In the millimeter-wave band, the series-fed array antenna is facing a problem of large transmission loss and narrow bandwidth by using a high-permittivity and large-loss-tangent material. In this paper, an air region is inserted in the half of the height in the LTCC waveguide of εr =6.6 and tanδ =0.013 to reduce the transmission loss. The reduction of the equivalent dielectric constant by the a...

─ In this study, we present an UltraWideband (UWB) monopole antenna with bandnotched function. The proposed antenna is fed by a microstrip line. By using two modified forkshaped slots in the ground plane, bandwidth is increased that provides a wide usable fractional bandwidth of more than 135% (2.82-15.63). In order to achieve band-rejected performance, a cross-ring slot was inserted at the squ...

In this paper, we have investigated a printed modified circular disc monopole antenna with cross-shaped slot in radiating patch for UWB applications. The proposed antenna covers the entire UWB band (i.e., 3.1GHz to 10.6GHz) except the frequency band of IEEE 802.11a (i.e., from 5.15GHz to 5.83GHz). This UWB antenna will be of use in environments where IEEE 802.11a WLAN devices are already in ope...

Many kinds of microstrip array antennas have been developed in the millimeter-wave band. In order to avoid feeding loss and the decrease of antenna gain by beam shift due to frequency changes, center-fed array antennas are advantageous. In this case, the element spacing around the feeding circuit of the transition from the waveguide to two microstrip lines is larger than one wavelength. Therefo...

The development of broadband transmission and ATM switching technologies opens up an opportunity for providing high bit-rate multipoint and multimedia services such as video conferencing. Also, wireless communication has the inherent advantage of multicast transmission and may be used for multipoint information services. We consider multicast packet switching for which an input may send the sam...

The concept of adiabatic mode transformation between silicon waveguide and surface plasmon-polariton modes in subwavelength metal-dielectric slots is investigated. The mode transformer consists of a modulated-index slot region, which is bound by two metal slabs. Using the design scheme, we will show that the optical dispersion of a modulated-index metal slot waveguide can be engineered well abo...

In recent years, the introduction of new indoor communication wireless protocols such as Bluetooth, IEEE 802.11b, and wireless local area networks (WLANs) has led to enormous challenges with respect to antenna designs for wireless communications. The newer WLANs, however, have to provide high-speed wireless connectivity between PCs, laptops, and other equipment in corporate, public, and home en...

In this article, the parametric analysis of the slot-loaded microstrip line feed patch antenna is investigated using artificial neural network model. The bandwidths of the proposed antenna obtained at TM01, TM02, and TM03 frequency modes are 10.2 GHz, 13.6GHz, and 17.2 GHz, respectively. The performance of the proposed antenna is analyzed using artificial neural network model. The changes obtai...

A compact planar monopole UWB antenna with quadruple band-notched characteristics is analyzed and presented. By introducing a C-shaped slot, nested C-shaped slot in the radiating patch and U-shaped slot in the feed line, quadruple band-notched characteristics are achieved at frequencies of 2.5, 3.7, 5.8 and 8.2 GHz. The proposed antenna has been fabricated and tested. Measured impedance bandwid...

A compact printed wide-slot (PWS) antenna is proposed for UWB applications. The proposed UWB-PWS antenna basically consists of a stepped microstrip feed-line with a rectangular patch stub and a rectangular wide-slot element at the aperture. Additional parasitic split-ring elements are placed along the patch stub to achieve notch-band characteristics. As the proposed antenna in absence of the ri...