Title :
Wideband Printed Microstrip Antenna for Wireless Communications
Author :
Sarin, V.P. ; Nassar, Nisha ; Deepu, V. ; Aanandan, C.K. ; Mohanan, P. ; Vasudevan, Kesavath
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron., Cochin Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kochi, India
fDate :
7/1/1905 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A simple electromagnetically coupled wideband printed microstrip antenna having a 2:1 VSWR bandwidth of 38% covering the 5.2/5.8-GHz WLAN, HIPERLAN2, and HiSWANa communication bands is presented. The large bandwidth is obtained by adding a rectangular metal strip on a slotted square microstrip antenna. The antenna occupies an overall dimension of 42 times 55 times 3.2 mm3 when printed on a substrate of dielectric constant 4. It exhibits good radiation characteristics and moderate gain in the entire operating band. Details of the design along with experimental and simulation results are presented and discussed.
Keywords :
antenna radiation patterns; broadband antennas; microstrip antennas; radio networks; slot antennas; HIPERLAN2; VSWR bandwidth; WLAN; dielectric constant; frequency 5.2 GHz; frequency 5.8 GHz; rectangular metal strip; slotted square microstrip antenna; wideband printed microstrip antenna; wireless communication; 5.2/5.8-GHz WLAN; HiSWANa; broadband microstrip antenna; wideband antennas;
Journal_Title :
Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LAWP.2009.2026193
