probe feed is at (x,,y,) and has a
circular cross section of radius 0.63 mm. The spacing angle
between the chip resistor and the chip capacitor is denoted as
e, It is fist noted that, since the excited electric field under the
circular patch at the fundamental TMI I mode has máximum
value around the patch edge. both the chip resistor and chip
capacitor in the following studies are all placed at the patch
edge for maximum effects in the resonant-frequency reduction
of the circular microstrip patch.

Fig. 1: Geometry of a circular microstrip antenna with capac-
itor loadings. chip-resistor and chip.
B. FREQUENCY
A simple technique for archieving this has been to load
the radiating patch with a slot inside the radiating patch. The
frequency operation is achieved when the slots perturb the
fundamental resonant frequency of the patch exciting a new
resonance mode. The dimensions of antenna is according to
frequency to 2.4 Ghz .
C. DIMENSION OF THE ANTENNA
The TABLE I shows the dimensions for the slot and for
each of the segments antenna.
NAME LENGHT(mm)
Radio 17.98
Port 3.41 , 4.91
TABLE I: DIMENSION OF THE CIRCULAR ANTENNA.
III. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ANTENNA
Simulation In Fig 2. It is shown the antenna design to be
implemnted, the same as was done in the software Ansoft
Designer Version
Fig. 2: Design in Ansoft Designer
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In the Fig 3 shows the cutoff frequency of 2.4 Ghz
with a bandwidth of 55 MHz with a gain of -40 dB.
Fig. 3: Gain of antenna
In Fig 4 it is shown the radiation pattern in 2D, in which it
can be seen that the antenna is bidirectional.
Fig. 4: Radiation Pattern
IV. CONCLUSIONS
• For these antennas we will use software to help us with
the investigation, to provide us with the appropriate data
and take it to the elaboration stage.
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