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

fYear

2013

fDate

8-12 April 2013

Firstpage

3107

Lastpage

3110

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

Filename

6546880