Abstract— The shorter wavelength of L-band compared to UHF permit users to adopt smaller and more cost effective antenna. A smaller size microstrip antenna is particularly attractive for military use due to greater mobility and ease of camouflage. This paper presents a dual-band circular patch microstrip antenna for L-band military applications. The proposed antenna produced a bandwidth of 1.62 - 1.7GHz and 2.74 - 2.8GHz. The simulated results are calculated by using lE3D software and MATLAB programming. Further, for the future work, analogous to dielectric relaxation consideration of Cole-Cole diagrams as applied to dielectric materials, a “reactive relaxation concept” will be introduced to present the frequency-dependent characteristics of the circular microstrip antenna.
Index Terms— Microstrip, antenna, dual-band, L-band, military.
The authors are with National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission Bangkok, Thailand. (e-mail: settapong.m@nbtc.go.th, noppadol.t@nbtc.go.th, nattakit.s@nbtc.go.th)
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Cite: Settapong Malisuwan, Noppadol Tiamnara, and Nattakit Suriyakrai, "Design of Dual-band Circular Microstrip Patch Antenna for L-band Military Applications," International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 16-20, 2016.