Design of an Ultra Wideband Universal Serial Bus device mounted antenna

Author

Pires, Nuno ; Letizia, Marco ; Maisenbacher, Achim

Author_Institution

Inst. de Telecomun., Inst. Super. Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal

fYear

2010

fDate

1-3 March 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The present paper reports on the simulation, construction and measurement of a planar Ultra Wideband (UWB) monopole antenna designed to operate inside a Universal Serial Bus (USB) dongle, aiming at usage in industrial applications. Inexpensive FR4 substrate with Â¿_r = 4.4 and 0.8 mm thickness was used and the antenna shape and dimensions fit in a common case. The built antenna prototype was tested inside a USB device case in free space and in a realistic antenna deployment scenario, with the dongle connected to a laptop computer. It was found that the designed antenna exhibits acceptable |S₁₁| matching in the frequency range [2.5; 12] GHz, allowing its usage in UWB and other wireless services such as Bluetooth, LTE and IEEE 802.11.

Keywords

monopole antennas; peripheral interfaces; ultra wideband antennas; Bluetooth; FR4 substrate; IEEE 802.11; LTE; USB device; antenna deployment scenario; antenna shape; industrial application; planar ultra wideband monopole antenna; ultra wideband device mounted antenna; universal serial bus device mounted antenna; wireless services; Antenna measurements; Construction industry; Frequency; Portable computers; Prototypes; Shape; Testing; Ultra wideband antennas; Ultra wideband technology; Universal Serial Bus;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antenna Technology (iWAT), 2010 International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4883-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4885-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWAT.2010.5464928

Filename

5464928