• DocumentCode
    1635061
  • Title

    Can ultrawideband antennas be miniaturized effectively by dielectric loading?

  • Author

    Shi, Yifei ; Amert, Anthony K. ; Whites, Keith W.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., South Dakota Sch. of Mines & Technol., Rapid City, SD, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    502
  • Lastpage
    505
  • Abstract
    A novel approach for miniaturization of disc monopole antennas is presented. The physical size of the antenna has been miniaturized by loading a dielectric material of high dielectric constant around the antenna in an intelligent manner. In order to maintain the impedance bandwidth characteristics, a spatial quarter wave transformer was applied. Simulations of the structure showed that the impedance bandwidth was conserved while the physical size of the structure was reduced by 58.4%.
  • Keywords
    dielectric materials; monopole antennas; ultra wideband antennas; dielectric loading; dielectric material; disc monopole antennas; high dielectric constant; impedance bandwidth characteristics; physical size; spatial quarter wave transformer; ultrawideband antennas; Bandwidth; Dielectrics; Impedance; Loaded antennas; Loading; Ultra wideband antennas;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC), 2012 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cape Town
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0404-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APWC.2012.6324924
  • Filename
    6324924