Wideband Printed Microstrip Antenna for Wireless Communications

Author

Sarin, V.P. ; Nassar, Nisha ; Deepu, V. ; Aanandan, C.K. ; Mohanan, P. ; Vasudevan, Kesavath

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Cochin Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kochi, India

Volume

8

fYear

2009

fDate

7/1/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

779

Lastpage

781

Abstract

A simple electromagnetically coupled wideband printed microstrip antenna having a 2:1 VSWR bandwidth of 38% covering the 5.2/5.8-GHz WLAN, HIPERLAN2, and HiSWANa communication bands is presented. The large bandwidth is obtained by adding a rectangular metal strip on a slotted square microstrip antenna. The antenna occupies an overall dimension of 42 times 55 times 3.2 mm³ when printed on a substrate of dielectric constant 4. It exhibits good radiation characteristics and moderate gain in the entire operating band. Details of the design along with experimental and simulation results are presented and discussed.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; broadband antennas; microstrip antennas; radio networks; slot antennas; HIPERLAN2; VSWR bandwidth; WLAN; dielectric constant; frequency 5.2 GHz; frequency 5.8 GHz; rectangular metal strip; slotted square microstrip antenna; wideband printed microstrip antenna; wireless communication; 5.2/5.8-GHz WLAN; HiSWANa; broadband microstrip antenna; wideband antennas;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1225

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LAWP.2009.2026193

Filename

5129694