Acta Metallurgica Sinica(English letters) ›› 2015, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (6): 61-65.doi: 10.1016/S1005-8885(15)60695-1

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Novel ladder patch monopole antenna for UWB application

Han Yu’nan1,Ma Tao1, Zhang Hongxin2,Zhang Kexin2,Dai Lin3,Zhao Pengfei3   

  1. 1. College of Information Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China 2. School of Electrical Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China 3. Liaohe Petroleum Exploration Bureau Communication Company, Panjin 124010, China
  • Received:2015-01-07 Revised:2015-06-08 Online:2015-12-31 Published:2015-12-30
  • Contact: Yu-Nan HAN E-mail:clark-han@126.com
  • Supported by:
    This work was supported by the National Scholarship Foundation form China Scholarship Council (201208110396), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (ZY1113 and YS1404).

Abstract: A novel printed microstrip-fed ladder patch monopole antenna is presented for ultrawide band (UWB) application. The antenna consists of rectangular patch elements ladder arrayed at the both sides of the microstrip-fed line on a printed circuit board (PCB) and a rectangular ground plane. The antenna parameters of ladder number N, the rectangular patches geometry of ladder elements, the ladder step length and the length of ground plane are studied to obtain optimized antenna performances. The successfully designed, implemented and measured antenna has a compact size of 12 mm×12 mm and operation frequency band from 3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz with voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) less than 2. Using the ladder patch array in microstrip monopole antenna design makes antennas flexible in terms of controlling resonances, bandwidth, stable radiation patterns, and constant group delay.

Key words: monopole antenna, ladder patch, UWB, miniature, ladder patch

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