Design and Optimisation of Microstrip Patch Antennas Using Generative Adversarial Networks
摘要
This paper presents a generative adversarial network (GAN)-based design and optimization framework for microstrip patch antennas operating in the Terahertz (THz) band. Unlike conventional analytical or neural network models that require extensive parametric tuning, the proposed GAN learns to synthesise physically valid antenna geometries and predict their performance metrics directly from analytically generated and simulated datasets. The generator maps a 100-dimensional Gaussian latent vector to six key antenna design parameters–patch length, patch width, substrate height, dielectric constant, gain, and bandwidth–while the discriminator distinguishes real antenna configurations from generated ones. The framework integrates closed-form electromagnetic design relations during training, ensuring that the synthesised designs remain physically realizable and fabrication-feasible. Comprehensive evaluations demonstrate that the GAN-generated antennas achieve an average gain improvement of 1.7 dB and a bandwidth enhancement of 8% compared to conventional deep neural network (DNN)-based and analytical baseline designs. The predicted return loss (