Design of directional antenna for cell phone detector for post disaster search and rescue

Author

Eldek, Abdelnasser A. ; Ali, Konpal Shaukat ; El-Hefnawi, F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

1-5 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A modified double rhombus antenna is designed to detect cell phones for post disaster search and rescue operations. The antenna consists of two rhombus shape dipoles with different size fed by microstrip line with a truncated ground plane which acts as reflector to produce end fire radiation. It was found that the directivity of the antenna depends mainly on the length and width of the dielectric substrate. Different configurations have been studied to obtain high directivity.

Keywords

cellular radio; directive antennas; microstrip antenna arrays; mobile antennas; cell phone detector; dielectric substrate; directional antenna; end fire radiation; microstrip line; modified double rhombus antenna; post disaster search-and-rescue; rhombus shape dipoles; Cellular phones; Design engineering; Detectors; Dielectric substrates; Dipole antennas; Directional antennas; Directive antennas; Jamming; Microstrip antennas; Transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2009. APSURSI '09. IEEE

Conference_Location

Charleston, SC

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3647-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2009.5172051

Filename

5172051