• DocumentCode
    1427226
  • Title

    A Small Broadband Folded-Loop Antenna With Disk-Loaded Monopole

  • Author

    Hsieh, Wang-Ta ; Kiang, Jean-Fu

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
  • Volume
    9
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    7/2/1905 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1248
  • Lastpage
    1250
  • Abstract
    A small broadband folded-loop antenna with a disk-loaded monopole is designed and measured. Its size is 0.08 λ × 0.1 λ × 0.1 λ at the center frequency of 1.5 GHz. The measured fractional bandwidth is 11.2% with the voltage standing-wave ratio (VSWR) less than 2. It has an omnidirectional radiation pattern of vertical polarization in the horizontal plane.
  • Keywords
    UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; broadband antennas; loop antennas; monopole antennas; polarisation; UHF antennas; broadband folded-loop antenna; disk-loaded monopole; frequency 1.5 GHz; omnidirectional radiation pattern; vertical polarization; voltage standing-wave ratio; Broadband; disk-loaded monopole; fold-loop; small antenna;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1536-1225
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LAWP.2011.2106476
  • Filename
    5688278