Design of Triangular Antenna Arrays conformal to both planer and cylindrical surface

Abstract-In this paper,the comprehensive study of equilateral triangular microstrip array conformal to both planer and cylindrical surface is presented for 2.4GHz. The triangular patch antenna configuration is chosen because it has the advantage of occupying less metalized area. In certain applications, desired antenna characteristics may be achieved with a single microstrip element. However, as in the case of conventional microwave antenna, characteristics such as high gain, beam scanning, or steering capability are possible only when discrete radiators are combined to form arrays. Specially in this paper single element, 1×2 and 1×4 are designed and simulated by HFSS-13. The effect of array on planer and cylindrical surface is studied. Better performance in gain, return loss and VSWR is observed for 1×4 conformal array as 13.78 dB,-48.69 dB, and 1.007 respectively. The proposed design can be used in many application including ISM band and WLAN. Keywords- Triangular patch array, Conformal array, Cylindrical surface, HFSS-13