Investigation of dual and triple meander slot to microstrip patch antenna

Author

Abd Aziz, M.Z.A. ; Zakaria, Z. ; Husain, M.N. ; Zainuddin, N.A. ; Othman, M.A. ; Ahmad, B.H.

Author_Institution

Center for Telecommun. Res. & Innovation (CeTRI), Univ. Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM), Durian Tunggal, Malaysia

fYear

2013

fDate

17-18 April 2013

Firstpage

36

Lastpage

39

Abstract

A dual and triple microstrip meander slot antenna is presented for Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) application. The antenna also has the potential to be used as the receiving antenna in an energy harvesting system. The proposed antenna comprises a rectangular microstrip patch element embedded with meander slots. The parametric study is performed to investigate the characteristic of microstrip patch antenna with double meandered slots compared to the same microstrip patch antenna with triple meandered slots. Microstrip patch antenna with dual meander slot can achieve return loss until -24.54dB. However the gain of the antenna, 1.46 dBi is lower than microstrip patch antenna with triple meander slot which is 4.28 dBi. Other antenna parameters are also investigated such as bandwidth, radiation patterns and directivity have been observed and simulated. Measurement results are also recorded in this paper.

Keywords

energy harvesting; microstrip antennas; slot antennas; wireless LAN; WLAN application; antenna parameters; directivity; double meandered slots; dual mean slot microstrip patch antenna; dual meander slot; dual microstrip meander slot antenna; energy harvesting system; microstrip patch antenna; radiation patterns; receiving antenna; rectangular microstrip patch element; triple mean slot microstrip patch antenna; triple microstrip meander slot antenna; wireless local area network; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Microstrip; Microstrip antennas; Patch antennas; Slot antennas; WLAN; dual meander slot; energy harvesting; microstrip patch antenna; single meander slot;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Techniques (COMITE), 2013l Conference on

Conference_Location

Pardubice

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5512-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMITE.2013.6545039

Filename

6545039