Title :
Compact broadband monopole slot antenna for digital TV applications
Author :
Tsai, Chih-Yu ; Chen, Oscal T -C
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Nat. Chung Cheng Univ., Chiayi, Taiwan
Abstract :
A miniaturized monopole slot antenna is proposed to realize digital TV applications. This antenna is designed with the feed-in space and straight gap to effectively establish a wide bandwidth. However, in order to minimize an antenna size, a pair of slot lines is properly adopted to accomplish good impedance matching at the Ultra High Frequency (UHF) band. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed antenna can operate at the frequency band from 460 MHz to 1000 MHz in which VSWR is smaller than 2. The measured radiation patterns look like circles and eights. Particularly, the proposed antenna has gains ranging from 1.1 to 2.4dBi. Therefore, the proposed antenna has a wide impedance-matching bandwidth, good radiation patterns and fairly high gains for digital TV applications.
Keywords :
UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; broadband antennas; digital television; impedance matching; monopole antennas; slot antennas; slot lines; UHF band; antenna radiation patterns; compact broadband monopole slot antenna; digital TV; frequency 460 MHz to 1000 MHz; impedance-matching bandwidth; miniaturized monopole slot antenna; slot lines; ultrahigh frequency band; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Digital TV; Dipole antennas; Slot antennas; UHF antennas; coplanar waveguides; digital TV; monopole antennas; monopole slot antennas;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation (APCAP), 2012 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on
Conference_Location :
Singapore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0666-9
DOI :
10.1109/APCAP.2012.6333140
