ABSTRACT

A probe-fed, slotted rectangular patch antenna has been proposed. Bandwidth enhancement has been achieved by suitably cutting slots into the rectangular patch, and efficiently exciting the slot by short circuiting the conducting patch through the dielectric substrate beyond the edge of the slot. Proposed antenna is suitable for various ground based and airborne applications in C-Band. It is demonstrated that the proposed antenna exhibits three resonances in C-Band and a peak gain of 7 dBi. The antenna structure is described and simulation results are presented.