Ultra Wideband ring monopole miniaturization using dielectric loading sandwich

Author

Pires, Nuno ; Moreira, António A.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 March 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A simple miniaturization technique using dielectric loading was applied to the design of ultra wideband (UWB) microstrip fed ring monopoles. The method consists of gluing a commercially available substrate layer to each metallization side. Two antenna prototypes were built and tested to validate the concept. The larger prototype covers the whole UWB bandwidth with |S₁₁| < -10 dB. The smaller has considerable reduced size, making it suitable for use in a Universal Serial Bus (USB) dongle. The larger structure was further investigated by testing the influence of a close metallic box on antenna matching.

Keywords

antenna feeds; microstrip antennas; monopole antennas; ultra wideband antennas; UWB bandwidth; UWB microstrip fed ring monopole atennna; antenna matching; close metallic box; dielectric loading sandwich; substrate layer; ultra wideband ring monopole miniaturization; universal serial bus dongle; Dielectric substrates; FCC; Loaded antennas; Microstrip; OFDM; Prototypes; Testing; Ultra wideband antennas; Ultra wideband technology; Universal Serial Bus;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antenna Technology, 2009. iWAT 2009. IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Santa Monica, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4395-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4396-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWAT.2009.4906910

Filename

4906910