DESIGN OF ADAPTIVE ARRAY WITH E-SHAPE SLOT RADIATOR FOR SMART ANTENNA SYSTEM

This paper presents the design of an 8-element linear array for Adaptive Antenna applications using the Least Mean Square (LMS) algorithm towards improving the directive gain, beam steering capabilities, half-power beam-width, side-lobe level, and bandwidth of array. A conventional patch antenna is optimized to operate at 3.6 GHz (5G applications) with two symmetrical slots and Quarter Wave Transformer for feeding, and this design is extended up to 8 elements using CST Microwave Studio parameterization. The Return Loss ([S.sub.11]), Directivity, HPBW, and VSWR of the antenna array are observed for the 2, 4, and 8 elements adaptive arrays. The inter-element spacing for resulting eight-element antenna array geometry is optimized to obtain maximum directive gain. This geometry appears promising in improving the directive gain from 7.6 dBi to 15.1 dBi for a single element to eight elements, respectively. Further, the LMS algorithm is used to compute the optimal complex weights, considering different angles for the desired User (+45[degrees] and -45[degrees]) and Interferer (+20[degrees] and -20[degrees]) during MATLAB simulation, and then these optimal weights are fed to antenna elements using CST for beam steering in a different direction. Maxima in the direction of user and nulls in the direction of interferer are obtained using CST software and found closely matching with MATLAB results.