Abstract— The paper presents the design and performance measures of a printed stepped patch monopole antenna with semi-elliptical ground plane and band notch for ultra wideband applications. The proposed antenna operates in the frequency range 3.15 ~ 12.2 GHz with average gain of 4.27 dBi. Inverted U shaped slot is introduced in the feed line for WLAN band rejection and the rejection band range...

A novel compact asymmetrical grounded coplanar waveguide-fed antenna for dual-band operation is presented. The modified asymmetric ground and slit on the radiating element provides dual band covering 2.4 and 5.2 GHz WLAN operation. A prototype of proposed antenna has been fabricated and tested. The antenna offers omnidirectional radiation pattern at 2.4 GHz and directional radiation pattern at ...

In this paper, the design of a coaxial feed single layer rectangular microstrip patch antenna for three different wireless communication band applications is presented. The proposed antenna is designed by using substrate Roger RT/duroid 5880 having permittivity of about 2.2 and tangent loss of 0.0009. The characteristics of the substrate are designed and to evaluate the performance of modeled a...

A compact size low profile microstrip-fed crossed monopole antenna for ultra wideband communication is presented. The impedance bandwidth of a microstrip crossed monopole antenna has increased with a suitable dimension of ground plane and rectangular patch. The aim of this paper is to improved bandwidth and return loss of a Crossed Monopole Microstrip patch antenna and study the effect of anten...

The increasing demand in portable devices with wireless connectivity provides a challenge to design a RF front antenna. Microstrip patch antennas are widely used because they are of light weight, compact, easy to integrate. However the serious problem of patch antenna is their narrow band due to surface losses and large size of patch for better performance. So for the antenna miniaturization an...

Here we present and analyze an optical spectrum analyzer at the nanometer scale that is able to distribute different frequency contents of the radiation of an optical dipole source into different directions in the space. The spectrum analyzer is composed of arrays of optical Yagi-Uda nanoantennas, forming relatively narrow radiation patterns operating at different frequencies. The optical Yagi-...

Antennas radiate (vector) momentum as well as energy, but if the radiation pattern is symmetric, the total radiated momentum is zero. Consider a simple antenna array that consists of two short linear dipole antennas whose centers are λ/4 apart and whose conductors point along the line of centers of the antennas. If the two antennas are excited with a 90◦ phase difference, deduce the asymmetric ...

A compact cross, circular and square shaped slotted microstrip patch antennas are designed for circularly polarized (CP) radiation. The designed antenna is fabricated on RO4003C substrate and measured using Agilent network analyzer. The simulated return loss of this proposed antenna is less than -16dB at 920MHz with a bandwidth of 3MHz which is most suitable for RFID application. The circular p...

A double-discone antenna for an ultra-wideband frequency scan is presented. An exquisite assembly of two inverse-feeding discone antennas shows a 30:1 broad bandwidth with VSWR below 2.5 and an omnidirectional radiation pattern. These features make the proposed antenna very suitable for both the UWB system antenna and the wideband scan antenna. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Techn...