TY - JOUR
T1 - A compact semi-circular and arc-shaped slot antenna for heterogeneous RF front-ends
AU - Zebiri, Chemseddine
AU - Sayad, Djamel
AU - Elfergani, Issa
AU - Iqbal, Amjad
AU - Mshwat, Widad F.A.
AU - Kosha, Jamal
AU - Rodriguez, Jonathan
AU - Abd-Alhameed, Raed
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016 SECRET-722424. This work is also funded by the FCT/MEC through national funds and when applicable co-financed by the ERDF, under the PT2020 Partnership Agreement under the UID/EEA/50008/2019 project.
Funding Information:
Acknowledgments: This work is supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program under grant agreement H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016-SECRET-722424. This work is part of the POSITION-II project funded by the ECSEL joint Undertaking under grant number Ecsel-7831132-Postitio-II-2017-IA, www.position-2.eu.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Copyright:
Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/10/5
Y1 - 2019/10/5
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Arc-shaped
KW - Dual-band
KW - Medical applications
KW - Miniaturized antenna
KW - Slot antenna
U2 - 10.3390/electronics8101123
DO - 10.3390/electronics8101123
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85073751414
SN - 2079-9292
VL - 8
JO - Electronics (Switzerland)
JF - Electronics (Switzerland)
IS - 10
M1 - 1123
ER -