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This study presents the design of a low‐cost fractal antenna loaded with parasitic edge‐coupled (EC) split ring resonators (SRR). Parasitic EC SRR elements result in improved impedance matching leading to improved bandwidth. The basic resonant structure is a circular patch antenna designed at 3.2 GHz on low‐cost FR4 substrate with relative permittivity 4.4, and 1.6 mm thickness. A single iteration of circular patch and slots is used to make it fractal and in order to achieve multiband performance, the antenna is inset fed by a 50 Ω microstrip line. A prototype of the proposed antenna is fabricated and tested for results, a comparison between fractal antenna with and without SRRs is made and the results confirm that a better impedance matching is achieved in the later case, also a 3% increase in bandwidth is achieved at 8.5 GHz. A good agreement between simulated and measured results is obtained, an estimated gain of 13.3 dB is provided by the proposed antenna. The overall dimensions of the antenna are 45 mm × 45 mm and it may be used for wireless applications at 3, 5, 6.8, 7.5 and 8.5 GHz with an average bandwidth of 200 MHz.

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This paper presents a hybrid design of Sierpinski Carpet and Minkowski antenna for wireless applications. The hybrid antenna is designed, simulated and fabricated on an FR4 substrate with thickness 1.6 mm and dielectric constant 4.4. The dimensions of antenna are 45 × 38.92 × 1.6 mm 3 which operates at various frequencies 3.43 GHz, 4.78 GHz, 6.32 GHz, 8.34 GHz and 9.64 GHz, and can be used for Wi-Max, C-band applications, Point-to-point Hi speed wireless communication and X-band (satellite Communication) applications. The measured results are also compared with the simulated ones which are in agreement with each other. Ansoft High Frequency Structure Simulator (HFSS) is used to design and simulate the antenna.

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