Abstract

As the size of communication devices is decreasing day by day, small size multiband antennas are in great demand\nfor both commercial and military applications. This paper presents miniaturization by introducing staircase shape at each\nedge of the patch of Microstrip Patch Antenna. The Rogers RT/Duroid 5880 with relative permittivity 2.2 and height 1.6 mm\nis used as substrate material for design of proposed antenna. Artificial neural network based approach is used for calculating\nthe resonating frequency of the antenna. The back propagation algorithm is used and the results obtained using artificial\nneural network is compared with the simulated results obtained by using IE3D software.