V-Shaped Monopole Antenna with Chichena Itzia Inspired Defected Ground Structure for UWB Applications

Due to rapid growth in wireless communication technology, higher bandwidth requirement for advance telecommunication systems, capable of operating on two or higher bands with higher channel capacities and minimum distortion losses is desired. In this paper, a compact Ultra-Wideband (UWB) V-shaped monopole antenna is presented. UWB response is achieved by modifying the ground plane with Chichen Itzia inspired rectangular staircase shape. The proposed V-shaped is designed by incorporating a rectangle, and an inverted isosceles triangle using FR4 substrate. The size of the antenna is 25 mm×26 mm×1.6 mm. The proposed V-shaped monopole antenna produces bandwidth response of 3 GHz Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM), Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX), (IEEE 802.11/HIPERLAN band, 5G sub 6 GHz) which with an additional square cut amplified the bandwidth response up to 8 GHz ranging from 3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz attaining UWB defined by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with a maximum gain of 3.83 dB. The antenna is designed in Ansys HFSS. Results for key performance parameters of the antenna are presented. The measured results are in good agreement with the simulated results. Due to flat gain, uniform group delay, omni directional radiation pattern characteristics and well-matched impedance, the proposed antenna is suitable for WiMAX, ISM and heterogeneous wireless systems.     

Broadband flexible comb-shaped monopole antenna

A broadband comb-shaped monopole antenna is proposed. The antenna has dimensions of 19 mm x 12 mm. The measured results show good agreement with the numerical prediction, and broadband operation with 10 dB impedance bandwidth of 44.75% (1.7-2.68 GHz). The antenna is built on one side of a flexible-printed circuit board (PCB) dielectric substrate. Folded and rolled antenna structures, which are transformed by the proposed planar antenna structure, are presented. Each antenna has a broadband impedance bandwidth that covers the PCS, UMTS, WiBro, WLAN and SDMB bands. Also, omni-directional radiation patterns over the operating bands have been obtained. The proposed antennas are suitable for mobile communication applications requiring a small antenna.     

Triple-band wireless local area network monopole antenna

A triple-band Bluetooth (BT) and wireless local area network (WLAN) monopole antenna has been proposed based on concepts called capacitive loading/de-loading and inductive loading/de-loading. It has been demonstrated that BT and triple-band WLAN operations, including the BT 2.4 GHz (2.4-2.484 GHz), the WLAN IEEE 802.11 2.4 GHz (2.4-2.484 GHz), 5.2 GHz WLAN (5.15-5.35 GHz) and WLAN 5.8 GHz (5.725- 5.825 GHz) can be achieved by using the monopole antenna with an overall size 8.0 x 11.5 x 1.0 mm³, which is one of the most compact WLAN monopole antennas covering the three frequency bands.     

A Novel Compact Highly Isolated UWB MIMO Antenna with WLAN Notch

This paper presents a compact Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) antenna with WLAN band notch for Ultra-Wideband (UWB) applications. The antenna is designed on 0.8 mm thick low-cost FR-4 substrate having a compact size of 22 mm × 30 mm. The proposed antenna comprises of two monopole patches on the top layer of substrate while having a shared ground on its bottom layer. The mutual coupling between adjacent patches has been reduced by using a novel stub with shared ground structure. The stub consists of complementary rectangular slots that disturb the surface current direction and thus result in reducing mutual coupling between two ports. A slot is etched in the radiating patch for WLAN band notch. The slot is used to suppress frequencies ranging from 5.1 to 5.9 GHz. The results show that the proposed antenna has a very good impedance bandwidth of |S11| < −10 dB within the frequency band from 3.1–14 GHz. A low mutual coupling of less than −23 dB is achieved within the entire UWB band. Furthermore, the antenna has a peak gain of 5.8 dB, low ECC < 0.002 and high Diversity Gain (DG > 9.98).     

Inkjet Printed Metamaterial Loaded Antenna for WLAN/WiMAX Applications

In this paper, the design and performance analysis of an Inkjet-printed metamaterial loaded monopole antenna is presented for wireless local area network (WLAN) and worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) applications. The proposed metamaterial structure consists of two layers, one is rectangular tuning fork-shaped antenna, and another layer is an inkjet-printed metamaterial superstate. The metamaterial layer is designed using four split-ring resonators (SRR) with an H-shaped inner structure to achieve negative-index metamaterial properties. The metamaterial structure is fabricated on low-cost photo paper substrate material using a conductive ink-based inkjet printing technique, which achieved dual negative refractive index bands of 2.25–4.25 GHz and 4.3–4.6 GHz. The antenna is designed using a rectangular tuning fork structure to operate at WLAN and WiMAX bands. The antenna is printed on 30 × 39 × 1.27 mm3 Rogers RO3010 substrate, which shows wide impedance bandwidth of 0.75 GHz (2.2 to 2.95 GHz) with 2 dB realized gain at 2.4 GHz. After integrating metamaterial structure, the impedance bandwidth becomes 1.25 GHz (2.33 to 3.58 GHz) with 2.6 dB realized gain at 2.4 GHz. The antenna bandwidth and gain have been increased using developed quad SRR based metasurface by 500 MHz and 0.6 dBi respectively. Moreover, the proposed quad SRR loaded antenna can be used for 2.4 GHz WLAN bands and 2.5 GHz WiMAX applications. The contribution of this work is to develop a cost-effective inject printed metamaterial to enhance the impedance bandwidth and realized the gain of a WLAN/WiMAX antenna.     

Wideband multilayered microstrip antennas fed by coplanar waveguide-loop with and without via combinations

Coplanar waveguide (CPW)-loop fed wideband multilayered microstrip antennas with and without via combinations are presented. The antenna consists of two dielectric substrates, CPW-loop on the ground plane layer, main patch on the middle layer and four asymmetric parasitic patches on the upper layer. The feed consists of a CPW, a loop on a ground plane and a via between main patch and feeding strip on the ground plane layer. Using via, the gain flatness over the impedance bandwidth and return loss are improved. The proposed antenna with four feeding structures is also studied. The 10 dB return loss bandwidths of the antenna with and without via are 34% (3.12? 4.41 GHz) and 33.7% (3.18 ?4.47 GHz), respectively. The measured gain is >5.0 dBi over the impedance bandwidth.     

Triple-frequency meandered monopole antenna with shorted parasitic strips for wireless application

The performance of a triple-frequency meandered-strip monopole antenna for wireless application is presented. The proposed antenna comprises of a microstrip-fed monopole with an additional meandered strip and a ground plane with three protrudent strips on the opposite side of the substrate. By adding these shorted parasitic strips to this monopole, good impedance matching for multi-band application is obtained. Tuning effects of the additional shorted strips to the different resonant modes were examined and prototype of the proposed antenna had been constructed and experimentally studied. The measured results explore a broadband triple-frequency operation covering the required bandwidths of the PCS-1900/UMTS-2100 and the 2.4/5.2/5.8 GHz WLAN standards, a near-directive radiation pattern and a good antenna gain for this design.     

砖烟囱爆破拆除不同切口形状的数值模拟

针对烟囱爆破拆除时爆破切口形状的确定往往按经验确定,没有重视烟囱倒塌过程中一些问题很难通过理论预见的情况,利用ANSYS/LS-DYNA软件数值模拟了常见的长方形切口、正梯形切口、倒梯形切口这3种爆破切口形状对烟囱倒塌拆除过程并进行了对比和分析,研究结果表明:首先从爆破切口闭合时间看到,倒梯形切口闭合时间最长,正梯形切口闭合时间次之,长方形切口闭合时间最短。其次从烟囱顶端着地时间分析,正梯形切口烟囱顶端着地时间最长,而其它两种切口方案次之,并且这两种方案对烟囱倒塌时间差不多相等。再从模拟烟囱倒塌的过程分析,正梯形切口及长方形切口烟囱倒塌过程出现"后座"现象。最后从烟囱倒塌顶端速度变化曲线中看出正梯形切口烟囱倒塌方案对地面的冲击力最小,引起地面的振动强度最小。     

Reduction of ground-plane-dependent effects on microstrip-fed printed rectangular monopoles

Methods to mitigate the strong dependence of impedance bandwidth on the ground- plane size for a rectangular printed planar monopole is described. It is shown that the bandwidth limitation may be overcome by introducing feed-line asymmetry, which alters the purity and the Q of the higher frequency modes and by ground-plane augmentation, which effects the lower frequency modes. A method of extending the ground plane without increasing the overall antenna size is shown to improve both the bandwidth and gain and also to enable the use of significantly smaller ground planes. The effects of these techniques on radiation pattern are discussed.     

砖烟囱爆破拆除不同切口形状的数值模拟

针对烟囱爆破拆除时爆破切口形状的确定往往按经验确定,没有重视烟囱倒塌过程中一些问题很难通过理论预见的情况,利用ANSYS/LS-DYNA软件数值模拟了常见的长方形切口、正梯形切口、倒梯形切口这3种爆破切口形状对烟囱倒塌拆除过程并进行了对比和分析,研究结果表明:首先从爆破切口闭合时间看到,倒梯形切口闭合时间最长,正梯形切口闭合时间次之,长方形切口闭合时间最短。其次从烟囱顶端着地时间分析,正梯形切口烟囱顶端着地时间最长,而其它两种切口方案次之,并且这两种方案对烟囱倒塌时间差不多相等。再从模拟烟囱倒塌的过程分析,正梯形切口及长方形切口烟囱倒塌过程出现"后座"现象。最后从烟囱倒塌顶端速度变化曲线中看出正梯形切口烟囱倒塌方案对地面的冲击力最小,引起地面的振动强度最小。     

Dual wideband coplanar waveguide-fed notched antennas with asymmetrical grounds for multi-band wireless application

A novel single-layer planar monopole antenna is proposed for dual wideband operation. The antenna is a notched patch fed by a coplanar waveguide with two asymmetrical ground planes. The parametrical effects of the size of two such grounds and an embedded notch on the impedance matching condition have been examined theoretically. By fabricating and measuring the prototypes of the proposed antenna, two bands with 10 dB return loss bandwidths of about 490 MHz centred at 2.13 GHz band and of about 99.2% ranging from 3.32 to 6.9 GHz were obtained. A stable radiation pattern and average gains of greater than 2.6 and 4.8 dBi, respectively, over the two operating bands have also been obtained. These properties make the antenna suitable for multi-frequency wireless operation.     

Super Compact UWB Monopole Antenna for Small IoT Devices

This article introduces a novel, ultrawideband (UWB) planar monopole antenna printed on Roger RT/5880 substrate in a compact size for small Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The total electrical dimensions of the proposed compact UWB antenna are 0.19 λ_o × 0.215 λ_o × 0.0196 λ_o with the overall physical sizes of 15 mm × 17 mm × 1.548 mm at the lower resonance frequency of 3.8 GHz. The planar monopole antenna is fed through the linearly tapered microstrip line on a partially structured ground plane to achieve optimum impedance matching for UWB operation. The proposed compact UWB antenna has an operation bandwidth of 9.53 GHz from 3.026 GHz up to 12.556 GHz at −10 dB return loss with a fractional bandwidth (FBW) of about 122%. The numerically computed and experimentally measured results agree well in between. A detailed time-domain analysis is additionally accomplished to verify the radiation efficiency of the proposed antenna design for the ultra-wideband signal propagation. The fabricated prototype of a compact UWB antenna exhibits an omnidirectional radiation pattern with the low peak measured gain required of 2.55 dBi at 10 GHz and promising radiation efficiency of 90%. The proposed compact planar antenna has technical potential to be utilized in UWB and IoT applications.     

Polarisation control of a loop antenna by PIN diodes

A wire loop antenna with two electronic switches is introduced to control polarisation (left-hand, right-hand or linear polarisation). The loop is fed through an electromagnetically coupled monopole antenna. The loop and the monopole are located on a ground plane. The switching circuit with PIN diodes is installed near the feed point of the monopole to obtain symmetric radiation patterns. Good axial ratio and impedance characteristics are obtained. The experimental results show the capability of the polarisation control by electronic switches     

A Compact Rhombus Shaped Antenna with Extended Stubs for Ultra-Wideband Applications

Ultra-wideband (UWB) is highly preferred for short distance communication. As a result of this significance, this project targets the design of a compact UWB antennas. This paper describes a printed UWB rhombus-shaped antenna with a partial ground plane. To achieve wideband response, two stubs and a notch are incorporated at both sides of the rhombus design and ground plane respectively. To excite the antenna, a simple microstrip feed line is employed. The suggested antenna is built on a 1.6 mm thick FR4 substrate. The proposed design is very compact with overall electrical size of 0.18λ × 0.25λ (14 × 18 mm²). The rhombus shaped antenna covers frequency ranging from 3.5 to 11 GHz with 7.5 GHz impedance bandwidth. The proposed design simulated and measured bandwidths are 83.33% and 80%, respectively. Radiation pattern in terms of E-field and H-field are discussed at 4, 5.5 and 10 GHz respectively. The proposed design has 65% radiation efficiency and 1.5 dBi peak gain. The proposed design is simulated in CST (Computer Simulation Technology) simulator and the simulated design is fabricated for the measured results. The simulated and measured findings are in close resemblance. The obtained results confirm the application of the proposed design for the ultra-wide band applications.     

一种改善超宽带MIMO天线隔离性能的方法

多输入多输出(Multiple-InputMultiple-Output,MIMO)技术是现代通信技术的发展趋势,为移动通信的迅速更迭提供了极大支持.设计了一种二端口的超宽带MIMO天线,其-10 dB阻抗带宽从3.3 GHz扩展到9.1 GHz.通过在天线接地板上蚀刻一条宽缝隙,并在其中添加音叉型枝节,改善了超宽带M...     

On chip plasmonic monopole nano-antennas and circuits

Analogues of many radio frequency (RF) antenna designs such as the half-wave dipole and Yagi-Uda have been successfully adapted to the optical frequency regime, opening the door for important advances in biosensing, photodetection, and emitter control. Examples of monopole antennas, however, are conspicuously rare given the element's extensive use in RF applications. Monopole antennas are attractive as they represent an easy to engineer, compact geometry and are well isolated from interference due the ground plane. Typically, however, the need to orient the antenna element perpendicular to a semi-infinite ground plane requires a three-dimensional structure and is incompatible with chip-based fabrication techniques. We propose and demonstrate here for the first time that monopole antenna elements can be fashioned out of single element nanoparticles fabricated in conventional planar geometries by using a small nanorod as a wire reflector. The structure offers a compact geometry and the reflector element provides a measure of isolation analogous to the RF counterpart. This isolation persists in the conductive coupling regime, allowing multiple monopoles to be combined into a single nanoparticle, yet still operate independently. This contrasts with several previous studies that observed dramatic variations in the spectral response of conductively coupled particles. We are able to account for these effects by modeling the system using circuit equations from standard RF antenna theory. Our model accurately describes this behavior as well as the detailed resonance tuning of the structure. As a specific practical application, the monopole resonances are precisely tuned to desired protein absorption bands, thereby enhancing their spectroscopic signatures. Furthermore, the accurate modeling of conductive coupling and demonstrated electronic isolation should be of general interest to the design of complex plasmonic circuits incorporating multiple antennas and other current carrying elements.     

Rectangular microstrip antennas

Abstract

The theory of rectangular microstrip antennas based on the line resonator model and the cavity model are summarized. The theoretical and experimental values of input impedance and radiation patterns are compared, and the discrepency between these two values are explained. A parallelogram microstrip antenna is constructed, and the input impedances are compared to those of the rectangular microstrip antenna.     

NIM反射试验场电性能评估核心技术研究

评测中国计量科学研究院(NIM)新建反射试验场测试装置的准确性,需要足够准确的基准值。通过分析对比矩量法模型与实测模型,设计制作了一种小馈源偶极子天线,根据矩量法准确性与收发天线间距无关这一特性的近场法,分析了近场法在实测中的误差缩减效应,然后据此验证了基准值的准确性(在30 MHz~1 GHz频段24个典型频率点的场地插入损耗偏差小于0.22 dB,相当于天线系数误差小于0.11 dB)。在30 MHz~1 GHz频段10 m距离条件下对NIM新建测试装置的评测结果为:在24个典型频点,水平极化时偏差小于0.26 dB,垂直极化时偏差小于0.34 dB;在频率间隔1 MHz的扫频范围内,垂直极化时偏差小于0.6 dB。     

Finite-difference time-domain model for the feeding gap of coaxial probe driven antennas

In the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, a simple and realistic feed model for coaxial probe driven antennas is proposed here. The feed zone of the antenna may be considered as an equivalent source in view of the antenna theory and a load port in view of the transmission line theory. The proposed feed model is constructed by combining the infinitesimal-gap source condition of the antenna and the equivalent load condition of the feed line. It leads to perform no additional FDTD cell modelling of the line. The transient reflected voltage and the input impedance of cylindrical monopole antennas fed by coaxial lines are calculated numerically and then compared with the accurate measurement and a full fine-grid. The FDTD results of the proposed model have a good agreement with the measured data and the fine-grid results.     

Small modified monopole antenna for UWB application

In this paper, we present a novel modified printed monopole antenna (PMA) for ultra-wideband (UWB) applications. The proposed antenna consists of a truncated ground plane and radiating patch with two tapered steps, which provides wideband behaviour and relatively good matching. Moreover, the effects of a modified trapezoid-shaped slot inserted in the radiating patch, on the impedance matching and radiation behaviour is investigated. The antenna has a small area of 14 x 20 mm² and offers an impedance bandwidth as high as 100% at a centre frequency of 7.45 GHz for S₁₁ < -10 dB, which has a frequency bandwidth increment of 18% with respect to the previous similar antenna. Simulated and experimental results obtained for this antenna show that it exhibits good radiation behaviour within the UWB frequency range.