LIST OF FIGURES:

figure 1: An edgefed patch antenna figure 2: Rectangular microstrip patch antenna figure 3: Common shapes of the microstrip patch antennas which are commonly in use figure 4: Structure of microstrip patch antenna figure 5: Configuration of a microstrip and printed dipoles, proximitycoupled strip dipole figure 6: Symmetrical folded printed dipoles figure 7: (a) Rectangular slot with microstrip feed (b) annular slot with microstrip feed (c) tapered slot figure 8: A type of microstrip feed and the corresponding equivalent ckts, microstrip feed at a radiating edge figure 9: Gap coupled microstrip feed figure 10: Representation of h1an at the interface between the patch antenna and the feed microstrip line by an equivalent current densit jz dotted lines signify h lines, solid lines are current lines figure 11: Probe figure 12: Aperturecouple feed technique general view figure 13: Proximity coupled feed technique figure 14: Proximity coupled microstrip feed

List of tables:
Table 1: Characteristics of Micro strip Patch Antennas Table 2 : Comparision of Different Feed Techniques and characteristics

CONTENTS: Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Merits and demerits of Microstrip antennas 1.1.1 1.1.2 Chapter 2 THEORY OF MICROSTRIP PATCH ANTENNAS 2.1 Types of Microstrip antennas 2.1.1 Microstrip Patch Antennas 2.1.2 Microstrip or Printed Dipole Antennas 2.1.3 Printed Slot Antennas 2.1.4 Microstrip Travelling Wave Antennas 2.2 Feed Techniques and Modeling of Microstrip Antennas 2.2.1 Microstrip Line feed. 2.2.2 Co Axial Feed Technique 2.2.3 Aperture Couple Feed Technique 2.2.4 Proximity Coupled Microstrip Feed 2.3.1 Radiation Fields 2.3.2 Microstrip Antenna Calculations 2.4 Patch Antenna Materials 2.5 Overview of the Antenna Parameters 2.5.1 Return Loss 2.5.2 Radiation Pattern 2.5.3 Gain & Directivity 2.5.4 Polarization 2.5.6 Voltage Standing Wave Ratio Merits Demerits

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2.3 Radiation Fields and Microstrip Antenna Characteristics calculations

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2.5.7 Input Impedance 2.5.8 Bandwidth CHAPTER 3

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DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF RECTANGULAR APERTURE CIRCULAR PATCH ARRAY ANTENNA IN X BAND 3.1 Flowchart 31 32 32 32 32 32 33 34 35 36

3.1.1 Introduction 3.2 METHODOLOGY 3.2.1 Rectangular aperture Circular patch Array 3.2.2 Circular patch 3.3 Expression for ANTENNA PARAMETERS 3.3.1 Feeding Point 3.3.2 Resonant Frequency and Effective Radius of patch 3.3.3 Radiated power 3.4 Array of Circular patches CHAPTER 4 4.1 Starting Ansoft HFSS 4.2 Ansoft Desktop 4.3 Insert an HFSS design into a project. 4.4 Selecting the Solution Type 4.4.1 Setting the Models Units of Measurement 4.5 Drawing a Model 4.6 Assigning Materials 4.7 Assigning Boundaries 4.9 Assigning Excitations 4.10 Solution Setup 4.11 Running a Simulation

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4.12 To view E and H field patterns CHAPTER 5 RESULTS 5.1Circular patch array (2x2) 5.2 Design diagram of circular patch 5.3 Return loss 5.4 Input impedence 5.5 2D Gain 5.6 VSWR 5.7 3D Gain 5.7.1 Gain Total 5.7.2 Gain Theta 5.7.2 Gain Phi 5.8 Mesh 5.9 Field Diagrams 5.9.1 E-Field 5.9.2 H-Field 6 .APPLICATIONS 7. CONCLUSION FUTURE SCOPE BIBLIOGRAPHY

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