%0 Journal Article %T Compact and Broadband Monopole Triangular Microstrip Patch Antenna with Shorting Pin %A Mr. Avisankar Roy %A Dr. P. P. Sarkar %A Dr. Sunandan Bhunia %J International Journal of Soft Computing & Engineering %D 2013 %I International Journal of Soft Computing & Engineering %X A monopole triangular shaped, broadband, compact microstrip patch antenna with shorting pin is presented in this paper. By defecting the ground plane bandwidth of 38.7% with respect to center frequency of a Microstrip patch antenna has been achieved which can be used for WLAN application. 82.4% size reduction has also been achieved by using shorting pin of a microstrip patch antenna with inset feed. The simulation is done by using the Method of Moment based commercially available standard software. %K Microstrip antenna %K shorting pin %K compact %K broad band %K defected ground %U http://www.ijsce.org/attachments/File/v2i6/IJSCE_NCACD_14.pdf