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2013-04-24
Design of a Novel Super Wide Band Circular-Hexagonal Fractal Antenna
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Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 139, 229-245, 2013
Abstract
In this paper, a novel circular-hexagonal fractal antenna is investigated for super wide band applications. The proposed antenna is made of iterations of a hexagonal slot inside a circular metallic patch with a transmission line. A partial ground plane and asymmetrical patch toward the substrate are used for designing the antenna to achieve a super wide bandwidth ranging from 2.18 GHz to 44.5 GHz with bandwidth ratio 20.4 : 1. The impedance bandwidth and gain of the proposed antenna are improved than the recently reported antennas which make it appropriate for many wireless communications systems such as ISM, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, WLAN and UWB. Details of the proposed antenna design are presented and discussed.
Citation
Mohammad Ali Dorostkar, Mohammad Tariqul Islam, and Rezaul Azim, "Design of a Novel Super Wide Band Circular-Hexagonal Fractal Antenna," Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 139, 229-245, 2013.
doi:10.2528/PIER13030505
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