Design of a High Performance Patch Antenna for GPS Communication Systems

This paper presents the design of a patch antenna for GPS portable devices. The antenna is designed to operate at L1 band on an FR4 PCB with a thickness of 1.6㎜, a dielectric constant of 3.8 and two metallization layers. The antenna has a dimension of 49㎜×36㎜ and operates at 1.5754㎓ with a return loss of |-36|㏈ and a measured bandwidth of 250㎒.