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IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume 48 Number 8, August 2000

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Slotted Rectangular Microstrip Antenna for Bandwidth Enhancement

Jia-Yi Sze, Member, IEEE and Kin-Lu Wong Senior Member, IEEE

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Abstract:

With the loading of a pair of right-angle slots and a modified U-shaped slot in a rectangular microstrip patch, novel bandwidth enhancement of microstrip antennas is demonstrated. Required dimensions of the right-angle slots and modified U-shaped slot for bandwidth enhancement with good radiating characteristics have been determined experimentally in this study and the obtained antenna bandwidth can be as large as about 2.4 times that of a corresponding unslotted rectangular microstrip antenna. Details of the antenna design and experimental results are presented and discussed.

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