Electromagnetic band gap coupled tri-notched miniaturized ultra-wideband antenna loaded with slot and parasitic strip

An electromagnetic band gap (EBG) coupled miniaturized tri-notched printed ultra-wideband (UWB) monopole microstrip antenna having dimensions of 22 mm × 26 mm × 1.6 mm loaded with a slot in radiating patch and a parasitic strip in the ground plane has been presented. The proposed structure incorporates a square-shaped metallic radiating patch with a square EBG structure adjacent to the microstrip feed line, a U-shaped meandered slot over the radiating element, and a U-shaped parasitic resonator at the ground plane beneath the radiating element, to reject the C-band satellite downlink (3.7 to 4.2 GHz), WLAN frequency band (5.15 to 5.85 GHz), and X-band satellite downlink (7.25 to 7.75 GHz) frequency bands, respectively. The designed antenna operates in the frequency range from 3 to 11.1 GHz, with an impedance bandwidth of 8.1 GHz and a percentage bandwidth of 114%. Modification steps incorporating into the reference antenna to achieve the desired design objectives have been discussed, along with parametric studies. The proposed design has been simulated using Ansys HFSS, and measurement has been taken using standard measurement technique and compared with the simulated results.     

Broadband probe-fed patch antenna with a W-shaped ground plane

A new design of a broadband probe-fed patch antenna with a W-shaped ground plane is presented. The W-shaped ground plane is obtained by bending the conventional planar ground plane into an inverted V-shape, seen in the resonant direction of the patch antenna and then adding proper flanges at the two straight edges of the bent ground plane. The proposed design is applicable to the patch antenna with a planar radiating patch with a thin air substrate. With the use of the proposed W-shaped ground plane, the required probe-pin length in the substrate remains small, although the effective substrate thickness is significantly increased, resulting in a much wider operating bandwidth. Also, by choosing proper dimensions of the W-shaped ground plane, the antenna gain for frequencies over the obtained wide bandwidth is enhanced, compared to the conventional patch antenna with a planar ground plane. In addition, the cross polarization is also reduced for the proposed design and the cross-polarization level (XPL) in the H-plane pattern can even be better than that of a conventional probe-fed patch antenna with a thin air substrate     

Compact circularly polarised microstrip antenna with slotted groundplane

A novel compact circularly polarised microstrip antenna with a slotted ground plane is proposed. By embedding a group of four bent slots in the ground plane and truncating a pair of patch comers in the radiating square patch, the proposed antenna can perform circular polarisation (CP) operation with a reduced antenna size at a fixed operating frequency. In addition, enhanced CP bandwidth and antenna gain for the proposed design are observed. Details of the antenna design and experimental results are presented and discussed     

小型化宽频带PIFA 天线的设计与仿真

针对现代通信系统终端小型化、宽频带的要求,本文提出了一种新型小型化宽频带平面倒F 天线。该天线由 金属地板、辐射贴片、短路贴片和馈电系统四部分组成。其中对地板进行十字缝隙开槽,短路贴片采用短路墙,馈电 系统采用二等分威尔金森功分器。采用HFSS13.0 软件对天线进行仿真,仿真结果表明,该天线在2.01~2.61GHz 频带 范围内驻波比小于2, 阻抗带宽达到26.3%;1.66~2.75GHz 频带范围内增益大于3dBi,增益带宽达到47.4%。同时,天 线的自由空间辐射方向图也满足无线通信终端要求。     

一种新型陷波特性超宽带天线设计

为了满足现代通信的需求,设计了一种新型的超宽带平面天线,实现了良好的超宽频带阻抗匹配.该天线的辐射贴片与接地板结构相似,通过在辐射贴片上加载U型槽以及在馈线一侧加载新型陷波结构分别在中心频率3.5 GHz和5.5 GHz处产生陷波.天线实测与仿真结果基本相近,通带内辐射效果良好,且该天线对WIMAX及WLAN波段有很好的抑制功能,可用于超宽带系统.     

一种小型的三陷波UWB天线

设计了一种小型三陷波平面超宽带天线,通过在天线的辐射贴片上加载U形缝隙、在接地板上开一对对称的L形缝隙和引入寄生条带,使得天线在3.2～3.6GHz、3.7～4.3GHz和5.3～6GHz频段内实现频率阻断。利用仿真软件研究了U形缝隙、L形缝隙和寄生条带对陷波特性的影响,并对所设计的超宽带天线进行了制作和测量。结果显示,该天线在工作频段2.8～10.6GHz内具有良好的辐射方向特性,能广泛应用于超宽带系统。     

A Novel Elliptical Ring Microstrip Patch Antenna for Ultra-Wideband Applications

This paper proposes a new ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna. The proposed antenna is designed for operation from 3 to 15 GHz. It consists of a Sierpinski fractal based ellipse etched onto the radiating patch and a rectangular defected ground structure in the ground plane. Details of the proposed antenna as well as with variations in design variables are presented and the results discussed.

     

A compact high gain microstrip antenna for wireless applications

In this article, we describe a novel type of defective ground surface (DGS) microstrip antenna that achieves higher gain, multi resonant frequency with compact size. The proposed antenna consists of a hexagonal shaped patch with small volume. Six triangular slots have been cut on the ground plane, just below the six corners of the hexagonal radiating patch. Antenna is circularly polarized one and it has the measured peak gain of 7.2 dBi. The antenna shows multi frequency behavior and more than 57% compactness compare to the conventional hexagonal patch antenna. The simulated results are confirmed experimentally. The proposed antenna is simple in structure compared with the regular stacked or coplanar parasitic patch antennas. It is highly suitable for wireless communications.     

An inverted U-shaped patch antenna for compact operation

By using a novel inverted U-shaped radiating patch in place of the conventional planar patch, compact operation of air-substrate patch antennas is presented. The inverted U-shaped patch is formed by adding two downward rims at the two radiating edges of a planar rectangular or square patch. And owing to the added rims, the excited patch's surface current paths are lengthened, which effectively lowers the antenna's resonant frequency and results in large antenna size reduction (>50%). The proposed compact design has been successfully applied to air-substrate patch antennas fed by an aperture-coupled feed. In addition to large size reduction obtained, the proposed antenna with an air-substrate thickness about 5% the wavelength of the center operating frequency can have an impedance bandwidth (10-dB return loss) greater than 9%, a peak antenna gain of about 6.4 dBi, and good broadside radiation patterns with cross-polarization levels better than 20 dB in principal planes.     

Network model for capacitively fed microstrip element

A network model is presented for the capacitively fed microstrip antenna element. This element consists of a ground plane, a radiating patch and a small patch located between the ground plane and radiating patch. The small patch is fed by a coaxial probe. The capacitive coupling between the patches allows the antenna to be matched. The network model is derived from a rigorous solution. The relationship between the lumped components of the network model and the physical working mechanism of the structure is described     

Differential Dual‐Frequency Antenna for Wireless Communication

A novel differential dual‐frequency antenna using proximity coupling is proposed. Dual bands are realized by a slot in the ground plane. The lower resonant frequency is controlled by the slot in the ground plane, and the upper resonant frequency is mainly determined by the dimensions of the radiating patch. Measured results show that the proposed antenna can operate at 2.51 GHz and 5.38 GHz.     

Compact design of single-feed circularly polarised microstrip antenna

A compact design of a single-feed circularly polarised (CP) microstrip antenna with relaxed manufacturing tolerances is presented. The CP operation of the microstrip antenna is achieved using a cross slot embedded on the radiating patch. By cutting an additional cross slot on the ground plane, not only the CP operating frequency can be decreased but also the slot-length ratio of the cross slot on the radiating patch can be considerably increased. In addition, the performance of the proposed design, such as CP bandwidth and peak gain, have no significant reduction.     

Circular Polarization in Defected Hexagonal Shaped Microstrip Antenna

A novel circular polarization (CP) design of a single-feed Hexagonal shaped microstrip antenna for enhanced antenna parameters is presented. The CP design is obtained by placing three isosceles triangular defects at proper locations in the hexagonal radiating patch as well as in the square ground plane. By adjusting one of the side lengths of the triangular defect, slightly longer or shorter than that of the others, two orthogonal near degenerate resonant modes for CP radiation are excited. Moreover, the 3 dB axial ratio bandwidth is surrounded by the 10 dB impedance bandwidth, to ensure that the antenna radiates CP waves in its impedance band. The antenna gain of the proposed antenna has increased by 5.34 dB (7.93 vs. 2.59 dB), as compared to the hexagonal microstrip antenna with triangular truncations in patch but without triangular defects in the ground plane having same substrate material, height and same radiating patch size and shape. Prototype antenna is fabricated for experimental evaluation. Simulated and measured results are in good agreement with each other.     

A Tunable Via-Patch Loaded PIFA With Size Reduction

A novel tunable planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) is described. A via-patch is introduced under the main radiating element to create a capacitive coupling effect and lower the operating frequency. The antenna size is reduced by half when compared to the conventional PIFA. Incorporating with an L-shaped opening on the ground plane, the proposed via-patch loaded PIFA exhibits a 10-dB return-loss bandwidth of 8.91% for 2.4 GHz ISM band applications. In the proposed approach, the capacitive patch is connected to the ground through a via while a coaxial feed is directly connected to the radiating element. This is different from other capacitive-loading, size-reduction schemes in which the capacitive patch is connected to the coaxial feed, thus not able to provide frequency tuning. By simply replacing the via in our antenna with a screw and adjusting the height of the via-patch by turning the screw, a tuning range of 0.8 GHz from 2.5-3.3 GHz can be achieved. This makes the proposed PIFA a convenient tunable small antenna. Both simulation and measurement results are presented together with parametric studies on the via-patch and L-shaped opening ground plane     

一种新颖的双陷波超宽带天线设计

针对超宽带系统易受窄带信号干扰的问题,设计了一种新颖的基于金属开口谐振环结构的双陷波平面超宽带天线。通过在天线的辐射贴片上加载U形槽和在接地板上引入寄生条带的方法实现了双陷波特性。利用仿真软件研究了U形槽和寄生条带的物理尺寸对陷波特性的影响,并对所设计的超宽带天线进行了制作和测量。仿真和测试结果表明,天线在超宽带系统3.1～10.6GHz工作频段内的电压驻波比小于2,在WiMAX和WLAN频率范围具有良好的陷波特性,有效地抑制了超宽带通信系统与窄带通信系统之间潜在的干扰。     

Gain enhancement of a circularly polarized equilateral-triangular microstrip antenna with a slotted ground plane

A novel circular polarization (CP) design of a single-feed equilateral-triangular microstrip antenna with enhanced antenna gain is presented. This CP design is obtained by placing three triangular slots at properly locations below the equilateral-triangular radiating patch in the ground plane. By adjusting one of the triangular slot's side lengths slightly longer than that of the others, two orthogonal near-degenerate resonant modes for CP radiation can be excited. Measured antenna gain in this study can easily be increased by 3.3 dBi (5.1 dBi versus 1.8 dBi), as compared to the same height, substrate material, operating frequency and radiating patch shape of a regular equilateral-triangular microstrip antenna without triangular slots in the ground plane. Prototype antenna is fabricated for experimental evaluation. Simulated and measured results are presented.     

Design of a compact broadband microstrip patch antenna with probe feeding for wireless applications

In this paper the design and development of a compact broadband probe-fed Microstrip patch antenna for bandwidth improvement and antenna size reduction in a single design is proposed. The well-known technique of effective substrate thickness increment is performed to improve the impedance bandwidth, whereas for size reduction the electrical length of the conducting patch has been increased. A compact probe-fed inverted U-shaped microstrip patch antenna with a W-shaped ground plane has been designed and the experimental results are presented.     

一种新型小尺寸三陷波超宽带天线设计

文中提出了一种新型小尺寸具有三陷波特性的UWB天线。所设计的天线基本几何结构由50 Ω馈电线、圆形辐射贴片、缺陷地和一对开口谐振环组成,通过在天线的圆形辐射贴片上内嵌一对Y型贴片、地板上蚀刻出U型贴片和一对开口谐振环实现三陷波特性,天线的尺寸为30 mm×30 mm×16 mm。仿真和测试结果表明,该天线29~107 GHz的频段内回波损耗＜-10 dB,在37~42 GHz、515~5825 GHz和79~84 GHz3个频段内具有陷波特性,分别有效抑制了C频段的卫星系统、WLAN系统和X频段卫星系统对超宽带系统的干扰。在除3个阻带频段外的其余UWB工作频段范围内,有着良好的辐射方向特性和稳定的增益。仿真结果和实验结果表现出了良好的一致性。     

Study of the capacitively fed microstrip antenna element

The moment method is used to solve the integral equations describing the capacitively fed rectangular microstrip antenna element. This element consists of a ground plane, a radiating patch, and a small patch located between ground plane and radiating patch. The small patch is fed by a coaxial probe. It excites the radiating patch through capacitive coupling. After checking the accuracy by comparing calculated and measured results, the effect of the capacitor patch is analyzed theoretically. A procedure is given to determine capacitor patches which yield elements matched to the coaxial feed. It is shown how a matched configuration can be found for a given capacitor patch height     

Internal Ultrawideband Monopole Antenna for Wireless USB Dongle Applications

A novel, ultrawideband (UWB) monopole antenna suitable to be mounted on the printed circuit board (PCB) of a wireless, universal, serial-bus (USB) dongle as an internal antenna is presented. The proposed antenna in the study is a U-shaped, metal-plate monopole antenna, easily fabricated from bending a simple metal plate onto a foam base of a compact size of 6times11times20 mm³. The antenna mainly comprises a pair of wide-ended radiating arms and a bevel-feed transition. When the antenna is mounted at the top portion of the PCB, one end of the radiating arm is also short-circuited to the system ground plane. With the proposed antenna structure, which can provide a very wide operating bandwidth of larger than 7.6 GHz, the antenna impedance bandwidth can easily cover the 3.1-10.6 GHz UWB band. Details of the antenna design are described, and experimental results of the constructed prototypes are presented and discussed