Title :
The Study of Different Impedance Meander Line for Microstrip Antenna Design
Author :
Misman, D. ; Husain, M.N. ; Aziz, M. Z A Abd ; Salamat, I.A. ; Kadir, M. F Abdul ; Rose, M. R Che ; Shah, M. S R Mohd ; Soh, P.J.
Author_Institution :
Fakulti Kejuruteraan Elektron. dan Kejuruteraan Komputer, Univ. Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Ayer Keroh
Abstract :
In this paper, the meander line antenna (MLA) have been designed to operate at 2.4-GHz for WLAN application. Two different designs of meander line antenna are investigated, without conductor line and with conductor line. Microwave Office software is used for simulation designed process. The antenna is fabricated on a double-sided FR-4 printed circuit board using an etching technique. Then the design has been tested with the Advantest Network Analyzer. The comparison between simulation and measurement results for the return loss and radiation patterns were presented. A bandwidth of 80 MHz and return loss of -37.7 dB were obtained at frequency 2.4 GHz. The gain is comparable to microstrip yagi antenna.
Keywords :
microstrip antennas; telecommunication computing; wireless LAN; Advantest Network Analyzer; Microwave Office software; WLAN; bandwidth 80 MHz; double-sided FR-4 printed circuit board; etching technique; frequency 2.4 GHz; impedance meander line; loss -37.7 dB; meander line antenna; microstrip antenna design; radiation patterns; return loss; Application software; Circuit simulation; Circuit testing; Conductors; Etching; Impedance; Microstrip antennas; Printed circuits; Process design; Wireless LAN; Meander; meander line antenna; microstrip antenna; wireless LAN;
Conference_Titel :
Telecommunication Technologies 2008 and 2008 2nd Malaysia Conference on Photonics. NCTT-MCP 2008. 6th National Conference on
Conference_Location :
Putrajaya
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2214-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2215-9
DOI :
10.1109/NCTT.2008.4814252
