ELECT A new ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna integrated with a narrow-band (NB) antenna has been designed and fabricated. The UWB antenna consists of a U-shaped dielectric resonator fed by a microstrip line. In addition, the proposed structure integrates an NB slot with the same polarisation. The electromagnetic analysis is carried out by using two commercial software tools. To validate the propose...

In this paper, a dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) is presented for wireless local area network (WLAN) applications. Here three rectangular dielectric resonators are used as stepped manner. The DRA is excited by microstrip line which is an effective feed mechanism to obtain better radiation. In this design, rectangular shape was used as the dielectric resonator as it offers more option to cont...

Future base stations for Spatial Division Multiplex Access (SDMA) will utilize adaptive antenna arrays, capable of identifying the direction of the incoming signal and steering the transmitted beam in appropriate directions. The radiating elements that have been thus far considered for building the antenna array are typically wire dipoles or microstrip patches. This tutorial paper describes a n...

In this paper, suppression of mutual coupling is achieved using compact waveguided metamaterials (WG-MTMs) in between elements of a densely packed microstrip array. Both the E-plane internally folded complementary split ring resonator and the H-plane internally folded complementary split ring resonator are employed to reduce the mutual coupling between adjacent elements. Coupling suppression of...

Patch hybrid couplers are used to provide arbitrary power division ratio over two frequency bands. The coupler is designed using three main topologies. They are Branch-line, Coupled-line and Patch. Branch-line and Coupled-line provides equal power division ratio over two frequency bands. Patch structure provides arbitrary power division ratios. The patch hybrid coupler is the rapid development ...

A broadband microstrip bandpass filter (BPF) with compact size, sharp skirt and wide upperstopband performance is proposed using the triple-mode stub-loaded resonator. The resonator can generate one odd mode and two even modes in the desired passband. Due to the main path signal counteraction, two transmission zeros Tz1, Tz2 can be created near the passband edge to achieve sharp skirt. Two tran...

Two new triple band small size composite-resonator microstrip antenna configurations for wireless communications are presented in this paper. The proposed antennas, each is built of three resonant elements. Two types of compact short-circuited resonators are used; stepped impedance and quarter-wave resonators. The design procedure based on composing the antenna resonators is straightforward and...

This paper presents the design procedure of a bandpass filter based on parallel coupled half wave length resonator concept with full length coupling. For the purpose of miniaturization and to get high coupling the new model of parallel coupled bandpass filter has been introduced. Here, the third resonator is placed just beneath the first one & fifth beneath the third one. Similar condition is f...

In this paper, a compact ultra-wideband patch antenna with dual-band rejection is proposed. The proposed antenna filters 3.3-3.8 GHz WiMAX and 5.15-5.85 GHz WLAN by respectively rejecting these bands through a C-shaped slit and a λg/4 resonator. The λg/4 resonator is positioned as a pair, centered around the microstrip line, and a C-type slit is inserted into an elliptical patch. The impedance ...

A topology optimization method is proposed in this study to miniaturize a Rectangular Microstrip Patch Antenna (RMPA) operates at a frequency of 2.4 GHz using Metamaterials (MTMs) composed of complementary resonator. The metamaterial is placed in an intermediate layer between the patch and the ground, binary pixelation approach is used to build the structure of the complementary resonator and i...