A planar antenna with very wide impedance bandwidth

Author

Guangqiu, Zhang ; Zhen, Tu ; Feng, Xing ; Zhichen, Wang

Author_Institution

PLA Inf. Eng. Univ., Zhengzhou

Volume

3

fYear

2008

fDate

21-24 April 2008

Firstpage

1086

Lastpage

1088

Abstract

A novel simple structure and wideband planar antenna is proposed. The antenna is in form of a rectangular copper patch with one vertical slot and two transverse slots. The proposed antenna can be matched to the intrinsic impedance of an ordinary coaxial cable (50 Omega) without using parasitic elements or balun circuits. The experiment and simulation show that the proposed antenna is capable of providing an impedance bandwidth of up to 78% for the return loss of less than -10 dB, which is about 1.56 times as much as that of the rectangular copper patch antenna with only one vertical slot. The antenna resembles that of loop antenna with regard to the radiation characteristics.

Keywords

broadband antennas; loop antennas; microstrip antennas; planar antennas; impedance bandwidth; loop antenna; ordinary coaxial cable; rectangular copper patch antenna; resistance 50 ohm; wideband planar antenna; Bandwidth; Broadband antennas; Circuits; Coaxial cables; Copper; Dielectric substrates; Dipole antennas; Impedance matching; Planar arrays; Slot antennas; Antenna; planar antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology, 2008. ICMMT 2008. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1879-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1880-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMMT.2008.4540612

Filename

4540612