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Compact Wideband Single-Side Printed Antenna for Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Wireless Communications

Hagar A. Farag,

Dr. Hagar A. Farag

Belbis High Institute of Engineering

Egypt

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Asmaa Elsayed Farahat,

Dr. Asmaa Elsayed Farahat

Microwave Engineering Department

Electronics Research Institute

Egypt

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Ahmed I. Bahnas,

Dr. Ahmed I. Bahnas

Faculty of Engineering

Menoufia University

Egypt

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Khalid Fawzy Ahmed Hussein

Professor Khalid Fawzy Ahmed Hussein

Microwave Engineering Department

Electronics Research Institute

Egypt

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Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, Vol. 126, 39-47, 2022

doi:10.2528/PIERC22091507

Abstract

A novel miniature antenna is proposed for wireless communications in the K-band and Ka-band of the electromagnetic spectrum. The frequency band of this antenna extends from 18 to 40 GHz. The proposed antenna is a planar monopole printed on a thin dielectric substrate of 0.25 mm thickness. To enhance the frequency bandwidth of this antenna it is constructed as five circular sectors placed with sequential rotations and merged to form a multi-leaf shaped monopole patch antenna. To enhance the antenna performance, the monopole patch is fed through a coplanar waveguide (CPW) structure. This enables the overall antenna structure and the feeding CPW to be printed on only one side of the dielectric substrate leaving the other side blank, which reduces the dielectric loss and enhances the radiation efficiency. The assessment of the antenna performance is achieved through simulation as well as experimental work. A prototype of the antenna is fabricated for this purpose. The experimental results show excellent agreement with the simulation ones. The antenna is printed on a Rogers' RO3003 substrate of 0.25 mm thickness. It is shown, through both results, that the antenna has 2.2:1 ratio bandwidth, 76% percentage bandwidth, and 278 bandwidth-dimension ratio. The radiation efficiency is maintained above 99% over the entire bandwidth (18-40 GHz).

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Hagar A. Farag, Asmaa Elsayed Farahat, Ahmed I. Bahnas, and Khalid Fawzy Ahmed Hussein, "Compact Wideband Single-Side Printed Antenna for Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Wireless Communications," Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, Vol. 126, 39-47, 2022.
doi:10.2528/PIERC22091507

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