This paper presents a broadband and compact planar quasi-Yagi antenna for multi-band 3G/4G applications. The proposed quasi-Yagi antenna consists of a modified bow-tie driver to increase the bandwidth, a passive reflector and two passive directors to enhance the directivity at the lower and higher ends of the operating band, respectively. A microstrip-to-slotline transition feed is used to achi...

A multiband monopole antenna with modified fractal loop parasitic is presented. By adding bow-tie patches and a modified fractal loop to the sides and bottom of a strip line monopole, respectively, the presented antenna can generate the multi-resonant frequencies for the application of wireless communication systems. The characteristics of the presented antenna have been examined by using the s...

A bow-tie slot antenna with tapered connection to a 50Ω coplanar waveguide (CPW) feed line is introduced and its dimensional parameters have been studied for wideband operations in the X-band. A set of two element bow-tie slot antennas fed by one CPW is also introduced for wider bandwidth and improved gain. The configuration of one CPW feeding two elements of this antenna is simulated and it ac...

Here we present an antenna-integrated QCL which can be actively and optically modulated using light in the near infrared, creating an optical nanocircuit – coupling two different frequency antennas with a nonlinear active switching element. For our design, we chose two cross-polarized bow-tie antennas with an aligned central spot. We have used detailed FDTD simulations to choose the length of e...

For the purpose of wideband operations, a bow-tie slot antenna fed by a coplanar waveguide (CPW) is investigated. The design was realized using a tapered metal stub introduced in the middle of the bow-tie slot. The modified structure shows wider bandwidth over the conventional bow-tie slot antenna. Parametric study of this new antenna results in a design procedure that helps design this class o...

We propose and demonstrate a novel photonic-plasmonic antenna capable of confining electromagnetic radiation at several mid-infrared wavelengths to a single sub-wavelength spot. The structure relies on the coupling between the localized surface plasmon resonance of a bow-tie nanoantenna with the photonic modes of surrounding multi-periodic particle arrays. Far-field measurements of the transmis...

This paper presents a study on bow tie antenna with U-shape slot, designated for the Wireless applications. It is designed to work on a thick substrate (h = 1.6mm) with a high dielectric constant ( = 4.4) operating at three frequencies (2.4, 4 and 5GHz). Two U-shaped slots are introduced in the both sides of bow tie antenna in order to achieve a very low return loss at these frequencies. The an...

Present paper describes application of a computer intensive methodology to evaluate antenna susceptibility to random physical damage for a Dipole and a Bow-tie antenna. For each randomly generated damage pattern antenna parameters are simulated and statistical comparison is performed. Computer intensive statistical methods like the Bootstrap used for the post processing make fewer initial assum...