Miniature wideband 1×2 micro-strip antenna for 4G application

In this paper a 1×2 miniature wide-band rectangular patch antenna is proposed. The antenna is designed for the IEEE 802.16a (5GHz to 6GHz) and 802.16b (2GHz to 11GHz) frequency band. The miniaturization of antenna has been achieved by monopole configuration and implementation of Electronic Band-gap Structure (EBGs) in between the two identical antennas. To achieve the wide-band response a partial ground plane is loaded at the feeding point of micro-strip feed. The −10dB impedance bandwidth of antenna is 66% with center frequency 6 GHz. The size reduction of the antenna is more than 83%. Proposed antenna is simulated using HFSS-13 and measured results are compared with simulated results.