Title :
A compact super wideband monopole antenna
Author :
Ping Cao ; Yi Huang ; Jingwei Zhang ; Alrawashdeh, Rula
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Electron. Line, Univ. of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Abstract :
A novel compact Mickey-mouse shaped monopole antenna with super wideband (SWB) performance is presented. The proposed antenna consists of a radiating patch with a pair of ears and a top-corner rounded ground plane with a one-step staircase slot. In comparison to the conventional circular monopole structure, this configuration can achieve a much wider impedance bandwidth: in excess of 50:1 (from 2 to 100 GHz) for a return loss greater than 10 dB. In addition to the impedance, the radiation pattern and gain of the proposed antenna are also presented and discussed. This SWB prototype is implemented and the measured results are in good agreement with the simulated ones.
Keywords :
antenna radiation patterns; broadband antennas; monopole antennas; Mickey mouse shaped monopole antenna; SWB performance; SWB prototype; bandwidth 2 GHz to 100 GHz; circular monopole structure; compact super wideband monopole antenna; gain 10 dB; radiating patch; radiation gain; radiation pattern; rounded ground plane; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Bandwidth; Broadband antennas; Impedance; Monopole antennas; planar antennas; ultra wideband antennas;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2013 7th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Gothenburg
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2187-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-88-907018-1-8
