A Compact Monopole Antenna for Super Wideband Applications

Author

Chen, Ke-Ren ; Sim, Chow-Yen-Desmond ; Row, Jeen-Sheen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chung Chou Inst. of Technol., Yuanlin, Taiwan

Volume

10

fYear

2011

fDate

7/3/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

488

Lastpage

491

Abstract

A planar microstrip-fed super wideband monopole antenna is initially proposed. By embedding a semielliptically fractal-complementary slot into the asymmetrical ground plane, a 10-dB bandwidth of 172% (1.44-18.8 GHz) is achieved with ratio bandwidth >;12:1. Furthermore, the proposed antenna also demonstrated a wide 14-dB bandwidth from 5.4 to 12.5 GHz, which is suitable for UWB outdoor propagation. This proposed antenna is able to cover the DVB-H in L-band (for PMP), DCS, PCS, UMTS, Bluetooth, WiMAX2500, LTE2600, and UWB bands.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna feeds; digital video broadcasting; microstrip antennas; monopole antennas; planar antennas; ultra wideband antennas; Bluetooth band; DCS band; DVB-H; L-band; LTE2600 band; PCS band; UMTS band; UWB band; UWB outdoor propagation; WiMAX2500 band; asymmetrical ground plane; compact monopole antenna; fractal-complementary slot; frequency 1.44 GHz to 18.8 GHz; planar microstrip-fed antenna; super-wideband applications; Antenna measurements; Fractals; Ultra wideband antennas; Wideband; Bandwidth dimension ratio (BDR); fractal-complementary; monopole antenna; super wideband (SWB);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1225

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LAWP.2011.2157071

Filename

5771532