Custom-directional wideband PICA for multi-service vehicular applications

Author

Pell, B.D. ; Sulic, E. ; Rowe, W.S.T. ; Ghorbani, K.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., RMIT Univ., Melbourne, VIC, Australia

fYear

2009

fDate

7-10 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

1863

Lastpage

1866

Abstract

A wideband antenna for use in the vehicular environment is presented, based on the uniplanar CPW fed PICA slot antenna. The antenna provides a very wide impedance bandwidth from 730 MHz to 15 GHz, sufficient for many of the wireless services used in modern automobiles. The radiating mechanism of the antenna is able to be described in two ways at various frequencies, leading to alternate radiation patterns for various services.

Keywords

antenna feeds; antenna radiation patterns; automobiles; coplanar waveguides; mobile antennas; planar inverted-F antennas; slot antennas; antenna radiation mechanism; automobiles; bandwidth 730 MHz to 15 GHz; custom-directional wideband PICA; impedance bandwidth; multiservice vehicular application; planar inverted cone antenna; uniplanar CPW fed PICA slot antenna; wireless services; Automotive engineering; Bandwidth; Broadband antennas; Coplanar waveguides; Frequency; Impedance; Road vehicles; Satellite antennas; Slot antennas; Wideband; antennas; road vehicles; vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2009. APMC 2009. Asia Pacific

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2801-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2802-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APMC.2009.5384183

Filename

5384183