Title :
Compact printed dipole antenna with folding element for 2.4 Ghz WLAN communications
Author :
Zhang, Beidou ; Gao, Guoping ; Lin, Dongmei
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Atmos. Sci., Lanzhou Univ., Lanzhou, China
Abstract :
A novel printed dipole antenna suitable for 2.4 GHz WLAN application is presented and investigated in this paper. A folding structure in the end of dipole antenna is designed so that the antenna length has a reduction of 46.43 % compared to traditional printed dipole antenna. The effects of some important parameters on the return loss of the proposed antenna have been investigated. In order to operate as WLAN device, the printed dipole antenna should be characterized by a low profile and cover the operation bandwidth of the 2.400-2.484 GHz. The radiation pattern is similar to those conventional dipole antennas and the measured gain variation is less than 0.3dBi.
Keywords :
UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; dipole antennas; microstrip antennas; wireless LAN; WLAN communication; antenna length reduction; compact printed dipole antenna; folding element; frequency 2.400 GHz to 2.484 GHz; radiation pattern; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Bandwidth; Dipole antennas; Loss measurement; Wireless LAN; Printed dipole antenna; wireless local area network;
Conference_Titel :
Signal Processing, Communication and Computing (ICSPCC), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2192-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICSPCC.2012.6335643
