Low-Profile Dual-Band Stacked Microstrip Monopolar Patch Antenna for WLAN and Car-to-Car Communications

In this paper, a low-profile dual-band stacked microstrip monopolar patch antenna is proposed. By utilizing a stacked-patch configuration, a dual-band property is achieved. A coupled annular ring and a set of conductive vias are loaded into the antenna structure to widen the impedance bandwidth. In...

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Main Authors: Shuai Gao, Lei Ge, Dengguo Zhang, Wei Qin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2018-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8502034/
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spelling doaj-2aa6f83e45a34557ab33c6b56599ff7a2021-03-29T21:36:49ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362018-01-016695756958110.1109/ACCESS.2018.28774208502034Low-Profile Dual-Band Stacked Microstrip Monopolar Patch Antenna for WLAN and Car-to-Car CommunicationsShuai Gao0Lei Ge1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9377-2530Dengguo Zhang2Wei Qin3College of Electronic Science and Technology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, ChinaCollege of Electronic Science and Technology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, ChinaCollege of Electronic Science and Technology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, ChinaSchool of Electronics and Information, Nantong University, Nantong, ChinaIn this paper, a low-profile dual-band stacked microstrip monopolar patch antenna is proposed. By utilizing a stacked-patch configuration, a dual-band property is achieved. A coupled annular ring and a set of conductive vias are loaded into the antenna structure to widen the impedance bandwidth. In order to verify the performance of the proposed antenna, a fully functional prototype was fabricated and measured. The measured results demonstrate that the antenna can achieve impedance bandwidths from 2.24 to 2.53 GHz in the low band and from 5.42 to 5.98 GHz in the high band, separately. Within the operating frequency, omnidirectional radiation patterns are also observed. Besides, the proposed antenna possesses a low-profile structure with a height of 4.175 mm or 0.057&#x03BB;<sub>0</sub> (where &#x03BB;<sub>0</sub> is the free-space wavelength of 4.1 GHz), which can be easily hidden on the top of a vehicle. With these merits, the proposed design is very appropriate for wireless local area network (2.4-2.48 GHz and 5.75-5.825 GHz) and car-to-car (5.85-5.925 GHz) communications.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8502034/Low profiledual-band antennamonopolar patch antennawireless local area network (WLAN)car-to-car (C2C)
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Lei Ge
Dengguo Zhang
Wei Qin
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Lei Ge
Dengguo Zhang
Wei Qin
Low-Profile Dual-Band Stacked Microstrip Monopolar Patch Antenna for WLAN and Car-to-Car Communications
IEEE Access
Low profile
dual-band antenna
monopolar patch antenna
wireless local area network (WLAN)
car-to-car (C2C)
author_facet Shuai Gao
Lei Ge
Dengguo Zhang
Wei Qin
author_sort Shuai Gao
title Low-Profile Dual-Band Stacked Microstrip Monopolar Patch Antenna for WLAN and Car-to-Car Communications
title_short Low-Profile Dual-Band Stacked Microstrip Monopolar Patch Antenna for WLAN and Car-to-Car Communications
title_full Low-Profile Dual-Band Stacked Microstrip Monopolar Patch Antenna for WLAN and Car-to-Car Communications
title_fullStr Low-Profile Dual-Band Stacked Microstrip Monopolar Patch Antenna for WLAN and Car-to-Car Communications
title_full_unstemmed Low-Profile Dual-Band Stacked Microstrip Monopolar Patch Antenna for WLAN and Car-to-Car Communications
title_sort low-profile dual-band stacked microstrip monopolar patch antenna for wlan and car-to-car communications
publisher IEEE
series IEEE Access
issn 2169-3536
publishDate 2018-01-01
description In this paper, a low-profile dual-band stacked microstrip monopolar patch antenna is proposed. By utilizing a stacked-patch configuration, a dual-band property is achieved. A coupled annular ring and a set of conductive vias are loaded into the antenna structure to widen the impedance bandwidth. In order to verify the performance of the proposed antenna, a fully functional prototype was fabricated and measured. The measured results demonstrate that the antenna can achieve impedance bandwidths from 2.24 to 2.53 GHz in the low band and from 5.42 to 5.98 GHz in the high band, separately. Within the operating frequency, omnidirectional radiation patterns are also observed. Besides, the proposed antenna possesses a low-profile structure with a height of 4.175 mm or 0.057&#x03BB;<sub>0</sub> (where &#x03BB;<sub>0</sub> is the free-space wavelength of 4.1 GHz), which can be easily hidden on the top of a vehicle. With these merits, the proposed design is very appropriate for wireless local area network (2.4-2.48 GHz and 5.75-5.825 GHz) and car-to-car (5.85-5.925 GHz) communications.
topic Low profile
dual-band antenna
monopolar patch antenna
wireless local area network (WLAN)
car-to-car (C2C)
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8502034/
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