Investigation of meander slots to microstrip patch patch antenna

Author

Zainuddin, N.A. ; Zakaria, Z. ; Abd Aziz, M.Z. ; Husain, M.N. ; Mutalib, M.A.

Author_Institution

Centre of Telecommun. Res. & Innovation (CeTRI), Univ. Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM), Durian Tunggal, Malaysia

fYear

2013

fDate

4-5 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Microstrip slotted meander line antenna with a diverse number of meander slots is presented for 2.4 GHz of Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) application. The proposed antenna comprises a rectangular microstrip patch element embedded with several numbers of meander slots in many positions. The parametric study is performed to investigate the characteristic of these microstrip patch antennas with different numbers of meandered slots. Many designs of slotted meander line antenna are produced and they are analyzed based on the number of slotted meander line used. Antenna with 7 slotted meander lines has the most size reduction of approximately 23% of the original size. This study is an early investigation in designing the RF energy harvesting to support green technology and sustainable development particularly for Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) as well as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) applications.

Keywords

UHF antennas; energy harvesting; microstrip antennas; radiofrequency identification; slot antennas; slot lines; wireless LAN; wireless sensor networks; RF energy harvesting; RFID applications; WLAN application; frequency 2.4 GHz; meander slots; microstrip patch patch antenna; microstrip slotted meander line antenna; radio frequency identification applications; rectangular microstrip patch element; wireless local area network application; wireless sensor network; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Loss measurement; Microstrip; Microstrip antennas; Patch antennas; Slot antennas; CST Studio Suite 2010; Slotted meander line antenna; bandwidth; microstrip patch; return loss;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Johor Bahru

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4799-2114-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694524

Filename

6694524