A new patch antenna for ultra wide band communication applications

<span>A printed monopole patch Ultra Wide Band (UWB) antenna for use in UWB application is proposed in this paper. The proposed antenna consists of a patch with appropriate dimensions on one side of a dielectric substrate, and a partial ground plane on the other side of the substrate. The techniques that used to enhance the bandwidth are the partial ground plane, feed point position and adjusted feed gap. The substrate that is used in the proposed antenna is Fr4 epoxy, the optimum dimensions of the antenna are 40mm×28mm×1.5mm this antenna designed by HFSS program. The band achieved by the proposed antenna is from 3.6GHz to 15GHz. This antenna is fabricated in the ministry of science and technology Baghdad-Iraq and a good agreement between simulation and measured S11 is achieved. </span>

A Dual-Broadband Printed Dipole Antenna for 2G/3G/4G Base Station Applications

A new dual-broadband printed dipole antenna for base station applications is proposed in this communication. This antenna has three different dipoles with the same feed point and an extra parasitic strip. The two arms of the three dipoles are printed on opposite sides of the substrate and symmetrical on the centerline, but the parasitic strip at the end of the dipole is just put on one side. Besides, a U-shaped reflector is designed at the bottom of the antenna to realize good radiation characteristics in the working frequency. The simulated and measured results show good agreement. The two studied bands are both broadened which, respectively, achieve 36.7% (690–1000MHz) and 47.3% (1710–2770MHz) for the lower and higher bands so as to satisfy the 2G/3G/4G wireless communication, and the corresponding gains of 4-5dBi and 5-6dBi are also obtained.

Design and Analysis of Ultra Low-Profile ILA on a Rectangular Conducting Plane

The unbalanced fed ultra low profile inverted L antenna on a rectangular conducting plane is proposed and analyzed numerically and experimentally. By adjusting the length and height of inverted L antenna, the feed point position, and the size of conducting plane, the return loss bandwidth and the directivity can be controlled. The return loss bandwidth of 2.57 % and the directivity of 4.34 dBi are obtained, when the size of conducting plane is 0.245  (: wavelength) by 0.49 , and the antenna height is /30. The input impedance of the proposed antenna is compared with those of the conventional base-fed inverted L antenna and the base fed inverted F antenna. Although the directivity of base-fed inverted L antenna is almost same as that of proposed antenna, its input resistance becomes very low. In the base fed inverted F antenna, the return loss larger than 10 dB is not satisfied in the case of the antenna height less than 0.05 .

Design of a T-Shaped Antenna Based on Characteristic Mode Manipulation for Metal-Framed Handset Application

Recently, metal-framed handset antennas have aroused much attention due to their fantastic appearance and superior robustness. In this paper, a T-shaped antenna suitable for integration with a USB connector is proposed for metal-framed handset application by utilizing the theory of characteristic modes (TCM). Five eigenmodes, one for the lower band and four for the higher band, were merged by a T-shaped metal frame, a feed point, and two shorting pins, as well as three radio frequency (RF) switches so as to broaden the antenna’s operating bandwidth. A prototype was fabricated in order to verify the design concept. Experimental results showed that the proposed antenna was able to cover bandwidths of 0.824–0.960 GHz (GSM band) and 1.710–2.690 GHz (DCS, PCS, UMTS, and LTE bands) with an acceptable radiation efficiency of up to 50% and satisfactory radiation patterns.

Tradeoffs in the feed point selection of a cylindrical dielectric resonator antenna

This paper aims at investigating the dependence of the impedance and the radiation characteristics of a cylindrical dielectric resonator antenna (DRA), on the feed point of the DRA. It is demonstrated that the resonant frequency, bandwidth, radiation pattern symmetry, and cross-polarized radiation levels depend highly on the feed point. Three standard single-ended feed mechanisms such as the microstrip line, the microstrip slot, and the coaxial probe are taken as examples, to demonstrate the feed-point dependence of the DRA performance. Standard commercial EM simulation tools (ANSYS HFSS and CST Microwave Studio) are used for generating insightful results to help the discussion. This analysis also provides a functional comparison among the above said three feed mechanisms with respect to the feed-point dependence, which is further verified through measurements of DRA prototypes employing the three feeds.