David fractal antenna for multiband wireless communication

Author

Abraham, Jibi ; Mathew, Tojo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Univ. Coll. of Appl. Sci., Edapally, India

fYear

2014

fDate

19-21 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

15

Lastpage

19

Abstract

Modern telecommunication systems require antennas with multiband characteristics and smaller dimensions that support multiple wireless applications. In this paper, a hexagon shaped microstrip patch antenna is presented, that works at 1.8 GHz. Fractal concept is introduced in to the hexagon shape for miniaturization and multiband characteristics. Here David hexagon fractal concept is used to convert the hexagon shaped patch to a dual band antenna which produces multiple resonances at 1.8 GHz and 3.4 GHz. The antenna is suitable for cellular communication and Wi-max applications. Size reduction up to 18.3% in terms of patch size is achieved in the proposed fractal antenna in comparison to hexagon patch operating in the first resonant frequency band.

Keywords

UHF antennas; WiMax; cellular radio; fractal antennas; microstrip antennas; mobile antennas; multifrequency antennas; David hexagon fractal antenna miniaturization; WiMax application; cellular communication; dual band antenna; frequency 1.8 GHz; frequency 3.4 GHz; hexagon shaped microstrip patch antenna; multiband wireless communication; patch size reduction; resonant frequency band; Antenna measurements; Fractal antennas; Fractals; Microstrip; Microstrip antennas; Patch antennas; David fractal; hexagon patch; multibandantenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic Design (ICED), 2014 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Penang

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICED.2014.7015763

Filename

7015763