Ultra wide band CPW-fed printed pentagonal antenna with modified ground plane for UWB applications

Author

Shrivastava, V. ; Ranga, Y.

Author_Institution

Flomerics India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore

fYear

2008

fDate

11-12 Jan. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

In this paper, we present a novel coplanar waveguide (CPW) fed printed pentagonal monopole antenna for ultra wideband communications. The antenna is fabricated on a 1.59 mm thick FR-4 (relative permittivity of 4.4) substrate. The antenna structure is analyzed using a transmission line matrix (TLM) method based Flomerics Micro-Stripes (version 7.5). The measured 10 dB return loss impedance bandwidth of the fabricated antenna is approximately 8.16:1. The fabricated antenna exhibits omni-directional radiation pattern and the measured results show a good agreement with the simulated one. It has been demonstrated numerically and experimentally that this antenna is suitable for ultra-wideband (UWB)/ IEEE 802.16a applications.

Keywords

antenna feeds; antenna radiation patterns; coplanar waveguides; microstrip antennas; transmission line matrix methods; ultra wideband antennas; ultra wideband communication; UWB applications; antenna structure; coplanar waveguide antenna; flomerics microstripes; loss 10 dB; modified ground plane; omnidirectional radiation pattern; return loss impedance bandwidth; transmission line matrix method; ultrawideband CPW-fed printed pentagonal antenna; ultrawideband-IEEE 802.16a applications;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, 2008. IET International Conference on

Conference_Location

Mumbai

ISSN

0537-9989

Print_ISBN

978-0-86341-887-7

Type

conf

Filename

4470060