This paper presents the aspects related to the design and development of a tapered spiral helix antenna covering the frequency range 1.2-18GHz. It is a compact stateof-the-art circularly polarized antenna, which works over multi-octave frequency bandwidth (1.2-18 GHz).The antenna size has been reduced by 50 percent with respect to conventional spiral antenna used for same frequency band. Spiral...

A modified printed Yagi antenna with a simplified feed mechanism is proposed. In the new design, the driver dipole is fed by a transmission line formed by two parallel strips printed on opposite sides of the dielectric substrate. This simplified feed structure results in the reduction of the transmission line length, and, consequently, the radiation losses. The analysis of the modified Yagi ant...

This paper presents the design, simulation, and measurement of two low-cost broadband circularly polarized (CP) printed antennas: a single element and an array at C band. The proposed single element antenna is excited by an L-shaped strip with a tapered end, located along the circular-slot diagonal line in the back plane. From the array experimental results, the 3 dB axial ratio bandwidth can r...

Multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) technology has become an integral part of wireless systems nowadays. This technology depends on the use of multiple antenna elements at the mobile terminal as well as the base station. The design of compact printed MIMO antenna systems is a challenging task specially when it is made for small factor mobile terminals. The introduction of MIMO brought with it...

This paper presents a simple broadband proximitycoupled microstrip patch antenna. A circular patch is used as the main radiator, and an H-shaped shot is cut in the ground plane below the feed line. A stepped-width microstrip line is used to feed the patch through proximity coupling. By using a single patch, the prototype antenna achieves an impedance bandwidth of 26%. Low cross-polar levels bel...

Abstract—In this paper, a triple-band printed dipole tag antenna is proposed for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). The tripleband printed dipole antenna is designed to operate at 0.92GHz, 2.45GHz and 5.8 GHz using Computer Simulation Technology (CST) software. In order to achieve triple-band operation, the proposed antenna contains two branch elements, which act as an additional resonator....

In In this paper, two low profile, single fed cavity backed slot antennas providing a circularly polarized (CP) wave are introduced. One of the antennas presents a right-handed CP (RHCP) wave, while the other one offers a left handed CP (LHCP) wave. The proposed antennas consist of a square shaped Substrtae Integrated Waveguide (SIW) cavity incorporatng two couples of radiating slots to radiate...

In this paper, a triple-band printed dipole tag antenna is proposed for RFID application. The tri-band printed dipole antenna is designed at 0.92 GHz, 2.45 GHz and 5.8 GHz using Computer Simulation Technology (CST). In order to achieve triple-band operation, the proposed antenna contains two branch elements, which acts as an additional resonator. The designed antenna was fabricated using Taconi...

A novel printed top-loaded monopole antenna with a pair of sleeves on the ground plane for multiband wireless local area network (WLAN) applications is presented. This antenna is composed of a top-loaded monopole and two sleeves on a ground plane. Both the antenna and the ground plane are printed on the same side of an inexpensive FR4 substrate. This antenna has light weight and compact size of...