A survey on performance improvement techniques for microstrip antennas
Keywords:
Microstrip antennas, MTM, EBG, DGS, MIMO, Array antennaAbstract
Nowadays, microstrip antennas are widely utilized in different applications thanks to its benefits including easy fabrication with low cost, compact, light-weight as well as ease for integration. However, there are some limitations of microstrip antennas such as narrow bandwidth, low gain and efficiency. The improvement of microstrip antennas parameters is very necessary in order to enhance the quality of wireless communication systems and different techniques have been proposed. This paper presents a survey and analysis for some popular methods which concentrate on improvement for bandwidth, gain and mutual coupling for microstrip antennas including the results of our research.
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