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A locally conformal FDTD analysis of a thin printed antenna for wideband wireless applications
Author(s) -
Cappelletti G.,
Caratelli D.,
Cicchetti R.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
international journal of numerical modelling: electronic networks, devices and fields
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.249
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1099-1204
pISSN - 0894-3370
DOI - 10.1002/jnm.775
Subject(s) - finite difference time domain method , wideband , electronic engineering , conformal map , acoustics , near and far field , wireless , computer science , antenna (radio) , electrical engineering , engineering , telecommunications , optics , physics , mathematics , geometry
A compact wideband planar‐printed antenna for wireless communications is presented. A suitable shape of the antenna arms and a proper tapering of the feeding line are employed to achieve an impedance bandwidth of more than 10 GHz useful to meet the requirements of several wireless communication standards. An enhanced locally conformal finite‐difference time‐domain (FDTD) numerical procedure, based on a suitable normalization of the electromagnetic field‐related quantities together with a near‐to‐far‐field transformation, is developed to perform the full‐wave analysis of the radiating structure. The proposed numerical procedure allows the accurate evaluation of the electromagnetic field distribution from the FDTD domain up to the far‐field region, achieving a reduced computational burden compared with conventional FDTD formulations. Using the proposed technique, the electromagnetic and circuital behaviour of the antenna is then derived and analyzed in detail. Numerical results concerning the antenna parameters are in good agreement with experimental measurements. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.