Bandwidth Enhancement of a U-Slot Patch Antenna Using Embedded HIS Structure

This paper proposes a new generation of antenna that applies metamaterial as a base construction. With the use of dual band high impedance surface (HIS) structures, the bandwidth, return loss, and gain of U-slot patch antenna is improved at resonant frequencies 2.24 GHz and 5.8 GHz. The proposed new modified U-slot antenna has dual band impedance bandwidth from about 2.1886 to 2.27 GHz and 5.6149 to 7.2259 GHz. From the simulation result it was found that the upper frequency band of the proposed antenna lies in the band of $5.725 sim 5.825$ GHz regulated by IEEE 802.11a (upper band) and can be used for bluetooth and WLAN applications. We perform this analysis on structures which composed of rectangular lattice patches periodic arrangements. All the dimensions and shapes of the unit cell geometry are optimized in order to get a broad bandwidth and high return loss. The lattice structure comprises of an array of $7 imes 5$ rectangular patches embedded in the substrate.