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Semi Spiral G-shaped dual wideband Microstrip Antenna with Aperture feeding for WLAN/WiMAX/U-NII band applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2015

Amanpreet Kaur
Amanpreet Kaur*
Affiliation:
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Thapar University, Patiala 147004, India. Phone: +919815601313
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Corresponding author: A. Kaur, Email: amanpreet.kaur@thapar.edu
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Abstract

In this paper, a dual wideband microstrip antenna (MSA) has been presented for wireless local area networks (WLAN), worldwide interoperability for microwave access (Wi MaX) and U-NII band applications. The antenna is designed and simulated using CSTMWS V'10. The main goal of this paper is to get multi-frequency behavior by cutting resonant slots into the patch of the antenna and a wideband antenna behavior using an aperture coupled feeding method. The designed antenna has a semi-spiral G-shaped compact structure and an electromagnetically coupled feeding mechanism (aperture-coupled feeding). It is fabricated on an FR4 substrate with a dielectric constant of 4.4 and a dielectric loss tangent of 0.009. The testing of prototype antenna (to measure S11) is done using a vector network analyzer. The measured results are 80% matching to the simulated ones. The parametric study, simulation results, measured results, and applications of the MSA for WLAN, WiMAX, and the FCC unlicensed 5.2 GHz National Information Infrastructure (U-NII) bands are presented in the paper. The antenna shows a simulated gain of about 4.5 dB at the three wireless application bands.

Keywords

Aperture-coupled microstrip antennaWLANWiMaXCSTMWS V'10GainImpedance BandwidthRadiation patternReturn loss
Type
Research Papers
Information
International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies , Volume 8 , Special Issue 6: Signal Processing Symposium 2015 , September 2016 , pp. 931 - 941
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press and the European Microwave Association 2015 

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