Design and FDTD analysis of single-band and dual-band antennas for RFID and WiMAX applications

Author

Irfan, Nazish ; Yagoub, Mustapha C E ; Hettak, Khelifa

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci. (EECS), Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

fYear

2011

fDate

15-17 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, inset fed microstrip antennas for single band and dual-band operation are proposed. This design aims to achieve single band operation for RFID at 2.4 GHz as well as dual-band operation at 2.4 GHz for RFID and 3.5GHz for WiMAX applications. Simulation results exhibit a return loss of -27dB for single-band operation (2.4 GHz) while at and -20dB and -12.87dB for 2.4GHz and 3.5GHz (for dual-band) respectively. The Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) technique was used to analyze both antennas showing close agreement with the simulated results.

Keywords

UHF antennas; WiMax; antenna feeds; finite difference time-domain analysis; microstrip antennas; microwave antennas; radiofrequency identification; FDTD analysis; RFID; WiMax applications; dual-band antennas; finite difference time domain analysis; frequency 2.4 GHz; frequency 3.5 GHz; inset fed microstrip antennas; loss -12.87 dB; loss -20 dB; loss -27 dB; single-band antennas; Dual band; Finite difference methods; Microstrip; Microstrip antennas; Patch antennas; Time domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM), 2011 19th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Split

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1439-9

Type

conf

Filename

6064370