Progress in Electromagnetics Research C, Vol. 6, 93-102, 2009
Progress in Electromagnetics Research C, Vol. 6, 93-102, 2009
Progress in Electromagnetics Research C, Vol. 6, 93-102, 2009
6, 93102, 2009
E. Wang
Information Engineering College of NCUT
China
J. Zheng
Beijing Electro-mechanical Engineering Institute
China
Y. Liu
Information Engineering College of NCUT
China
1. INTRODUCTION
2.4 GHz band (2.42.483 GHz), and it must be shifted to the higher
and more abundant band 4.9 GHz (4.95.1 GHz) and 5.2 GHz (5.15
5.35 GHz) with the development of WLAN. So there is a need of dual
band transceiver working at these frequency bands.
The organic magnetic materials have stable magnetic perfor-
mance, higher permeability and permittivity so that microstrip an-
tennas on such a material are characterized with compact size, wide
band, and simple structure and are easy to be fabricated. Some kinds
of antennas with magnetic materials have been reported for different
purposes [14].
Microstrip patch antennas are attractive and popular antenna due
to their natural advantages such as light weight, conformability and
low costs. Dual-band operation is an important subject in microstrip
antenna designs [5, 6]. Recently, several designs of the dual-band slot-
loaded microstrip antennas have been reported [79]. These related
dual-band designs are achieved by embedding a narrow arc-shaped slot
or placing an open-ring slot close to the boundary of the patch [10, 11].
However, the antennas adopted these designs have narrow impedance
bandwidths of the two operating frequencies, usually on the order of 2%
or less. In this paper, we present a novel dual-band WLAN antenna
printed on organic magnetic material, and report the results of the
proposed antenna on its S11 characteristic along with the radiation
patterns.
2. ANTENNA STRUCTURE
bandwidths of 2.42.483 GHz and 4.95.35 GHz are below 11 dB. The
S-parameter of the antenna was measured using Agilent 8753D network
analyzer. The simulated radiation patterns of the antenna at 2.45 GHz
are shown in Figure 4 and Figure 5. Figure 6 and Figure 7 show
the simulated radiation patterns of the antenna at 5.2 GHz. For the
antenna, the lower operating band has a peak gain of 3.8 dBi, and that
of the higher band is 5.8 dBi. The two operating bands of the proposed
antenna are of the same polarization planes and also have similar
radiation characteristics. Figure 8 and Figure 9 is the E plane and H
plane radiation pattern of experiment results at 2.45 GHz. Figure 10
and Figure 11 are the E-plane and H-plane radiation patterns of
experiment results at 5.2 GHz. The patterns are found to be stable
across their passbands, and the results at other frequencies are not
shown for brevity. However, the wider bandwidth may be come from
the larger magnetic loss. Thus, its gain will be decreased as the
payment for the bandwidth broadening. The application prospect of
the antenna can be attractive if we pay more efforts to improve the
antenna gain. Comparing with rectangular microstrip antennas on
normal dielectric substrate, the overall size of this antenna is reduced
by 40% [10].
4. CONCLUSIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
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