Microstripline-coupled printed wide-slot antenna with loop loadings for dual-band WiMAX/WLAN operations

Author

Ucar, Mustafa H. B. ; Erdemli, Yunus E.

Author_Institution

Electron. & Comput. Educ. Dept., Kocaeli Univ., Kocaeli, Turkey

fYear

2012

fDate

8-14 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

A microstripline-coupled printed wide-slot antenna with loop loadings is presented for WiMAX/WLAN applications. The proposed compact antenna has a planar size of 38 × 39 mm². The antenna is comprised of a stepped microstrip feedline along with strip loadings which are coupled to a pair of concentric rectangular loop elements inserted in the center of a slotted ground plane. The slot antenna alone shows wideband S₁₁ performance (2.1-6.8 GHz). By inclusion of the loops, the antenna exhibits a dual-band (2-4 GHz / 5.1-5.95 GHz) operation where undesired bands around 4.5 GHz and 6.1 GHz are rejected, thus covering the assigned bands for WiMAX and WLAN operations. The numerical design results are presented in the paper.

Keywords

UHF antennas; WiMax; antenna feeds; loop antennas; microstrip antennas; microstrip lines; multifrequency antennas; slot antennas; wireless LAN; concentric rectangular loop elements; dual-band WiMAX-WLAN operations; frequency 2.1 GHz to 6.8 GHz; loop loadings; microstrip line-coupled printed wide-slot antenna; slotted ground plane; stepped microstrip feedline; strip loadings; wideband S₁₁ performance; Microstrip; Microstrip antennas; Slot antennas; WiMAX; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0461-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2012.6348508

Filename

6348508