Active and Passive Electronic Components
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 693263, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/693263
Research Article

A Compact Wideband Stacked Antenna for the Tri-Band GPS Applications

Maher M. Abd Elrazzak1 and M. F. Alsharekh2

1Communication and Electronics Department, Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
2Communication Department, College of Telecom and Information (CTI), Riyadh 11622, Saudi Arabia

Received 6 April 2008; Revised 13 July 2008; Accepted 8 September 2008

Academic Editor: Ashok Goel

Copyright © 2008 Maher M. Abd Elrazzak and M. F. Alsharekh. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

A compact wideband stacked patch antenna is presented for the applications of GPS systems. This antenna covers the L1, L2, and L5 GPS bands of operating frequencies 1.575, 1.227, and 1.176 GHz, respectively. High permittivity dielectric materials are used to minimize the antenna dimensions. The obtained antenna is of dimensions 32×18×2.117 mm. To verify the design, the time dependence field distribution, the scattering parameters, and the radiation pattern are presented. The scattering parameters show that the antenna operates at the GPS frequencies with lower than −10 dB. The finite difference time domain (FDTM) with the perfect matched layer (PML) is used in the present analysis.