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Fork-shaped planar antenna for Bluetooth, WLAN, and WiMAX applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2016

Alaknanda Kunwar
Affiliation:
Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, G. B. Pant Engineering College, Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand 246 194, India. Phone: +91 8979 719 397
Anil Kumar Gautam*
Affiliation:
Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, G. B. Pant Engineering College, Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand 246 194, India. Phone: +91 8979 719 397
*
Corresponding author:A.K. Gautam Email: [email protected]

Abstract

A microstrip transmission line fed fork-shaped planar antenna is proposed for Bluetooth, WLAN, and WiMAX applications. The antenna made of a microstrip feed line, fork-shape patch on one side and defected ground plane on the other side of dielectric substrate. A fork-shape is formed by two side circular arms and a rectangular central arm. The inverted T-shaped ground plane with a rectangular slot in the center arm is used to increase the bandwidth with better impedance matching of the lower band. The antenna is practically fabricated to validate the design. The antenna resonate dual band to cover an entire the WLAN and WiMAX bands. The antenna shows the measured bandwidth of 410 MHz (2.26–2.67) and 3.78 GHz (3.0–6.78 GHz) at lower and upper bands, respectively.

Type
Research Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press and the European Microwave Association 2016 

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