Inverted U-shaped Dielectric resonator antenna for WLAN

Author

Mahender, P. ; Natarajamani, S. ; Behera, S.K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun., Nat. Inst. of Technol., Rourkela, India

fYear

2010

Firstpage

9

Lastpage

11

Abstract

A Dielectric resonator antenna design is presented for Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) applications. By using a dielectric resonator with an inverted U-shape cross section and optimized rectangular patch adhered in between the dielectric resonator as a feeding mechanism, an impedance bandwidth of about 15.7% and covering a frequency range of 5.1 to 5.97 GHz is achieved and resonating at 5.5 GHz. The proposed antenna is suitable for wireless local area networks (WLAN) applications in 5-6 GHz frequency range. This U Shaped DRA exceeds the bandwidth requirements for the IEEE 802.11a wireless local area network (WLAN) applications (5.15-5.35 GHz and 5.725-5.825 GHz) within a 2:1 VSWR. Parametric studies of the antennas with CST microwave based design data and simulated results are presented here.

Keywords

microstrip antennas; microwave antennas; resonators; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11; VSWR; WLAN; dielectric resonator antenna design; frequency 5.1 GHz to 5.97 GHz; inverted U-shaped dielectric resonator antenna; optimized rectangular patch; wireless local area network; Dielectrics; Resonant frequency; Dielectric resonator antenna (DRA); Inverted Ushaped cross section; WLAN; rectangular patch;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Control and Computing Technologies (ICCCCT), 2010 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ramanathapuram

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7769-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCCT.2010.5670788

Filename

5670788