Pattern reconfigurable Ultra Wideband thin antenna

Author

Shobanasree, R. ; Radha, S. ; Rao, Patnam

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun., Sri Siva Subramaniya Nadar Coll. of Eng., Chennai, India

fYear

2012

fDate

26-28 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

An Ultra Wideband (UWB) monopole antenna on a shaped ground plane is presented. This compact and thin antenna operates from 3.1 to 10.6 GHz. The radiating element is created by stitching the conductive thread instead of the copper metallization. The ground plane is created by using a Liquid Crystal Polymer (LCP)material(ε _r=2.9). The substrate of the designed antenna is made from jeans fabric (ε _r=1.7) while the radiating element is made from stainless steel coated conductive thread. By changing the shaped ground, the direction of the radiation pattern can be changed. Radiation pattern is steered over an angle of 60 degrees on the both the sides of beam pointing angle.

Keywords

metallisation; monopole antennas; stainless steel; ultra wideband antennas; ultra wideband communication; LCP material; antenna radiation pattern; beam pointing angle; copper metallization; designed antenna; liquid crystal polymer; pattern reconfigurable ultrawideband thin antenna; stainless steel coated conductive thread; thin antenna; ultraband monopole antenna; Crystals; Electronic mail; Foot; Transmitting antennas; Ultra wideband antennas; LCP; Wearable antenna; monopole; shaped ground plane;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computing Communication & Networking Technologies (ICCCNT), 2012 Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Coimbatore

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCNT.2012.6395996

Filename

6395996