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Quintuple band circular monopole antenna with innovative 3-D printed PLA substrate for wireless applications

  • Ashraf E. Ahmed , Wael A.E. Ali and Sudipta Das ORCID logo EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: August 6, 2021
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Abstract

In this paper, a circular antenna with a 3-D printed substrate is introduced to achieve a multiband behavior. The circular antenna is matched using a key-shaped stub located on the perimeter of the designed antenna. The 3-DP circular antenna adopted the apollonian gasket technique to perform the multi-circular cuttings in the Polylactic Acid (PLA) substrate as an innovative technique to obtain quintuple bands. The proposed antenna is designed to operate for Bluetooth, WLAN, WiMAX, and other wireless applications in S-band and C-band. The designed antenna has a compact size of 61.1 × 43.6 × 1 mm3. The prototype of the suggested 3-D printed antenna is fabricated and measured to confirm the simulation results. A good agreement is evident between simulation and experimental results which validates the design concept.


Corresponding author: Sudipta Das, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, IMPS College of Engineering and Technology, Malda, West Bengal, India, E-mail:

  1. Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.

  2. Research funding: None declared.

  3. Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.

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Received: 2021-03-24
Accepted: 2021-07-25
Published Online: 2021-08-06
Published in Print: 2022-04-26

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