A flexible low cost fractal-slot multiband antenna for wireless applications

Author

Ahmed, Sana ; Tahir, Farooq A. ; Cheema, Hammad M.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Nat. Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Islamabad, Pakistan

fYear

2015

fDate

13-17 April 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A Koch fractal slot multiband antenna designed on polyimide-based flexible substrate is proposed in this paper. By cutting a Koch snowflake slot in the circular monopole, multiband characteristics are achieved. The impedance bandwidths of the proposed antenna are 55.39 % for first band (0.77 - 1.36 GHz), 29.50 % for second band (1.85 - 2.49 GHz) and 35.3 % for third band (2.80 - 4.00 GHz) with maximum gains of 1.25 dBi, 1.54 dBi and 2.23 dBi respectively. The antenna size is 115 × 90 mm². This design is suitable for flexible mobile devices having relatively omnidirectional coverage of GSM 850/900/1900, UMTS, 2.4 GHz WLAN, ISM & Bluetooth, LTE 2300 and WiMAX bands.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; Bluetooth; Long Term Evolution; WiMax; cellular radio; fractal antennas; mobile antennas; multifrequency antennas; omnidirectional antennas; slot antennas; wireless LAN; Bluetooth; GSM; ISM bands; Koch fractal slot multiband antenna; Koch snowflake slot; LTE; Long Term Evolution; UMTS; WLAN; WiMAX bands; circular monopole; flexible low cost multiband antenna; flexible mobile devices; frequency 0.77 GHz to 1.36 GHz; frequency 1.85 GHz to 2.49 GHz; frequency 2.80 GHz to 4.00 GHz; impedance bandwidths; omnidirectional coverage; polyimide-based flexible substrate; size 115 mm; size 90 mm; Antenna radiation patterns; Fractals; GSM; Resonant frequency; Substrates; Wireless LAN; Kapton; Koch snowflake; flexible multiband antenna; mobile devices; printed antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2015 9th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Type

conf

Filename

7228909