A quad-band hybrid fractal antenna for wireless applications

Author

Kumar, Yadwinder ; Singh, Surinder

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun., Punjabi Univ. Regional Campus, Talwandi Sabo, India

fYear

2015

fDate

12-13 June 2015

Firstpage

730

Lastpage

733

Abstract

Hybrid fractal multiband antenna is designed using Koch and meander geometry and its characteristics are investigated. The proposed antenna helps to achieve multiband behavior due to its multiple resonance characteristics. It has planar structure, compact size and suitable for wireless applications. IFS approach has been used to obtain the hybrid structure using MATLAB and scripting method of HFSS. Perturbation of basic structure is done to achieve quad-band behavior. Proposed antenna resonates at four different frequencies including Bluetooth (2.12-2.95 GHz), WLAN (4.82-5.95 GHz), 4.07 GHz and 7.3 GHz. It is a low cost antenna designed on easily available FR4 substrate. It exhibits nearly omnidirectional radiation pattern and VSWR ≤ 2 for all resonating frequencies.

Keywords

Bluetooth; UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; fractal antennas; microwave antennas; multifrequency antennas; omnidirectional antennas; planar antennas; wireless LAN; Bluetooth; FR4 substrate; HFSS scripting method; IFS approach; Koch-meander geometry; WLAN; frequency 2.12 GHz to 2.95 GHz; frequency 4.82 GHz to 5.95 GHz; hybrid fractal multiband antenna; multiple resonance characteristic; omnidirectional radiation pattern; planar structure; quadband hybrid fractal antenna; wireless application; Antenna radiation patterns; Fractal antennas; Fractals; Microstrip antennas; Resonant frequency; Hybrid Fractal Antenna; IFS; Multiband; Perturbation; VB Script;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advance Computing Conference (IACC), 2015 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Banglore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-8046-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IADCC.2015.7154803

Filename

7154803