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Design of Yagi‐like printed antennas for WLAN applications
Author(s) -
ÁvilaNavarro E.,
Carrasco J. A.,
Reig C.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.22655
Subject(s) - microwave , printed circuit board , broadband , finite difference time domain method , electronic engineering , engineering , antenna (radio) , electrical engineering , telecommunications , physics , optics
A directive broadband printed Yagi‐like antenna design is presented. We have focused on the 2.45 GHz WLAN band, at which some designs have been carried out. For the design and the modelling processes, we made use of FDTD based in‐house developed algorithms. Some selected prototypes have then been fabricated onto a low‐cost printed circuit board dielectric substrate and tested successfully. Bandwidths higher than 10% and moderate to high (>7 dBi) gains can be obtained this way. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 49: 2174–2178, 2007; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.22655