Title :
Investigation of meander slots to microstrip patch patch antenna
Author :
Zainuddin, N.A. ; Zakaria, Z. ; Abd Aziz, M.Z. ; Husain, M.N. ; Mutalib, M.A.
Author_Institution :
Centre of Telecommun. Res. & Innovation (CeTRI), Univ. Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM), Durian Tunggal, Malaysia
Abstract :
Microstrip slotted meander line antenna with a diverse number of meander slots is presented for 2.4 GHz of Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) application. The proposed antenna comprises a rectangular microstrip patch element embedded with several numbers of meander slots in many positions. The parametric study is performed to investigate the characteristic of these microstrip patch antennas with different numbers of meandered slots. Many designs of slotted meander line antenna are produced and they are analyzed based on the number of slotted meander line used. Antenna with 7 slotted meander lines has the most size reduction of approximately 23% of the original size. This study is an early investigation in designing the RF energy harvesting to support green technology and sustainable development particularly for Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) as well as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) applications.
Keywords :
UHF antennas; energy harvesting; microstrip antennas; radiofrequency identification; slot antennas; slot lines; wireless LAN; wireless sensor networks; RF energy harvesting; RFID applications; WLAN application; frequency 2.4 GHz; meander slots; microstrip patch patch antenna; microstrip slotted meander line antenna; radio frequency identification applications; rectangular microstrip patch element; wireless local area network application; wireless sensor network; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Loss measurement; Microstrip; Microstrip antennas; Patch antennas; Slot antennas; CST Studio Suite 2010; Slotted meander line antenna; bandwidth; microstrip patch; return loss;
Conference_Titel :
RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Johor Bahru
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4799-2114-0
DOI :
10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694524
