In this paper, a compact UWB printed monopole antenna design is proposed. The monopole antenna has the form of an E-shaped structure printed on a substrate with relative dielectric constant of 3.38, and thickness of 1.52mm. The matching through the UWB response is satisfied using a reduced ground plane. The proposed antenna is fed by a 50 Ω unsymmetrical microstrip line. The ground plane is pri...

An optimized design for the spanner shape regular hexagonal monopole (RHM) patch antennas has been reported to yield ultra wide band (UWB) impedance bandwidth. Impedance and radiation characteristics are presented and discussed. From the results, it has been observed that, the impedance bandwidth, defined by 10 dB return loss, can reach a value of 8.63GHz. A rectangular slit in the radiating pa...

We propose in this paper the design, realization and experimental characterization of a low-profile metamaterial “bent” monopole antenna with a total height of 0.027λ0 and a fractional bandwidth of 24.4% around 1.3GHz. The metamaterial (MTM) structure is a dual-layer mushroom-like electromagnetic band gap (DLEBG) conceived and optimized to improve the antenna’s operating bandwidth. Moreover, a ...

A multiband monopole antenna with modified fractal loop parasitic is presented. By adding bow-tie patches and a modified fractal loop to the sides and bottom of a strip line monopole, respectively, the presented antenna can generate the multi-resonant frequencies for the application of wireless communication systems. The characteristics of the presented antenna have been examined by using the s...

New methods are presented for increasing the bandwidth of wire antennas using impedance loading. This paper extends the seminal Wu-King theory of the internal impedance profile that produces travelling-wave only current modes on a center-fed dipole antenna. It also presents a numerical optimization methodology based on Central Force Optimization, a new deterministic multidimensional search and ...

In this paper, we introduce a novel printed monopole antenna for ultra-wideband (UWB) applications. The antenna is composed of two overlapped circular disc monopoles with a finite ground plane and fed by a 50 microstrip line. The designed antenna operates over impedance bandwidth (2.9 to 11.6GHz) for return loss S Ω 11 < -10dB. The antenna also shows omni-directional radiation patterns and good...

An investigation of magnetic current distribution of CPW fed arrow shaped UWB antenna is reported. This enables the precise prediction of working principle of UWB antenna, since the traditional UWB antenna simulations ignore important details. The computation was performed numerically for an arrow shaped antenna at different resonant frequencies at various input current phase changes and was fo...

In this paper, a balanced antenna for mobile handset applications with enhanced bandwidth performance, that covers four bands (GSM1800, GSM1900, UMTS and 2.4-GHz WLAN), is investigated. The antenna is a slot planar dipole with folded structure and a dual-arm on each monopole. A wide bandwidth planar balun is employed to feed the wideband balanced antenna from an unbalanced source. A prototype o...

Impurity contamination and localized heat loads associated with ion cyclotron range of frequency (ICRF) antenna operation are among the most challenging issues for ICRF utilization.. Another challenge is maintaining maximum coupled power through plasma variations including edge localized modes (ELMs) and confinement transitions. Here, we report on an experimental assessment of a field aligned (...