Journal of Computer and Communications

Volume 3, Issue 3 (March 2015)

ISSN Print: 2327-5219   ISSN Online: 2327-5227

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Design of an 868 MHz Printed S-Shape Monopole Antenna

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DOI: 10.4236/jcc.2015.33009    8,105 Downloads   11,805 Views  Citations

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this work is to design and analyze an s-shaped printed circuit board (PCB) monopole antenna. The antenna was analyzed to operate at a resonance frequency band of 868 MHz; acceptable in 915 MHz as well. The s-shape is selected due to the need of reducing the overall size of the normal monopole antenna. The printed antenna was designed with an approximate overall size of 39 × 56 mm2 of which the antenna’s upper side is 26 × 39 mm2 while its reference ground board was sized at 39 × 30 mm2. The antenna is fed by a strip line of 3 × 1.5 mm2, in series with a 4.4 pF capacitance and shunt with an 8.7 nH inductance for purpose of antenna’s impedance matching with the input. A couple of existing publications showed that PCB antenna is not a new technology; however not an old technology for telecommunication industry. The raised problem by this work was duly solved with HFSS as a tool; excellent results are presented. After duly matching the antenna’s impedance with 50 Ω microstrip feed-line, solutions for overall performance were analyzed and demonstrated optimal: radiation patterns were proven omnidirectional, antenna gain optimized. The present antenna prototype’s overall dimensions can be readjusted according to any industrial and manufacturing requests.

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Rushingabigwi, G. and Sun, L. (2015) Design of an 868 MHz Printed S-Shape Monopole Antenna. Journal of Computer and Communications, 3, 49-55. doi: 10.4236/jcc.2015.33009.

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