width of 77 percent for a 2:1 VSWR. However, the impedance bandwidth of this antenna design is still not enough to cover most wireless applications. It is important to enhance the impedance bandwidth of microstrip-fed wideslot antennas. In this article, a novel design of a microstrip-fed, printed rectangular slot antenna, with a small trapezoidal slot tuning for wireless applications, is propos...

The plate-laminated waveguide slot array antenna is a high-efficiency and wide-band antenna in the millimeterwave band. However, in the conventional corporate-feed circuit, the number of radiating elements is limited to be a power of two by using a cascade of T-junctions. In this paper, we propose the corporate-feed with a cross junction and an asymmetric Tjunction for 12×16 elements. The bandw...

Maintaining mutual coupling suppressing structure as simple as possible is becoming attractive in the electromagnetic and antenna community. A novel parasitic patch structure that can reduce mutual coupling between cavity-backed slot antenna elements is proposed and studied. The structure consists of only a simple rectangular patch inserted between the antenna elements, and it is therefore low ...

This paper presents a comparative review study on ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna technology for Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) applications. The proposed antenna designs for UWB ground penetrating radar include a bow-tie antennas, Vivaldi antennas, horn antennas, planar antennas, tapered slot antennas, dipole antennas, and spiral antennas. Furthermore a comprehensive study in terms of operating f...

In the days of modern communication, the compact size, low profile antenna with the directional capability is demanded for the wireless communication applications. To fulfill this requirement two new structures of antennas are designed. Two different geometries of microstrip antenna for triple band and Tetra band operation have been investigated in this paper with a new concept of T-slot in the...

Microstrip antennas are widely used in many applications due to their low profile, low cost and ease of fabrication. In some applications it is desired to have a dual band or multiband characteristics. These characteristics can be obtained by coupling multiple radiating elements or by using tuning devices such as varactor diodes [1, 2]. However, these methods make antenna more complicated. A si...

This letter presents a miniaturized probe-fed elliptical microstrip patch antenna (PF-EMPA) targeting the 8.50-10.55 GHz band for radiolocation applications. The proposed design is composed of an elliptical patch inserted into an elliptical slot. In order to achieve our goals and control the impedance matching, we adjusted the offset distance from the elliptical patch to the side of the ellipti...

A tapered coplanar waveguide (CPW) transition is proposed in order to facilitate the connection between a slot antenna and coaxial connector. The broadband bow-tie slot antenna is considered as an example in this design. The tapered transition is utilized to optimize the connection of two 50 CPW lines with different widths. A narrow CPW line is connected to the slot-antenna feed point and the w...

This study presents a new design of patch antenna with Human face shaped slot on the patch. This antenna has dual operating bands and suitable for wireless and C-band application. With a simple design configuration and the human face slot form on patch, the proposed antenna can be used in multiband wireless operations, covering the mobile IMT (3400-3600 MHz), C-band (3400-4200 MHz) and WiMAX (2...

An investigation into the effect of ground slot in a microstrip antenna is presented. Initially, a planar inverted-F antenna dedicated for 2.45 GHz WLAN lower band is designed. Its rectangular ground plane is then introduced with slots to excite new magnetic resonance for 5.2/5.8 GHz WLAN upper band. The slots are optimized by tuning their three different configuration parameters which are the ...