Wideband to narrowband/dual band characteristics of monopole antenna using frequency selective surfaces

A monopole antenna having desirable transmission characteristics with high gain is proposed. The monopole antenna comprises 45° tilted square shaped patch and modified rectangular metallic ground plane on FR4 dielectric substrate. The proposed monopole antenna operates from 2.6 GHz to 9.7 GHz with maximum peak gain of 2.3 dBi. Now, a dual-layer aperture-type FSS is designed having a passband from 5.9 GHz to 9.2 GHz and incorporated with the proposed monopole antenna. Thus, the combination only covers the selective frequency band from 5.5 GHz to 8.7 GHz with a stable gain of around 5 dBi. Second, another FSS is designed, which has one stop-band from 4.1 GHz to 5.4 GHz and two passbands on the both sides of this stop-band. This combination does not work from 4.1 GHz to 5.5 GHz but covers dual band from 2.48 GHz to 3.3 GHz with a peak gain of 5 dBi and 5.5 GHz to 10 GHz with a peak gain of 5.5 dBi. Therefore, without modifying the antenna design, any tunable transmission band can be achieved by the proposed combination. The proposed antenna and FSS combination structure may be suitable for military wireless applications for its band selection characteristics.