A printed circular open-loop antenna is introduced as a simple structure for producing circular polarization, the antenna is fed with a coaxial probe. By introducing a gap within the circular loop a traveling-wave current is excited and thus circularly polarized radiation can be achieved. An optimized circularly polarized antenna is designed through numerical analysis using a so-called parametr...

A double sided printed antenna with parasitic patch is proposed for Ultra Wide Band (UWB) applications. Antenna has minimal dimensions of 30 x 24.8 x 1.6 mm with asymmetric feed line, whose impedance is 50 Ω. The presented antenna has gain of 7 dB and an extended bandwidth of 11.51 GHz ranging from 1.69 to 13.2 GHz at VSWR < 2. Economical FR4 epoxy substrate and uniform radiation patterns make ...

A micro strip-fed printed bow-tie antenna is presented inorder to achieve wide bandwidth, high gain, and size reduction. A comparisonbetween the bow-tie and the quasi-Yagi (dipole and director)antennas shows that the bow-tie antenna has a wider bandwidth, highergain, lower front-to-back ratio, lower crosspolarization level, andsmaller size. Two-element arrays are designed and their characterist...

This article presents the design of a miniaturized microstrip antenna for microwave medical imaging applications. We propose a miniature rectangular printed antenna that meets the UWB characteristics in terms of bandwidth and reflection coefficient. This antenna is designed for a system to detect malignant tumors by microwave imaging. We use certain techniques of miniaturization and expansion o...

This paper describes an easily manufactured, reducedsize, active receiving antenna for automotive applications, which increases short-range wireless detection in the 315-MHz band. This compact antenna has an advantage over currently available antennas because can be hidden in a vehicle’s interior. The active antenna consists of a low-noise amplifier coupled to a low-profile planer meanderline p...

A new compact printed tri-band antenna for WLAN/WiMAX applications is presented. The proposed antenna consists of three inverted L-shaped strips whose geometry looks like a “bent fork”. These strips are attached to the feed line through a horizontal strip. By optimizing the geometries of the inverted L-shaped strips, distinct resonant points can be effectively created for different frequency ba...

In this paper, an antenna array structure consisting of a reflector plate and a number of printed dipole radiation elements is investigated. This antenna array implementation is suitable for the globally available 2.4GHz and 5GHz ISM frequency band facilitating a variety of wireless applications. S-parameters and radiation characteristics are simulated and measured in details. The impact of the...

An easily manufactured, reduced size, symmetrical printed meander dipole antenna for remote keyless entry (RKE) automotive applications in the 315 MHz frequency band is proposed. The efficiency and directionality of this symmetrical antenna is estimated and compared with the efficiency and directionality of an asymmetrical antenna. Numerical and experimental results are presented. © 2006 Wiley ...