This dual-band CMOS receiver for GSM and DCS1800 applications incorporates hardware sharing between two paths to reduce the number of off-chip components [1]. The receiver is an extension of the Weaver single-sideband architecture [2]. Utilized in References 3 and 4, the Weaver architecture performs two consecutive quadrature downconversion operations on the signal and the image such that if th...

Band-notch characteristic has been of great interest recently to overcome the electromagnetic interference of Ultra-wideband systems (UWB) with other existing ones. In this paper, we present a novel microstrip-fed antenna with band rejection property appropriate for UWB applications. Band-notch characteristic has been achieved by adding a rectangular resonant element to the ground section. A pr...

A dual-band printed dipole antenna with integrated balun feed is given in this paper. First, the fork-shaped slot is etched on the arms of the printed dipole antenna to achieve the dual-band operation with resonances at WLAN bands. The radiating element without balun is optimized and operates at 2.4 GHz (2180–2750MHz) and 5.2GHz (5040 MHz–5480MHz) where return loss is less than −10 dB. In order...

A novel FSS-Backed reflectarray unit cell is introduced to design a dual-band X/Ku Reflectarray Antenna (RA). A Kuband RA based on this FSS-Backed cell element is designed and located on the top of a conventional X-band RA. Actually, the band-stop Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) property is applied to a wideband element to create isolation between X and Ku band RAs which utilizing the same ra...

A step-impedance bandpass filter is presented for multimode wireless LANs. The filter has a new dual-band feature of two tunable passbands at desired frequencies and high out-of-band suppression, generated by incorporating step-impedance resonators in a comb-filter topology. It saves more than half the circuit size compared with the switch-type dual-band topology. The simulation and measurement...

A compact dual-band electromagnetic band-gap (EBG) structure is proposed. It is shown through numerical simulation using 3D electromagnetic finite element modelling that by adding a slit to the classical mushroom shape an extra resonance is introduced and thus dual-band EBG structures can be built by cascading these new elements. It is also demonstrated that this novel approach can be used to i...

Coupled resonators are widely used in the design of filters with dual-passband responses. In this paper, we present a dual-band bandpass filter using only couplings between adjacent resonators without cross-couplings. The dual-band bandpass filter with centre frequencies of 1747MHz and 1879MHz respectively is designed and fabricated using microstrip U-shaped resonators. Using the coupled resona...

This paper demonstrates the Dual band Broadband microstrip patch antenna with air gap for wireless applications with improved bandwidth and gain. The antenna have dual bandwidths of 860MHz (4.40GHz – 5.26GHz) or 17.61% and 1670MHz (5.33GHz – 7GHz) or 27.08% covers four bands of WLAN and one band of Wi-Max and one band of IMT. The designed antenna has four resonant frequencies 4.52GHz, 5.67GHz, ...