Title :
Conductor backed CPW fed antenna for 2.4 GHz WLAN applications
Author :
George, A. ; Nakkeeran, R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Pondicherry Univ., Pondicherry, India
Abstract :
This paper proposes a conductor backed coplanar waveguide (CB-CPW) fed antenna for wireless local area network (WLAN) applications. CB-CPW design not only provides mechanical support to the substrate but also acts as a heat sink for circuit with active devices. The antenna operates in the industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) frequency band (2.4 to 2.480 GHz) and the return loss value is well below -10 dB throughout the operating region. It is designed on a flame retardant woven glass reinforced epoxy resin (FR4) substrate having dimensions 20×20×1.6 mm3. The proposed design has reduced total area by 75 percentage with respect to the previous similar antenna.
Keywords :
UHF antennas; antenna feeds; antenna radiation patterns; coplanar waveguides; microstrip antennas; wireless LAN; CB-CPW fed antenna; FR4 substrate; ISM frequency band; WLAN applications; conductor backed coplanar waveguide fed antenna; flame retardant woven glass reinforced epoxy resin substrate; frequency 2.4 GHz to 2.480 GHz; heat sink; industrial scientific and medical frequency band; wireless local area network applications; Antenna radiation patterns; Coplanar waveguides; Gain; Substrates; Wireless LAN; Wireless communication; CPW fed antenna; Return loss; VSWR; WLAN applications;
Conference_Titel :
Green Computing, Communication and Conservation of Energy (ICGCE), 2013 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chennai
DOI :
10.1109/ICGCE.2013.6823410
