A modified dipole Quasi-Yagi antenna to increase directivity and gain for WLAN application

Author

Goh Tian Hock ; Goh Chin Hock ; Ghafil, Sura Fawzi ; Chakrabarty, Chandan ; Ismail, Rafidah

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Univ. Tenaga Nasional, Kajang, Malaysia

fYear

2014

Firstpage

222

Lastpage

225

Abstract

WLAN network is the most popular wireless network used for various electronic devices to exchange data. Electronic devices such as smart phone, laptop, printer, digital camera and smart TV are using the Wi-Fi antenna to exchange data wirelessly. However most of the Wi-Fi antenna is isotropic antennas which transmit and receive Wi-Fi signal omnidirectional. According to current IEEE 802.11n standard, omnidirectional Wi-Fi antenna has limitation to reach 250m maximum due to its low directivity. In this paper, a Quasi-Yagi antenna has been built to enhance antenna gain and directivity.

Keywords

Yagi antenna arrays; dipole antennas; directive antennas; omnidirectional antennas; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11n standard; WLAN network; Wi-Fi signal; antenna directivity; antenna gain; dipole quasi-Yagi antenna; electronic device; isotropic antennas; omnidirectional Wi-Fi antenna; wireless data exchange; wireless network; Antenna measurements; Cutoff frequency; Dipole antennas; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Microstrip antennas; 802.11n; Quasi-Yagi; WLAN; Wi-Fi: omnidirectional;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy (PECon), 2014 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-7296-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PECON.2014.7062445

Filename

7062445