Abstract—A folded printed quadrifilar helical antenna (FPQHA) with an integrated and compact feeding network is proposed. The axial length of the proposed antenna is miniaturized of about 54.7% than the conventional PQHA by folding the helix arms into several elements. A T-junction power divider combining with two Wilkinson power dividers is utilized to feed the antenna. A fabricated prototype ...

Inter-digital line antennas are being used to test the feasibility of lower hybrid current drive in MST. The antennas use !/4 resonators and launch slow waves at 800 MHz with n|| ~ 7.5. Routine operation has been achieved with a good impedance match between antenna and plasma. High power antenna design improvements include larger vacuum feedthroughs, better impedance matching, and rf instrument...

Abslmct This paper presents the experimental investigation of a dual-operation antenna operating in the L-band region. The basis of the design is the basic rectangular patch. The patch is perturbed with embedded two L-section structures. The chosen frequencies are 1.575 GHz for Giobal Positioning System (GPS) satellite receiver and 1.8 GHz for Global System for Mobile (GSM). The antenna has bee...

This work presents a new planar multiband antenna based on fractal geometry. This structure is optimized and validated into simulation by using CST-MW Studio. To feed this antenna we have used a CPW line which makes it easy to be incorporated with integrated circuits. The simulation results presents a good matching input impedance and radiation pattern in the GSM band at 900 MHz and ISM band at...

A printed dipole antenna integrated with a duplex RF switch used for mobile base station antenna beam steering is presented. A coplanar waveguide to coplanar strip transition was adopted to feed the printed dipole. A novel RF switch circuit, used to control the RF signal fed to the dipole antenna and placed directly before the dipole, was proposed. Simulated and measured data for the CWP-to-CPS...

In this paper, an T shaped dualband microstrip antenna fed by coaxial feed is presented for wearable applications in the ISM band (2.42.5GHz,5.7-5.8GHz).This antenna provides dual band performance. As for the wearable applications, we use a felt as the substrate to make sure the antenna can bend follow human body. The overall size of the proposed antenna is 44mm*36mm*3mm. Different parameters l...

Energy harvesting is a future technology for capturing ambient energy from the environment to be recycled to feed low-power devices. A planar antipodal Vivaldi antenna is presented for gathering energy from GSM, WLAN, UMTS and related applications. The designed antenna has the potential to be used in energy harvesting systems. Moreover, the antenna is suitable for UWB applications, because it o...

In this paper we propose a circularly polarized (CP) microstrip antenna on a suspended substrate with a coplanar capacitive feed and a slot within the rectangular patch. The antenna has an axial ratio bandwidth (< 3 dB) of 7.1%. The proposed antenna exhibits a much higher impedance bandwidth of about 49% (S11 < −10 dB) and also yields return loss better than −15 dB in the useful range of circul...

In this paper, a novel wideband single-feed circularly polarized patch antenna is presented. The antenna consists of an L-shaped probe, four parasitic patches perpendicular to the probe, and a planar reflector. By modifying the structure of the patches, two orthogonal radiation modes are created to realize the circular polarization in the broadside direction. This antenna exhibits a wide impeda...

In this article, a novel and compact ultra-wideband (UWB) planar antenna is presented. This antenna consists of an annular patch and a 50 microstrip feed line. The 3.5/5.5GHz dual band-notched characteristic gets achieved by etching a C-shaped slot in the patch and complimentary split ring resonator (CSRR) structure in the ground. The measured results show that the proposed antenna can achieve ...