Design and Investigation of H-Shaped Patch Antenna Integrated with Light Emitting Diodes

Abstract:

The limitations in the applications of microstrip antenna lead to wastage in the form of space and functionality. In order to overcome the wastage of space and functionality of the microstrip antenna, the new idea is to make one single device of microstrip antenna which has two application at the same time where it can operates as antenna and the function as lighting source is proposed. Light Emitting Diode (LED) has been chosen as the light source since the characteristic and the structure of the LED are suitable for the integration process. Hence, this paper presents an investigation on the characteristic of an H-shaped patch antenna integrated with Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs). The proposed integrated antenna has been designed and simulated by using Computer Simulation Technology (CST) Microwave Studio Software. It has been fabricated and measured to investigate the performance of the antenna in terms of return loss. The results confirms that the antenna can operate at 2.4 GHz and it works well as an illumination.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 781)
• Pages: 106-109
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.781.106
• Online since: August 2015
• Authors: S.N. Kamarudin*, M.T. Ali, S. Subahir, A.A. Azlan, S. Muhamud-Kayat, Muhammad Ramlee Kamarudin
• Keywords: Antenna, CST, Integration, Light Emitting Diode (LED), Return Loss

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