Dual‐band N‐shaped patch antenna loaded by lumped elements

This article presents a dual-band circular N-shaped microstrip patch antenna loaded by a shorting pin and lumped R-C circuit, hence a resonant R-L-C circuit is introduced. Loading by shorting pin excites the zero fundamental mode of the circular patch antenna (TM010), and it shifts the first fundamental mode (TM110) to higher one. N-shaped microstrip patch antenna is used as a modified circular microstrip patch antenna with reduced size. The proposed antenna is designed and fabricated on two-layered substrate. A comprehensive parametric study has been carried out on values of R and C to optimize the antenna performance. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 51: 2534–2537, 2009; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.24673