Title :
The effect of conductor line to meander line antenna design
Author :
Misman, D. ; Salamat, I.A. ; Kadir, M.F.A. ; Rose, M. R Che ; Shah, M. S R Mohd ; Aziz, M. Z A Abd ; Husain, M.N.
Author_Institution :
Fak. Kejuruteraan Elektron. dan Kejuruteraan Komputer, Univ. Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Ayer Keroh
Abstract :
In this paper, the meander line antenna have been designed to operate at 2.4-GHz for WLAN application. Two different designs of meander line antenna are investigates, without conductor line and with conductor line. The Microwave Office software is used for simulation design process. The antenna is fabricated on a double-sided FR-4 printed circuit board using an etching technique. Then the design has been tested with the advantest network analyzer. The comparison between simulation and measurement results for the return loss and radiation patterns were presented. A bandwidth of 152 MHz and return loss of -37.7 dB were obtained at frequency 2.4 GHz. The gain is comparable to microstrip yagi antenna.
Keywords :
UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; antenna testing; etching; network analysers; printed circuits; wireless LAN; Microwave Office software; WLAN application; advantest network analyzer; bandwidth 152 MHz; conductor line; double-sided FR-4 printed circuit board; etching technique; frequency 2.4 GHz; meander line antenna; radiation patterns; Antenna measurements; Application software; Circuit simulation; Circuit testing; Conductors; Etching; Loss measurement; Printed circuits; Process design; Wireless LAN; Meander; meander line antenna; microstrip antenna; wireless LAN;
Conference_Titel :
Applied Electromagnetics, 2007. APACE 2007. Asia-Pacific Conference on
Conference_Location :
Melaka
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1434-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1435-2
DOI :
10.1109/APACE.2007.4603953
