The design of a dual band operational compact antenna is investigated in this paper for RFID handheld reader application. The dual frequency operation of the antenna is achieved by using a U-shaped slot on the patch and a L-shaped slot in the ground plane. The shorted wall connecting the patch and the ground plane plays a vital role to make it compact. The overall dimension of the patch is 20×3...

A new dual-polarized slot-coupled microstrip patch antenna is presented, which can achieve high-isolation low crosspolarization levels, a wide bandwidth, and low backward radiation levels. The coupling slot is an H-shaped slot. For wide bandwidth and easy integration with active circuits, it uses the slot-coupled stacked microstrip patches. The theoretical analysis is based on the finite-differ...

A post-wall waveguide-fed parallel-plate slot array antenna [1–3] has been proposed as a highgain, high-efficiency and mass producible planar antenna in millimeter-wave applications. The authors are developing post-wall waveguide slot arrays using a copper-clad dielectric substrate which reduces the cost of waveguides structures by printed circuit board (PCB) fabrication technique. The transmis...

A compact, coplanar waveguide (CPW) fed asymmetric slot antenna with dual operating bands is proposed. The slot is modified rectangular in shape and asymmetrically cut in the ground plane. A hexagonal patch fed by a two-step CPW is used to excite the slot. The feed itself is slightly asymmetric (shifted, with unequal ground planes). The asymmetric cuts on the slot together with the feed line as...

This paper presents a novel design of an egg curve based wide-slot antenna for various wideband applications. The proposed printed antenna consists of an egg curved slot with a similar tuning stub. The egg curve is obtained by introducing an egg shaping parameter into standard elliptic curve equation. The effect on the impedance bandwidth through the variations in antenna design parameters has ...

In this communication, a new compact UWB monopole antenna with dual band rejection is presented. The antenna is designed using FR4 substrate with dielectric constant 4.4, loss tangent 0.02 and a height of 1.59 mm. Initially the UWB antenna is designed to obtain a 153% fractional bandwidth from 2.4 GHz–21.7GHz. The ground plane beneath the patch is etched out and a rectangular slot is introduced...

Different slot structures have been widely used in numerous designs to produce antennas with enhanced bandwidths. In this paper, a printed slot antenna has been introduced as a candidate for use in the multi-band wireless communication applications. The antenna slot structure has a rectangular shape with its width, from the side of feed, has been modified in the form of Koch fractal curve of th...

In this paper an rectangular patch with parasitic stub whose edge have been cut , with two slots near the feedline has been proposed. The antenna is designed using HFSS software. The designed antenna shows wideband characteristics having simulated bandwidth of 96 %.The overall dimension of the antenna are 35×35×1.6 mm 3 .This antenna obtained maximum gain of 9.55dB having VSWR is less than 2. K...

Two antenna designs were achieved for dual and wide band operation in wireless systems. One design was realized using a tapered meander slot with a microstrip feed to give dual band operation at 1.8 and 2.4 GHz. In this design both operating frequencies are controlled mainly by the horizontal slot width of the meander and the distance of the microstrip line termination from the slot. The other ...

This paper presents the design and analysis of Liquid Crystal (LC) based tunable reflectarray antenna with different design configurations within X-band frequency range. The effect of LC volume used for unit cell element on frequency tunability and reflection loss performance has been investigated. Moreover different slot embedded patch element configurations have been proposed for LC based tun...