A printed microstrip window antenna is proposed in this paper. The window antenna is obtained by perforating a con entional microstrip patch antenna into a window-like geometry. This perforation not only induces a size reduction of more than 50%, but also makes it possible for antenna and RF circuits to be integrated into a unified subsystem by embedding passi e and acti e circuits into the win...

Reduced graphene oxide (rGO) has been studied as a resistive ammonia gas sensor at room temperature. The sensitive hybrid material composed of rGO and nano-silver ink (Ag-ink) was loaded on a microstrip patch antenna to realize high-performance wireless ammonia sensors. The material was investigated using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). Firstly, in...

In this letter, a compact planar ultra-wideband mobile antenna with L-shaped extended ground stubs is presented. The proposed handset antenna consists of two planar meandered monopole radiating elements, i.e., main antenna and auxiliary antenna respectively, located at the diagonal corners of mobile phone printed circuit broad with standard size of 136 × 68mm2. Each radiating element is compose...

The condition for axial mode operation in helical antenna according to the classical design data is the helix circumference to wavelength ratio (C/ ) must be in a range of 0.8 to 1.2. In this paper the C/ ratio is reduced to 0.2 for the wavelength 125 mm. It is achieved by loading the helix in a back cavity. The design concept of helical resonator filter is used for design of this antenna. If t...

An improved novel printed wideband flat-plate monopole antenna is presented. The proposed antenna consists of a pentagonal monopole embedded in a corner notch in the antenna ground plane part. Simulated and measured results of the input return loss for the proposed antenna are in good agreement. The antenna has been shown to operate satisfactorily in the 0.47–6 GHz frequency range, and is there...

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...

A novel compact CPW-fed printed dipole antenna is proposed for dual-band Ultra wide band (UHF) RFID and wireless local area network (WLAN) operations. This antenna consist of two dipole elements and it covers 2.53 GHz Ultra High Frequency (UHF) RFID and 5.2 GHZ WLAN IEEE 802.11 Standards. The return loss, radiation pattern, field pattern, linear and circular polarization components are simulate...

The interaction of a helical antenna, mounted on a mobile handset, with a human head phantom is investigated in this paper. Using the Genetic Algorithms (GA) technique combined with the Method of Moments (MoM), an optimization of the antenna structure is achieved regarding the input impedance at the operating frequency. The Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method is then applied to simulate...

A wide band, integrated linear printed antenna array with low sidelobe cosecant square-shaped beam pattern is presented. Array synthesis mainly about the wide shaped coverage, low ripple and sidelobe level (SLL) has been done using the modified least square method by matrix inversion. A printed dipole integrated with wideband balun has been chosen as the array element for wide bandwidth and goo...

The first demonstration of a printed antenna remote unit (ARU) for optically distributed mobile communications compliant with the 1.9-GHz PCN specifications is presented. The ARU consists of a cavity-backed printed antenna with appropriate RF and photonic circuitry. The ARU is low cost, compact, robust, and can be easily positioned in typical microcell/picocell sites. A summary of the design pr...