Miniaturized Dipole antenna using Koch fractal technique for wearable application

Author

Patel, Pragati ; Dwibedi, Krishna ; Poonkhuzhali, R. ; Thiripurasundari, D. ; Alex, Zachariah C.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Eng., VIT Univ., Vellore, India

fYear

2013

fDate

3-5 April 2013

Firstpage

734

Lastpage

737

Abstract

In this paper, Koch iteration Technique is applied to a Dipole antenna to get second iteration version of Koch fractal antenna. The performance properties of Koch fractal Dipole for 450MHZ have been primarily indicated to its fractal geometry. The Koch geometry is used to reduce the overall size of the antenna. The size of designed Antenna is reduced around 32% compared to conventional dipole at designed frequency. The Koch fractal antenna is designed, fabricated and characterized on a wearable (jeans) substrate. Simulations are done in CST MICROWAVE STUDIO.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; dipole antennas; fractal antennas; fractals; iterative methods; wearable antennas; CST MICROWAVE STUDIO; Koch fractal antenna; Koch fractal dipole; Koch geometry; Koch iteration Technique; dipole antenna; fractal geometry; frequency 450 MHz; jeans; second iteration version; wearable antenna; wearable substrate; Antenna measurements; Dipole antennas; Educational institutions; Fractal antennas; Fractals; Loss measurement; Dipole Antenna; Fractal geometry; Koch Fractal Dipole Antenna; Wearable Antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Signal Processing (ICCSP), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Melmaruvathur

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4865-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/iccsp.2013.6577153

Filename

6577153