This paper presents a low-cost compact planar microstrip-fed monopole antenna and its four-element array design for ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless communication and target detection applications, respectively, operating in the frequency span of 3 GHz to 11 GHz. A prototype was fabricated and then measured based on optimal parameters. The results of reflection coefficient (S11) and radiation patt...

This paper presents the design of compact CPW-fed band notched UWB square ring antenna. The main objective of this proposed research work is to reduce the size of antenna and avoid interference between UWB and WLAN application at 5.5GHz. The antenna consists of a square-ring metal patch and 50Ω coplanar waveguide fed. The structure of the antenna is miniaturized by optimizing its square ring pr...

A novel complex structure of Printed Dielectric Resonator Monopole Antenna (PDRMA) with multi-bands operation is presented and investigated. In the proposed structure, a printed fork-like stepped monopole antenna is used for exciting two new modified hemicylindrical dielectric resonators with a great relative permittivity of 80. A narrow medium substrate with a low permittivity is also applied ...

In this paper, a novel compact frequency-reconfigurable monopole antenna with switchable symmetric slot structure is presented. The frequency-reconfigurable capability of the antenna is achieved by using a switchable slotted structure on the ground plane. The designed antenna has a simple structure and compact size of 40X40 mm . The antenna, which supports most applicable frequency bands above ...

In the recent research on cylindrical monopole plasma antenna excited by surface wave, many meaningful results about plasmas antenna, e.g. the analysis of physical characteristics, numerical calculation methods, software simulation, diagnosis of parameters have been obtained. But the precise model of monopole plasma antenna according to its three-dimensional structure has not been proposed yet....

A novel compact design of planar T-shaped monopole antenna with multi-band operation for WLAN/WiMAX system is proposed. By insetting a pair of mirrored L-shaped monopole strips, multi resonant modes close to 2.45/3.5/5.5 GHz band are excited to meet the specifications of WLAN/WiMAX system. And, the obtained impedance bandwidth across the operating bands can reach about 160/1100/2690MHz for the ...

In this paper, Neural network model has been used to estimate the feedgap which is one of the design parameters of circular monopole antenna (CMA) required to make it operate in a particular frequency band. A Neural Network (NN) model is prepared using Feed Forward Back Propagation Algorithm which can be further used for designing a CMA operating between 2GHz and 12 GHz. The results obtained by...

A novel compact multi-band design of planar C-shape monopole antenna with inverted L-shape parasitic strip is proposed for IEEE 802.16 m WiMAX system. The obtained impedance bandwidth across the 2.6/3.5/5.5 GHz operating bands can reach about 240/570/4470 MHz, respectively. Only with the antenna size of 15×30×0.8mm3, the proposed monopole antenna has the compact operation with more than 25% ant...

A new design of non-planar magneto-electric monopole antenna is proposed and presented. This antenna consists of a novel design of electric monopole with dual shaped feed line design and possesses 61.5% impedance bandwidth, from 4.5GHz–8.5GHz. The antenna exhibits stable omnidirectional radiation pattern with almost identical E-plane and H-plane radiation patterns and also provides a peak gain ...

In this paper, a new electrically small metamaterial-inspired monopole antenna is presented. It consists of a simple square-shaped coplanar waveguide (CPW-fed) monopole with an embedded complementary split ring resonator (CSRR). It operates at three distinct frequency ranges around 2.45, 4.2, and 5.8GHz, with low return loss and uniform radiation patterns, making it a perfect candidate for mode...