Research Article

Effect of Ground Plane Deformation on Electrical Performance of Air Microstrip Antennas

Table 1

Physical parameters of air microstrip antenna.

ParametersValues ( at 2.45 GHz)

Patch length, (mm)55.6 (0.454 )
Patch width, (mm)61.2 (0.5 )
Ground plane length, (mm)100 (0.82 )
Ground plane width, (mm)120 (0.98 )
Air layer thickness, (mm)5 (0.041 )
Dielectric constant, 1.0006
Feeder position, (mm)14.2 (0.116 )
Deformation amplitude, (mm)1 (0.008 ), 1.5 (0.012 ), 2 (0.016 ), 2.5 (0.020 ), 3 (0.0245 ), 3.5 (0.0286 )