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Improving the bandwidth of a microstrip antenna with a circular‐shaped fractal slot
Author(s) -
Dholakiya Hitesh L.,
Pujara Dhaval A.
Publication year - 2013
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.27424
Subject(s) - fractal antenna , return loss , bandwidth (computing) , microstrip , microstrip antenna , fractal , microwave , parametric statistics , patch antenna , electronic engineering , engineering , acoustics , physics , optics , computer science , antenna (radio) , telecommunications , mathematics , coaxial antenna , mathematical analysis , statistics
This article presents the design of a microstrip‐line fed printed antenna with a circular‐shaped fractal slot. It is experimentally verified that such a design results in bandwidth (better than −10 dB return‐loss) enhancement of up to 52.8%. The results of parametric study for different iteration factors (IF) and iteration orders (IO) are also presented. For the proposed design, better than 4 dB gain was practically achieved over a frequency band of 2–6 GHz. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 55:786–789, 2013; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com. DOI: 10.1002/mop.27424