A proposed sensor for landmines detection consists of two parallel microstrip antennas placed on the same ground plane and with defected ground structure between them has been investigated. The microstrip patch array with defected ground structure has the advantage of a low mutual coupling compared with the classic one. The Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) is used to simulate the sensor for...

Different feeding techniques of microstrip patch antennas with different spiral defected ground structures are presented in this paper. The investigated structures illustrate some merits in designing multi-electromagnetic band-gap structures by adjusting the capacitance and changing the inductance through varying the width and length of spiral defected ground structure. Then by applying the thr...

Microstrip antennas have numerous advantages such as small size, low fabrication cost, light weight and can be easily installed in the systems and it finds its applications in various systems like aircraft, satellite and spacecraft. But it has drawback of narrow bandwidth. To overcome this drawback, Microstrip Antennas with Defected Ground structure can be used. In this paper, a microstrip patc...

-Wide band truncated rectangular microstrip antenna with H slot loaded and defected ground plane structure is presented in this paper to increase the bandwidth. It is found that the impedance bandwidth of a microstrip antenna could be enhanced considerably when a defected ground structure is used .The band width of a truncated rectangular microstrip antenna with H slot is 21.2% whereas after ad...

In this paper, two compact quad-channel and six-channel diplexer are designed and fabricated using defected microstrip structure (DMS). This structure is designed for the desired frequency based on the literature reviews. The proposed configuration is composed of a conventional T-junction divider with two pairs of open bended stubs and dual/tri-band filters. In designing dual band filters, a lo...

In this Letter, a dumbbell-shaped patch loaded slotline(PLS) is proposed. Like the conventional defected ground structure(DGS) for a microstrip line, we show that the proposed PLS can provide a wide bandstop characteristic in some frequency bands with only one or small number of unit cells. Also, the equivalent circuit model for a unit section is derived from the analysis of the field distribut...

In this paper a four-pole elliptic function bandpass filter is designed with two ground slots. A research of microstrip bandpass filters (BPF) using defected ground structures (DGS) is presented. DGS technique allows designs of tight couplings without the necessity of using very narrow coupling gaps. The simulator Sonnet is used to design the resonator and to calculate the coupling coefficient ...

─ This paper presents a novel miniaturized parallel coupled-line bandpass filter by etching some slot resonators on the strip for suppressing the first spurious response. These slots perform a serious LC resonance property in certain frequency and suppress the spurious signals. By properly tuning these slot dimensions, multiple closed notches can be generated in the vicinity of spurious harmoni...

A compact symmetrical band-pass filter design using coupled microstrip line is presented in this paper. The microstrip line sections connected to the two input and output ports of the filter structure are printed over the Defected Ground Structure (DGS). The proposed symmetrical structure offers a simple and compact design and exhibits improved stop-band characteristics in comparison to the con...