The design of fractal antennas for UWB using MoM

Author

AlSabbagh, Haider M. ; Mahmood, Farhad E. ; Al-Rubaye, Saba ; Edwards, R.M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Basra, Basra, Iraq

fYear

2011

fDate

14-15 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper the fractal method is used to realize two novel antennas useful for Ultra Wideband Radio. Fractals have self-similarity, which lends them to simple replication and desirable space filling for current path maximisation in a given footprint. Candidate fractal antennas considered here are a modified Minkowski fractal and a Koch-Square loop fractal. Both antennas are optimized to operate within the FCC UWB mask with a -10 dB of reflection loss. Reasonable gain and broadside directivity are also achieved. The antennas were synthesised with the Method of Moments package 4NEC2X.

Keywords

fractal antennas; method of moments; ultra wideband antennas; ultra wideband communication; FCC UWB mask; Koch-Square loop fractal; MoM; UWB radio; broadside directivity; fractal antennas design; method of moment package 4NEC2X; modified Minkowski fractal; space filling; ultrawideband radio; Antenna radiation patterns; Fractals; Impedance; Moment methods; Resonant frequency; Fractal antennas; Impulse radio; MoM; UWB;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC), 2011 Loughborough

Conference_Location

Loughborough

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1014-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-1015-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LAPC.2011.6114094

Filename

6114094