A novel and compact tri-band microstrip-fed monopole antenna with dual-polarisation characteristics for wireless local area network (WLAN) and worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) applications is proposed. The antenna is composed of a partial ground and a Y-shaped radiating patch that consists of two unequal monopole arms and a modified circle monopole. The antenna is able to generate three separate impedance bandwidths to cover the frequency bands of the WLAN (2.4-2.484 and 5.8 GHz) and the WiMAX (3.4-3.7 GHz). In addition, the antenna is circularly polarised in both the WLAN bands. Furthermore, the antenna structure is extremely simple, durable and occupies small space, making it suitable for practical applications.
An extremely simple and compact planar monopole ultrawideband (UWB) slot antenna with dual band-notched characteristics is proposed. The antenna is composed of a circular radiation patch, a microstrip-fed line, and a partial ground. By etching an arcshaped slot on the radiation patch and a C-like slot on the feed line, dual notched frequency bands at 3.3-3.7 GHz for WiMAX and 5.15-5.825 GHz for WLAN are achieved. And, the two notched bands can be adjusted independently by varying the length of the slots. Moreover, the band-notched characteristics can be reconfigurable by shorting the corresponding slots. So, the antenna is capable of operating in one of multiple modes which makes it an excellent candidate for UWB applications. Meanwhile, experimental results indicate that the antenna has an available impendence bandwidth from 2.9 to 11 GHz which covers the UWB frequency band, and nearly omnidirectional patterns, stable gains, small group delay in operating band except rejected bands. V C 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE 24:706-712, 2014.
In this paper, a novel compact wideband and high-gain antenna based on metasurface is proposed. The antenna is an octagon with a side length of 32.3 mm and a height of 5.6 mm. The metasurface consists of two stacking layers, and both layers contain a 4×4 copper patch array. The antenna is excited by an aperture coupled structure made of an anomalous microstrip line and a narrow slot etched in the ground plane. Genetic algorithm (GA) is adopted to optimize all the parameters and obtain the valid performance of the metasurface antenna. Moreover, the antenna is modified by introducing nonuniform patch. Modification leads to varying degrees gain enhancement, and the peak is approximately 1.5 dB at 6.1GHz. The impedance bandwidth of the proposed antenna is 54.9%, ranging from 4.48-7.87 GHz. A prototype of the antenna is fabricated, and the measured results verify the design.INDEX TERMS Wideband, metasurface, optimization algorithm, nonuniform patch, high gain.
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