A compact semi-circular and arc-shaped slot antenna for heterogeneous RF front-ends

Chemseddine Zebiri, Djamel Sayad, Issa Elfergani*, Amjad Iqbal, Widad F.A. Mshwat, Jamal Kosha, Jonathan Rodriguez, Raed Abd-Alhameed

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Abstract

In this paper, a new miniaturized compact dual-band microstrip slot antenna is presented. To achieve the dual-band characteristics, two adjunct partial arc-shaped small slots are joined to two main circular slots embedded in the ground of the antenna structure. With a reduced size of 30 × 28.5 × 0.8 mm3, the proposed antenna presents a dual-band characteristic. The design is optimized using a High Frequency Structure Simulator (HFSS) followed by experimental verifications. An impedance bandwidth, for S11≤10 dB, that covers the 1.8 GHz and 2.4 GHz bands is accomplished, which makes the proposed antenna basically suitable for hand-held devices and medical applications. More applications such as digital communication system (DCS) 1.71–1.88 GHz, personal communication services (PCS) 1.85–1.99 GHz, Universal and mobile telecommunications system UMTS 1.92–2.17 GHz, Bluetooth 2.4–2.5 GHz, and Wi-Fi 2.4–2.454 GHz, Industrial Scientific and Medical radio frequency (RF) band ISM-2.4 GHz, Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN-2.4)are possible by simply changing one of the geometrical antenna dimensions. The antenna is characterized by stable radiation patterns as well.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1123
JournalElectronics (Switzerland)
Volume8
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 5 Oct 2019
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Arc-shaped
  • Dual-band
  • Medical applications
  • Miniaturized antenna
  • Slot antenna

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