AbstractA ψ-shaped micro-strip patch antenna is designed on a square ground plane with an inverted E slot is presented. Ψ patch is just below an inverted E slot on square ground plane and it is fed with a co-axial probe. The effect of size and shape of the slot on the ground plane and on patch are varied and are proposed as antennas A to E . The proposed antenna design parameters are varied to maximize the impedance bandwidth and it is giving a maximum bandwidth of 29.7% (4.5Ghz 6Ghz) and a maximum gain of 5dBi. The proposed antenna is compared with square patch on square shaped ground plane results in 34% area reduction with improved bandwidth of 20%. All the proposed antennas are mainly compared with respect to Return loss, VSWR, Gain and Radiation efficiency. This antenna finds application in ‘C’ band and RFID. Index Terms—ψ slot Micro-strip patch antenna, Co-axial Probe feed, Single-Patch antenna, Inverted E slot, Square patch on square ground plane. I. INTRODUCTION Micro-strip patch antenna is more attracted because of its size, weight, profile and easier to fabricate. It finds location in wireless mobile communication and satellite communication. The main limitations of MPA are narrow bandwidth, low gain and low efficiency [1-2] etc.. There are many methods to improve the bandwidth like multi-layered configuration, stacked multi-resonator, planar multi-resonator configuration and modified shape patch. Among these modified shape method is easier one with respect to size and design [3-6]. A Compact Broadband or multiband MPA is needed for personal mobile communication and other applications.However, generating multi-bands and size reduction are challenging jobs for practical applications of micro-strip antenna i.e. improvement of one degrades other. Here we started with the design of square patch on square ground plane resonating at 11Ghz giving a very less bandwidth Anitha P 1 is Research Scholar with the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, JNTUA, Anantapuram, 515001,India. (e-mail: anitha.peram@gmail.com). A.S.R.Reddy 2 is with the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, G.K.College of Engineering, Sullurpet, 517641, India. M.N.Giri Prasad 3 is with the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, JNTUA, Anantapuram, 515001,India of 6%. Next we placed an inverted E slot on ground plane and square patch is modified to ψ patch is proposed using co-axial probe fed which is resonating at 6Ghz giving a maximum bandwidth of 29.7% (4.5Ghz 6Ghz) .The proposed antenna is sensitive to length, width and position of the slot, by varying these we designed five antennas giving a maximum gain of 5dBi with an area reduction of 34% compared to square patch antenna with square ground plane. II. DESIGN First a Rectangular patch antenna with a square ground plane is designed for a frequency of 10Ghz with the formulae below to calculate the length, width and position of feed of the micro-strip patch antenna[7]. 1. 2. 3. ∆L = 0.412 h 4. λg = , L = 5. G 1 = ( 6. Y in = 2 G 1 , Z in = 7. R in = Where y o is the feed point and R in =50Ω. A square patch with 10X10mm is placed above the 20X20mm square ground plane with h =1.6mm and εr = 2.4 and loss tangent tan δ =0.00022. Design of a Compact ψ-shaped Micro-strip Patch antenna on Modified Ground Planes Anitha P 1 , A.S R Reddy 2 , M.N Giri Prasad 3 2017 International Conference on Recent Advances in Electronics and Communication Technology 978-1-5090-6701-5/17 $31.00 © 2017 IEEE DOI 10.1109/ICRAECT.2017.60 96 2017 International Conference on Recent Advances in Electronics and Communication Technology 978-1-5090-6701-5/17 $31.00 © 2017 IEEE DOI 10.1109/ICRAECT.2017.60 96