In this paper, we propose a small switched-beam antenna for mobile terminal. This kind of antenna is a single compact slot antenna fed by microstrip line. This proposed antenna provides three different radiation patterns. The antenna is designed to cover 3G Universal Mobile Telecommunication Systems (UMTS; 1.922.17 GHz). Its advantage is small of size and easy to manufacture. The performance of...

In recent years, microstrip antennas become very popular because of their interesting advantages of low cost, low profile, light weight, easy fabrication and ease of analysis. Electromagnetic Band Gap (EBG) substrate is used as a part of antenna structure to improve the performance of the patch antenna. Usually, the performance of a patch antenna depends on the parameters such as Return Loss (R...

Different feeding techniques of microstrip patch antennas with different spiral defected ground structures are presented in this paper. The investigated structures illustrate some merits in designing multi-electromagnetic band-gap structures by adjusting the capacitance and changing the inductance through varying the width and length of spiral defected ground structure. Then by applying the thr...

The need for development of microstrip patch antennas for ultra-wideband (UWB) communications has been very well recognized.UWB antennas are mainly used for wearable MIMO sytems,weather mesurements and also UWB radar applications. Patch antenna can be a good choice for handheld devices in UWB applications.There was a great success in finding a suitable structure for mobile applications.This pap...

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...

Over the past years microstrip resonators have been widely used in the range of microwave frequencies. In general these structures are poor radiators, but by proper design the radiation performance can be improved and these structures can be used as antenna elements (Damiano & Papiernik, 1994). In recent years microstrip patch antennas became one of the most popular antenna types for use in aer...

Millimeter-wave antennas have been developed for various applications such as broadband high-speed wireless communication systems and automotive radar systems. Microstrip antennas are more advantageous than other millimeter-wave antennas at the viewpoints of low profile and low cost [1]. On the other hand, transmission loss of microstrip line is significant problem in array feeding. So, microst...

Generally microstrip patch antenna (MPA) is used in modern communication devices and day-to-day communication is done through it. Study of literature of past few year shows that, the leading work on MPA is design compact size broadband microstrip antenna, but inherently MPA have narrow bandwidth so various techniques are engaged to enhance bandwidth. This review paper demonstrates some commonly...

In this article, a novel dual-band microstrip monopole antenna based on split-ring elements is proposed for WLAN (2.4/5 GHz) applications. The antenna fed by a two-stage microstrip line has fairly small dimensions and provides 7.5 and 25.5% impedance bandwidth performance at the respective bands. Also, the antenna exhibits almost uniform radiation patterns at each frequency band. The measuremen...

In this paper, a printed hexagonal wide slot antenna, fed by a microstrip line with fork like tuning stub for bandwidth enhancement is proposed and experimentally investigated. The impedance, radiation and gain characteristics of this antenna are studied. Simulation and experimental results indicate that a 1.5:1 VSWR bandwidth, of about 1 GHz and 2:1 VSWR bandwidth of 1.34 GHz is achieved at op...