Abstract
A wideband heptagonal fractal monopole antenna with coplanar waveguide feed is designed and fabricated in X-band frequency range. Comparison of heptagonal fractal monopole antennas with two different substrates to achieve optimum efficiency for UWB applications is presented. FR4 and RT/Duroid 5880 substrates are used for antenna design and fabrication. Four iterations of base shape are used. Fractal antenna has omni-directional radiation pattern. Simulated and measured results showed that monopole fractal antenna with RT/Duroid 5880 substrate has better performance than fractal antenna with FR4 substrate in terms of bandwidth and return loss. Major application area of proposed antenna is wireless body area networks.
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- Frontmatter
- Tunable Balanced Bandpass Filter with High Common-mode Suppression Based on SLSRs
- Compact Quad-Band Bandpass Filter Using Double-Diplexing Structure
- Seven-Port Unequal Power Divider with Broadband and Large Division Ratio Characteristics Based on T-shape Stub
- A Wilkinson Power Divider with Harmonics Suppression and Size Reduction Using Meandered Compact Microstrip Resonating Cells
- A 210 GHz Power-Combined Frequency Multiplying Source with Output Power of 23.8 mW
- Fractal Based Triple Band High Gain Monopole Antenna
- Wideband Monopole Fractal Heptagonal Antenna Implementation in X-Band Frequency Range
- A Compact SIW-Fed Dielectric Antenna with Equivalently Tapered E-plane Profile
- Dual Band Notched EBG Structure based UWB MIMO/Diversity Antenna with Reduced Wide Band Electromagnetic Coupling
- A Frequency Reconfigurable MIMO Antenna System for Cognitive Radio Applications
- A Practical Millimeter-Wave Holographic Imaging System with Tunable IF Attenuator
- A Two-Stage Space-Time Adaptive Processing Method for MIMO Radar Based on Sparse Reconstruction
- Simple and Low-Cost Dual-Band Printed Microwave Absorber for 2.4- and 5-GHz-Band Applications
- Overview of Sparse Graph for Multiple Access in Future Mobile Networks
- The Lightning Electromagnetic Pulse Coupling Effect Inside the Shielding Enclosure With Penetrating Wire
- The DLR Spaceborne SAR Calibration Center
- Electron Beam Misalignment Study of MIG for 42 GHz, 200 kW Gyrotron