Compact printed dipole antenna with folding element for 2.4 Ghz WLAN communications

Author

Zhang, Beidou ; Gao, Guoping ; Lin, Dongmei

Author_Institution

Coll. of Atmos. Sci., Lanzhou Univ., Lanzhou, China

fYear

2012

fDate

12-15 Aug. 2012

Firstpage

565

Lastpage

568

Abstract

A novel printed dipole antenna suitable for 2.4 GHz WLAN application is presented and investigated in this paper. A folding structure in the end of dipole antenna is designed so that the antenna length has a reduction of 46.43 % compared to traditional printed dipole antenna. The effects of some important parameters on the return loss of the proposed antenna have been investigated. In order to operate as WLAN device, the printed dipole antenna should be characterized by a low profile and cover the operation bandwidth of the 2.400-2.484 GHz. The radiation pattern is similar to those conventional dipole antennas and the measured gain variation is less than 0.3dBi.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; dipole antennas; microstrip antennas; wireless LAN; WLAN communication; antenna length reduction; compact printed dipole antenna; folding element; frequency 2.400 GHz to 2.484 GHz; radiation pattern; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Bandwidth; Dipole antennas; Loss measurement; Wireless LAN; Printed dipole antenna; wireless local area network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing, Communication and Computing (ICSPCC), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2192-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSPCC.2012.6335643

Filename

6335643