Fractal Monopole Antenna Design Using Minkowski Island Geometry

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2009

Authors

Q. Luo (Author) FEUP; H. M. Salgado (Author) FEUP; J. R. Pereira (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: 2009 IEEE ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM AND USNC/URSI NATIONAL RADIO SCIENCE MEETING, VOLS 1-6

Pages: 2639-2642

IEEE Antennas and Propagation International Symposium /USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting

N Charleston, SC, JUN 01-05, 2009

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FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

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Authenticus ID: P-003-SR1

DOI: 10.1109/aps.2009.5172157

Abstract (EN): In this paper, two printed multiband fractal monopole antennas using the 1(st) and 2(nd) iteration of Minkowski Island geometry are proposed for WLAN communications. The monopole antennas have compact size of 28 x 18 mm(2) and 21.5 x 18 mm(2), respectively. The proposed antennas with different sizes of the ground plane have also been studied through numerical simulations in Ansoft HFSS. It is found that without using any impedance matching method, both of the proposed antennas exhibit good impedance match at both 2.4 and 5.2 GHz band, which is confirmed by the measurement results. It is also observed that the monopole antenna with the geometry of the 1(st) iteration Minkowslci Island can also operate at 3.5 and 5.8 GHz, which means that it almost covers the entire required frequency bands for 802.11a/b/g and WiMAX communications. The simulation shows that both antennas exhibit high radiation efficiency and the measured radiation patterns show that both antennas have similar radiation patterns at each resonant frequency.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 4