Ultra-wideband antenna with tunable Artificial Magnetic Conductor

Author

Dewan, R. ; Rahim, M.K.A. ; Hamid, M.R. ; Majid, H.A. ; Yusoff, M.F.M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun. Eng., Univ. Teknol. Malaysia, Skudai, Malaysia

fYear

2014

fDate

2-5 Dec. 2014

Firstpage

105

Lastpage

106

Abstract

This paper presents a tunable Artificial Magnetic Conductor (AMC) unit cell design by means of four copper strips. With the inclusion of copper strips, the initial reflection phase of dual band AMC changes from 2.45 GHz and 5.8 GHz to single frequency of 3 GHz. To facilitate the tunable function on antenna performance, an Ultra-Wideband (UWB) antenna has been designed and analyzed. Performance comparison is carried out with and without incorporation of AMC. The AMC is tuned to change frequency using copper strips. Result in terms of reflection phase, return loss and radiation pattern are discussed.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; microstrip antennas; multifrequency antennas; ultra wideband antennas; UWB antenna; copper strip; dual band AMC unit cell design; frequency 2.45 GHz; frequency 3 GHz; frequency 5.8 GHz; initial reflection phase; radiation pattern; reflection phase; return loss; tunable artificial magnetic conductor; ultra wideband antenna; Decision support systems; AMC; Antenna; copper strips; tunable;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (ISAP), 2014 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kaohsiung

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISANP.2014.7026552

Filename

7026552