Nonradiating edges and four edges gap-coupled multiple resonator broad-band microstrip antennas

Two novel configurations for increasing the impedance bandwidth of the microstrip patch antennas are described. One of these configurations used two additional resonators which are gap-coupled to the nonradiating edges of a rectangular patch, whereas in the second case, four additional resonators are gap-coupled to the four edges of a rectangular patch. Green's function approach and segmentation method are used for analysis. The experimental results are in reasonable agreement with analysis, and impedance bandwidths of 480 MHz and 815 MHz are obtained for the three resonators and five resonators configurations, respectively (in S-band with substrate epsilon sub = 2.55 and thickness = 0.318 cm).