Polypropylene-Based Dual-Band CPW-Fed Monopole Antenna [Antenna Applications Corner]

Author

de Cos, M.E. ; Las-Heras, Fernando

Author_Institution

Dept. de Ing. Electr., Univ. de Oviedo, Gijon, Spain

Volume

55

Issue

3

fYear

2013

fDate

41426

Firstpage

264

Lastpage

273

Abstract

A flexible, wearable CPW-fed monopole antenna, based on aluminum-metallized polypropylene (PP), is presented. Its low cost, light weight, and moisture robustness make it proper for 2.45 GHz and 5.8 GHz dual-band RFID applications. A polypropylene sample was electromagnetically characterized in terms of relative dielectric permittivity and loss tangent in order to design the antenna. The performance of the polypropylene-based antenna in both simulation and measurement was compared to the performance of a commercial rigid-dielectric substrate-based antenna with the same geometry. The robustness to moisture of the manufactured polypropylene-based antenna was also tested.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna feeds; coplanar waveguides; monopole antennas; multifrequency antennas; permittivity; polymers; radiofrequency identification; waveguide antennas; aluminum-metallized polypropylene; antenna design; commercial rigid-dielectric substrate-based antenna; dual-band RFID applications; flexible wearable CPW-fed monopole antenna; frequency 2.45 GHz; frequency 5.8 GHz; loss tangent; polypropylene-based dual-band CPW-fed monopole antenna; relative dielectric permittivity; Electronic mail; Monopole antennas; Radio frequency; Substrates; Flexible antenna; coplanar waveguide fed (CPW-fed); dual-band antenna; printed monopole antenna; radio frequency identification (RFID);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Propagation Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1045-9243

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MAP.2013.6586683

Filename

6586683