Applications of Electromagnetic Bandgap (EBG) Structures for Novel Communication Antenna Designs

Author

Lee, Yoonjae ; Hao, Yang ; Parini, Clive

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., London Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

10-15 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

1056

Lastpage

1059

Abstract

We present new design approaches using electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) structures to realize novel antennas for wireless communications. In order to demonstrate the advantages of new designs, we consider a couple of target applications and design goals. We demonstrate the improvement of the efficiency of on-body antennas and reduction of mutual coupling for MIMO arrays. The design is accomplished by optimizing the structure via genetic algorithm (GA) for the desired performances over the intended frequency bands. The results presented in this work demonstrate the possibilities of the EBG structures for improving the performances of the conventional antennas

Keywords

MIMO communication; antenna arrays; genetic algorithms; mobile antennas; photonic band gap; EBG structures; MIMO arrays; communication antenna designs; electromagnetic bandgap structures; genetic algorithm; on-body antennas; wireless communications; Algorithm design and analysis; Antenna arrays; Design optimization; Frequency; Genetic algorithms; MIMO; Metamaterials; Mutual coupling; Periodic structures; Wireless communication; AMC; EBG; antennas; array; genetic algorithm; mutual coupling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2006. 36th European

Conference_Location

Manchester

Print_ISBN

2-9600551-6-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EUMC.2006.281115

Filename

4058005