Title :
Design of an Ultra Wideband Universal Serial Bus device mounted antenna
Author :
Pires, Nuno ; Letizia, Marco ; Maisenbacher, Achim
Author_Institution :
Inst. de Telecomun., Inst. Super. Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
Abstract :
The present paper reports on the simulation, construction and measurement of a planar Ultra Wideband (UWB) monopole antenna designed to operate inside a Universal Serial Bus (USB) dongle, aiming at usage in industrial applications. Inexpensive FR4 substrate with ¿r = 4.4 and 0.8 mm thickness was used and the antenna shape and dimensions fit in a common case. The built antenna prototype was tested inside a USB device case in free space and in a realistic antenna deployment scenario, with the dongle connected to a laptop computer. It was found that the designed antenna exhibits acceptable |S11| matching in the frequency range [2.5; 12] GHz, allowing its usage in UWB and other wireless services such as Bluetooth, LTE and IEEE 802.11.
Keywords :
monopole antennas; peripheral interfaces; ultra wideband antennas; Bluetooth; FR4 substrate; IEEE 802.11; LTE; USB device; antenna deployment scenario; antenna shape; industrial application; planar ultra wideband monopole antenna; ultra wideband device mounted antenna; universal serial bus device mounted antenna; wireless services; Antenna measurements; Construction industry; Frequency; Portable computers; Prototypes; Shape; Testing; Ultra wideband antennas; Ultra wideband technology; Universal Serial Bus;
Conference_Titel :
Antenna Technology (iWAT), 2010 International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Lisbon
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4883-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4885-2
DOI :
10.1109/IWAT.2010.5464928
