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A novel pinwheel fractal multiband antenna design using particle swarm optimization for wireless applications
Author(s) -
Manikandan Palanivel,
Sivakumar Pothiraj
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of communication systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1099-1131
pISSN - 1074-5351
DOI - 10.1002/dac.4933
Subject(s) - fractal antenna , directivity , computer science , antenna (radio) , fractal , umts frequency bands , return loss , omnidirectional antenna , electronic engineering , acoustics , physics , antenna efficiency , electrical engineering , telecommunications , engineering , mathematics , mathematical analysis
Summary A novel multiband pinwheel fractal antenna with monopole configuration is proposed. The pinwheel fractal antenna has been fabricated on a commercially available FR4 substrate with a thickness of 1.6 mm. This paper proposes a novel pinwheel antenna with a 50% reduction in the dimension of width with a reduced level of return loss. The proposed antenna has multiband characteristics covering the bands of GSM (900 MHz), DCS (1710 GHz), PCS (1900 MHz), UMTS (1920 MHz), and WLAN (2.4–5.9 GHz) applications. The projected antenna resonates at multiple frequencies with acceptable antenna gain and directivity. The proposed antenna design is optimized by particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. The parametric studies and the design rule for the proposed fractal have been reported. The prototypes of the proposed multiband antenna have been demonstrated. The measured and simulated results ensure the multi‐resonance characteristics and authorize the projected design method and gratify the necessities of handheld wireless communication systems. The performance analysis proves that the proposed novel pinwheel antenna provides reduced return loss.