%0 Journal Article
%T Gap-Coupling: A Potential Method for Enhancing the Bandwidth of Microstrip Antennas
%A P. Kumar
%A G. Singh
%J Advanced Computational Techniques in Electromagnetics
%D 2012
%I International scientific publication and consulting services (ISPACS)
%R 10.5899/2012/acte-00110
%X In this paper, a technical review on gap-coupled microstrip antennas is presented. The gap-coupled microstrip antennas give a large bandwidth as compared to the conventional microstrip antennas. The method of bandwidth enhancement using gap-coupled microstrip antennas has been elaborated. The gap-coupled microstrip antennas also produce two resonances. The dual frequency operation of the gap-coupled microstrip antenna is also described. A research overview of gap-coupled microstrip antennas, challenges, types of gap-coupled microstrip antennas as well as numerical methods of calculating various parameters of the gap-coupled microstrip antennas are discussed in this paper.
%K Gap-coupling
%K Dual frequency
%K Bandwidth enhancement
%K Quality factor
%U http://www.ispacs.com/journals/acte/2012/acte-00110/article.pdf