A Miniaturized UWB Antenna for Wireless Dongle Devices

Author

Viani, Federico ; Lizzi, Leonardo ; Azaro, Renzo ; Massa, Andrea

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Univ. of Trento, Trento

Volume

7

fYear

2008

fDate

6/30/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

714

Lastpage

1

Abstract

In this letter, a planar ultra wideband (UWB) antenna suitable for the integration in wireless universal serial bus (USB) dongles is described. The antenna has a bandwidth equal to 2 GHz from 3 GHz up to 5 GHz with return loss values below -10 dB in the whole frequency range. To comply with UWB system needs, the antenna presents good distortionless properties when employed in a TX/RX system. Moreover, thanks to its simple shape and miniaturized geometry, the proposed prototype can be easily integrated and printed on dongle PCBs. In order to assess the reliability and efficiency of the antenna, a selected set of results from the experimental validation are shown and compared with the outcomes of the numerical simulations carried out during the synthesis process.

Keywords

UHF antennas; numerical analysis; peripheral interfaces; planar antennas; printed circuits; ultra wideband antennas; TX/RX system; bandwidth 2 GHz; distortionless properties; dongle PCB; miniaturized UWB antenna; numerical simulations; planar ultra wideband antenna; wireless dongle devices; wireless universal serial bus dongles; Miniaturized antenna; ultrawideband (UWB) antenna; wireless USB dongle application;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1225

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LAWP.2008.2002904

Filename

4663509