The effect of conductor line to meander line antenna design

Author

Misman, D. ; Salamat, I.A. ; Abdul Kadir, M.F. ; Rose, M. R Che ; Mohd Shah, M. S R ; Aziz, M.Z.A. ; Husain, M.N. ; Soh, P.J.

Author_Institution

Fakulti Kejuruteraan Elektron. dan Kejuruteraan Komputer, Univ. Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka

fYear

2008

fDate

17-18 March 2008

Firstpage

441

Lastpage

444

Abstract

In this paper, the meander line antenna (MLA) have been designed to operate at 2.4-GHz for WLAN application. Two different designs of meander line antenna are investigated, without conductor line and with conductor line. Microwave Office software is used for simulation designed 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

etching; microstrip antennas; printed circuits; wireless LAN; conductor line effect; double-sided FR-4 printed circuit board; etching technique; frequency 152 MHz; frequency 2.4 GHz; meander line microstrip antenna design; wireless LAN application; 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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Conference, 2008. LAPC 2008. Loughborough

Conference_Location

Loughborough

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1893-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1894-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LAPC.2008.4516961

Filename

4516961