Dual-Band Printed Fractal Monopole Antenna for LTE Applications

Author

Lizzi, Leonardo ; Massa, Andrea

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Trento, Trento, Italy

Volume

10

fYear

2011

fDate

7/3/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

760

Lastpage

763

Abstract

In this letter, a dual-band fractal monopole antenna suitable for Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard is proposed. The antenna geometry is based on a perturbed planar Sierpinski fractal shape, whose geometrical descriptors are determined by means of a particle swarm optimization (PSO). The optimized antenna exhibits a good impedance matching within the LTE bands at 700 and 2600 MHz as well as a 24% size reduction with respect to a standard quarter-wave resonant monopole. The efficiency of the proposed antenna is assessed by means of both simulations and measurements.

Keywords

Long Term Evolution; fractal antennas; impedance matching; microstrip antennas; monopole antennas; multifrequency antennas; particle swarm optimisation; planar antennas; LTE application; dual-band printed fractal monopole antenna geometry; frequency 700 MHz to 2600 MHz; geometrical descriptor; impedance matching; long term evolution; optimized antenna; particle swarm optimization; perturbed planar Sierpinski fractal shape; standard quarter wave resonant monopole; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Dual band; Fractals; Frequency measurement; Antenna synthesis; Long Term Evolution (LTE) applications; Sierpinski fractals; dual-band antennas;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1225

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LAWP.2011.2163051

Filename

5962348