A comparative study of material leucaena leucocephala stem Wood Plastic Composite (WPC) substrate with fr4 substrate throughout single patch antenna design

• Published in: Progress In Electromagnetics Research B
• Main Author: Azlan A.A.; Badrun M.K.A.; Ali M.T.; Awang Z.; Saad Z.M.; Awang A.H.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Electromagnetics Academy 2014
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84901470406&doi=10.2528%2fPIERB14020203&partnerID=40&md5=75f50b789d3d419750f30e839ef21050

The fabrication of single square patch antenna for proposed Leucaena Leucocephala ("Petai Belalang") Wood Plastic Composite (WPC) substrate board (PB Substrate board) and FR4 substrate board is presented in this paper. The experiment objective is to measure the performance of an antenna fabricated on the FR4 and PB substrate (proposed substrate) by comparing the performance in terms of material's dielectric constant and electron mobility and antennas' loss tangent, return loss (S11), radiation pattern and practical antenna transmitting performance. The new substrate compositions of Leucaena Leucocephala stem and polypropylene (PP) are 30% and 70% consecutively. The result for 150μm (sample B) indicates stability on most dielectric constant ("r = 3:02), loss tangent (tan±=0:029) and electron mobility (5:31£103 cm2/Vs), with the consistency of antenna result, between simulation and measurement. All results obtained will be analyzed and displayed in the form of data and graphs.