Title :
Scaling property of the Koch fractal dipole
Author_Institution :
Nat. Aeronaut. & Space Adm., Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Abstract :
The increased interest in fractal antennas is due to their possible application in multi-band wireless communication devices. The fractal antenna is formed by applying a generator shape repetitively at a constant scale factor and results in an antenna with log-periodic characteristics. By utilizing the selfsimilar nature of the fractal shape, one can develop some fast approximation techniques.
Keywords :
dipole antennas; fractals; log periodic antennas; FDTD; Koch fractal dipole; MoM; constant scale factor; fast approximation techniques; finite difference time domain; fractal antennas; input impedance; log-periodic characteristics; method of moments; multi-band wireless communication devices; scaling property; self similarity; Application software; Dipole antennas; Equations; Finite difference methods; Fractal antennas; Impedance; Message-oriented middleware; Shape; Time domain analysis; Wireless communication;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2001. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7070-8
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2001.960055
