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Design and analysis of a compact quad band loaded monopole antenna with independent resonators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 January 2018

Mahmoud A. Abdalla  and
Zhirun Hu
Mahmoud A. Abdalla*
Affiliation:
Electromagnetic Waves Group, Department of Electronic Engineering, Military Technical College, Giza, Egypt
Zhirun Hu
Affiliation:
Microwave and Communication Systems Group, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
*
Corresponding author: M. A. Abdalla Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

A quad band antenna with good gain and omni-directional pattern is proposed in this paper. The antenna design is based on loading a conventional monopole antenna by three different resonators. The resonators are inspired from the shunt branch of composite right-/left-handed cell. The resonators have a simple structure and compact size. The control of the frequency bands can be achieved arbitrarily and hence the suggested design methodology can be generalized to any required bands. The fabricated antenna prototype is operating at 2.6, 3.35, 5.15, and 6.1 GHz with bandwidth wider than 100 MHz for each band. The antenna's operating principle and design procedures with the aid of electromagnetic full wave simulation are presented. Finally, the experimental results exhibit good agreement with the simulated ones which confirm the proposed designed methodology. The proposed monopole antenna has a patch size of 13.5 mm × 6.5 mm and the whole antenna size (including the feed line) is 35 mm × 32 mm. Compared to conventional single-band microstrip patch radiator size, the proposed quad band radiator has the size of 9, 15, 37.5, and 72.5% at relevant frequency bands.

Keywords

Multiband antennaOmni-directional antennaMonopole antenna
Type
Research Papers
Information
International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , May 2018 , pp. 479 - 486
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press and the European Microwave Association 2018 

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