Open AccessBandwidth Enhancement of a Bell-shaped UWB Antenna for Indoor Localization Systems
Author(s) -
Mohamed Salah Karoui,
Nadia Ghariani,
Mongi Lahiani,
Hamadi Ghariani
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
engineering, technology and applied science research/engineering, technology and applied science research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2241-4487
pISSN - 1792-8036
DOI - 10.48084/etasr.3975
Subject(s) - bandwidth (computing) , ranging , ground plane , acoustics , ultra wideband , computer science , microstrip antenna , antenna (radio) , electronic engineering , physics , telecommunications , engineering
In this paper, a simple method of enhancing the bandwidth of the Bell-shaped UWB Antenna for indoor localization systems is proposed. Therefore, a modified version of the bell-shaped Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) antenna for indoor localization systems is presented. The proposed antenna is printed on a low-cost FR-4 substrate of 21×27×1.6mm3 size. It is composed of a bell-shaped radiating patch and a multi-slotted ground plane. The measured results show that the proposed antenna has an impedance bandwidth of about 11.2GHz ranging from 3.16GHz to 14.36GHz at S11<−10dB. Compared to the original version, an enhancement of about 5.56GHz in the measured impedance bandwidth was observed.