Development of Compact Monopole Antenna for UWB Applications

Author

Coumar, S. Oudaya ; Nakkeeran, R. ; Ashwath, G.

Author_Institution

Sri Manakula Vinayagar Eng. Coll., Puducherry, India

fYear

2012

fDate

26-28 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this Paper, A Compact Monopole Antenna for UWB Applications is presented. The proposed antenna has an overall size of 25 × 30 × 1.6 mm³. The proposed antenna has a VSWR of well below 2 in the operating range (1.8-10.6) GHz. The radiation pattern of the proposed antenna is bi-directional in H plane and uni-directional in E plane suitable for indoor application purpose. The simulation results demonstrate that the -10dB impedance bandwidth is from 1.8 GHz to 10.6 GHz, which meets the UWB range (3.1-10.6) GHz. The antenna design utilizes symmetrical triangle to achieve broad impedance bandwidth. This antenna configuration would be quite useful for UWB indoor applications. The proposed antenna has been designed and its characteristics such as return loss, VSWR and radiation pattern are analysed using Ansoft HFSS (High Frequency Structured Simulator).

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; monopole antennas; ultra wideband antennas; Ansoft HFSS; E plane; H plane; UWB applications; UWB indoor applications; VSWR; antenna configuration; antenna design; broad impedance bandwidth; compact monopole antenna; frequency 1.8 GHz to 10.6 GHz; high frequency structured simulator; radiation pattern; Antenna feeds; Bandwidth; Bidirectional control; Broadband antennas; Silicon; Ultra wideband (UWB); radiation pattern; return loss; voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computing Communication & Networking Technologies (ICCCNT), 2012 Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Coimbatore

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCNT.2012.6395932

Filename

6395932