Microwave Engineering Laboratory (MEL)

Novel substrate materials

( synthesis & characterizations)
Applications

Antenna

Design
& Analysis

EMI Materials

Absorber fabrication
& Analysis

Low & high power

passive devices
Design
& Analysis

Numerical modeling

FDTD technique

Antenna applications

Substrate and Ground Plane Modification for achieving broadband operation

of microstrip antennas

Fig:1 SEM of LDPE/TiO2 composite substrate

Fig:2 Graded substrate for microstrip antennas.

D. Sarmah, J.R. Deka, S. Bhattacharyya and N.S.

Bhattacharyya,
Study
of
LDPE/TiO2 and
PS/TiO2 Composites as Potential Substrates for Microstrip
Patch Antennas, Journal of Electronic Materials, vol. 39,
Issue 10, pp. 2359-2365, October 2010.

Fig:3 Ground plane embedded design

In touch superstrate technique for measurement of complex permittivity

LDPE/COFe2O4 and LDPE/NiFe2O4

2, 2

Fig:1 Schematic diagram the measurement setup

1, 1

K. Borah and N.S. Bhattacharyya, Magneto-dielectric

material with nano ferrite inclusion for microstrip antennas:
Dielectric
characterization,IEEE
Transaction
on
dielectrics and electrical insulation, vol. 17, Issue 6, pp.
1676-1681, December 2010.
Fig:2 Fragmented view of the test
element

1.2 mm

2.5 mm

Schematic of designing of antenna on magnetodielectric sample

Fig3: Schematic of designing of antenna on magnetodielectric sample

K. Borah and N.S. Bhattacharyya, Miniaturized patch antennas on magnetodielectric substrate for X
band communications,IEEE Proc. of International conferenceOn devices and communications,
Ranchi,India, February 2010.

Fabricated antennas

Return loss analysis

MPA 1

MPA 4

MPA 2

MPA 5

MPA 3

MPA 6

Radiation pattern

MPA1

MPA 2

MPA 4

MPA 3

MPA 5

MPA 6

Planar passive devices

Magnetically tunable microstrip notch filters on NiFe 2O4 LDPE

substrate

(G)

Grounded CPW configuration for determination of

complex permittivity and complex permeability of
magneto- dielectric composite material using scalar
S- parameters

Tunable microstrip notch filter on Co0.4Ni0.6Fe2O4 LDPE

substrate

Return Loss Measurement of RRSR on Co0.4Ni0.6Fe2O4 LDPE

Substrate Under External DC Magnetic Field at X-band

Return loss (dB)

Frequency (GHz)

Q_ 0 G = 117.74
Q_ 40 G = 117.52
Q_100 G = 112.73

Q_ 0 G = 220.37
Q_ 40 G = 228.80
Q_100 G = 228.85

Q_ 0 G = 151.40 10.60 GHz

Q_ 40 G = 152.14
Q_ 0 G = 450.00
Q_100 G = 326.26
Q_ 40 G = 554.20
Q_100 G = 557.14
10.11 GHz

11.90 GHz

11.70 GHz

Numerical modeling

FDTD technique

Time
plane
(k 1)

Ex

Hy

Ex

(k 3 / 2)

( k 1 / 2)

(k 1)

(k 1)

( k 1 / 2)

(k )

(k 1)

(k 2)

(k 3 / 2)

(n 1 / 2)

(k 2)
(n 1/ 2)

Developed FDTD code for free space and dielectric medium interface

Fig- spatial variation of the electric field and magnetic field along the direction of propagation for
T=80 and T=100.

Laboratory facilities

High power (200 kW) microwave spin-wave instability

measurement setup

Indigenous PC- interface

automated antenna radiation
pattern measurement setup

Indigenous PC- interface automated X-band microwave bench

Vector Network Analyzer

Request
For a software for EMI design analysis (EMPro /
XFDTD/ HFSS).
Approximate price: 10 to 15 lacs

Propagating of a soft source