ii Table of Contents Table of Contents ________________________ ii I. Abstract ________________________ iii II. Introduction ________________________ 1 A. Fractal Generator Review ________________________ 2 B. Abstract This paper studies the miniaturization of dipole antennas by using fractal tree structures as the elements. It studies fractal density and elevation angle to see how these factor...

a novel multiband and broadband fractal patch antenna is presented in this paper. The proposed antenna is compact, simple to design and fabricate. The impedance bandwidth of the proposed antenna could reach 18%, which has rarely been reported for single layer and single patch antennas. Multiband characteristics are also observed and analyzed. All results are proved by simulation and experiment.

Fractal antennas have been shown to demonstrate repetitive multi-band or logperiodic behavior that has been attributed to the self-similar scale factor of the antenna’s geometry. This geometry, which has been used to model complex objects found in nature such as clouds and coastlines, has space filling properties that can be utilized to miniaturize antennas. These unique properties of fractals ...

In this communication, a low-cost circularly polarized wire antenna exhibiting improved gain performance for Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC), vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications is presented. The proposed antenna comprises a Y-shaped quarterwavelength monopole antenna surrounded by two iterations of eight conductive arched walls acting as para...

This paper presents a multiband slot antenna with modifying fractal geometry fed by coplanar waveguide (CPW) transmission line. The presented antenna has been designed by modifying an inner fractal patch of the antenna to operate at multiple resonant frequencies, which effectively supports the digital communication system (DCS 1.71–1.88 GHz), worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiM...

The C-shaped microstrip antenna is a compact variation of rectangular microstrip antenna and it has smaller bandwidth as compared to the rectangular patch. In this paper, bandwidth of C-shaped microstrip antenna is first increased by using proximity feeding technique. Further gap-coupled configuration of two C-shaped microstrip antennas on thicker substrate is proposed. It gives bandwidth of mo...

This paper presents a microstrip antenna using CPW-fed heptagonal shaped antenna embedded with triangular shaped slots for WLAN/WIMAX applications. The proposed antenna provides an impedance bandwidth of 3.08 GHz. The antenna exhibits dual frequency bands 3.4 GHz to 6.48 GHz, covering WLAN and WiMAX bands. The parametric study is performed to understand the characteristics of the proposed anten...