Reconfigurable antennas have attracted a lot of attention especially in future wireless communication systems. Superior features such as reconfigurable capability, low cost, multi-purpose functions and size miniaturization have given reconfigurable antennas advantage to be integrated into a wireless systems. In this chapter, two types of reconfigurable antennas are discussed. First, frequency r...

A large bandwidth wide-slot antenna, fed by coplanar waveguide (CPW), is proposed. Experimental investigations and detailed simulations are conducted to understand its behavior and to optimize for broadband operation. The impedance bandwidth, determined by 10-dB return loss of the proposed slot antenna using both measurement and simulation, is about 131% (2.8 to 14GHz). In addition to be small ...

-In this rapid changing world in wireless communication systems, multiband antenna has been playing a very important role for wireless service requirements. Rectangular line slot designs of a dual band patch antenna have been investigated in this paper. By using rectangular line slot patch geometry dual band operation has been obtained. The patch antenna is simulated by Ansoft HFSS and antenna ...

A novel compact proximity coupled microstrip antenna harmonic suppression with resonant at 2.45 GHz of rectenna application is presented in this paper using inexpensive FR4 substrate. An unbalanced slot has been fit on the radiating element to block the harmonic signals and achieve circularly polarized antenna. The evolution of the harmonic rejecting techniques began with a circular slot on the...

─ In this study, we present an UltraWideband (UWB) monopole antenna with bandnotched function. The proposed antenna is fed by a microstrip line. By using two modified forkshaped slots in the ground plane, bandwidth is increased that provides a wide usable fractional bandwidth of more than 135% (2.82-15.63). In order to achieve band-rejected performance, a cross-ring slot was inserted at the squ...

A compact planar monopole UWB antenna with quadruple band-notched characteristics is analyzed and presented. By introducing a C-shaped slot, nested C-shaped slot in the radiating patch and U-shaped slot in the feed line, quadruple band-notched characteristics are achieved at frequencies of 2.5, 3.7, 5.8 and 8.2 GHz. The proposed antenna has been fabricated and tested. Measured impedance bandwid...

The effects of a two-dimensional periodic dielectric substrate on the performance of a microstripfed wide slot antenna are investigated. The microstrip-feed and wide slot is placed on opposite sides of the periodic dielectric substrate. Method of Moment calculations using volume integral equations is employed to determine the effects of the substrate. It is proposed that by introducing a period...

A simple, compact, slot loaded stacked wideband microstrip patch antenna is presented in this communication. The radiating element consists of a rectangular patch with a Tshaped slot and is fed by a 50 Ω microstrip line. The proposed antenna is simulated using IE3D software, 12.32 version of Zeland. The simulated results show that the antenna can exhibit wideband characteristics. The impedance ...

A new kind of double short strip and single-side micro strip type antenna architecture to develop a frequency reconfigurable annular slot antenna. The design and characterization of this "reconfigurable antenna (RA) annular slot" which was built on a microwave laminate TMM10i Rogers (permittivity=9. 8, loss tangent=0. 002), are presented in this paper. By increasing and decreasing the...

This paper describes the design of Rectangular Microstrip Patch Antenna with Triangular Slot (RMPATS) at a frequency of f = 2. 4 GHz. The proposed antenna has been designed by introducing a triangular slot in the rectangular patch. The FR4-Epoxy with relative permittivity 4. 4 and height 1. 6 mm is used as substrate material. Antenna is fed by coaxial probe feed. The proposed antenna have accep...