Compact Cauliflower-Shaped Antenna for Ultra-Wideband Applications

Authors

  • Boumediene Guenad Faculté des Technologiques, Université Hassiba Benbouali de Chlef, N19 Ouled Fares, Chlef, Algeria
  • Abdelhalim Chaabane Laboratoire des Télécommunications, Département d’Electronique et Télécommunications, Faculté des Sciences et de la Technologie, Université 8 Mai 1945 Guelma, BP 401, Guelma 24000, Algeria
  • Djelloul Aissaoui Faculté des sciences Technologiques, Université Ziane-Achour de Djelfa, Djelfa 17000, Algeria
  • Abdelhafid Bouacha Laboratoire De Télécommunications, Université De Tlemcen, BP 230, Pole Chetouane, Tlemcen 13000, Algeria
  • Tayeb A. Denidni Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique Centre EMT, 800 Rue De La Gauchetière West, Suite 6900, Montreal, Quebec, H5A-1K6, Canada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/2022.ACES.J.370108

Keywords:

Cauliflower-shaped antenna, coplanar waveguide (CPW) fed, hexagonal patch antenna, fractal geometry, ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna

Abstract

A compact coplanar waveguide (CPW) fed cauliflower-shaped antenna is presented and discussed in this paper. To extend the impedance bandwidth and to improve the impedance matching, fractal geometry having a cauliflower shape is introduced along the edges of the radiator. To validate the simulated results by experimental ones, a prototype of the designed antenna was fabricated on the RO-4350B substrate having a compact size of 0.3623λ0 × 0.41λ0 × 0.01524λ0 at 3 GHz. An Agilent 8722ES vector network was used for the reflection coefficient measurement revealing that the –10 dB bandwidth of the fabricated antenna offers an impedance bandwidth of 113% extending from 3.05 to 10.96 GHz. Besides, the antenna’s radiation patterns are measured in an anechoic chamber showing consistent radiation patterns characteristic over the entire working band. Furthermore, the proposed antenna has a peak gain of around 6 dBi and an average radiation efficiency almost over 90% across the entire operating band. Thus, the proposed antenna could be useful in many modern ultra-wideband (UWB) communication systems.

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Author Biographies

Boumediene Guenad , Faculté des Technologiques, Université Hassiba Benbouali de Chlef, N19 Ouled Fares, Chlef, Algeria

Boumediene Guenad received the magister degree in signals and systems and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications science from the University of Tlemcen, Tlemcen, Algeria, in 2005 and 2013, respectively.

He is currently working as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Technology, University of Chlef, Ouled Farès, Algeria, and a Researcher Member of the Telecommunications Laboratory of Tlemcen (LTT), Tlemcen, Algeria. His current research areas of interest include multi-beam antenna arrays, fractal antennas, ultra-wideband antennas, and meta materialantennas.

Abdelhalim Chaabane , Laboratoire des Télécommunications, Département d’Electronique et Télécommunications, Faculté des Sciences et de la Technologie, Université 8 Mai 1945 Guelma, BP 401, Guelma 24000, Algeria

Abdelhalim Chaabane received the Ph.D. degree and completed his habilitation in electronics in 2017 and 2020,respectively.

He is currently working as an Associate Professor with the Université 8 Mai 1945 Guelma, Algeria. He is a member of Telecommunications Laboratory, Université 8 Mai 1945 Guelma. His current research areas of interest include fractal antennas, ultra-wideband antennas, meta material antennas, and ground-penetrating radar antennas.

Djelloul Aissaoui , Faculté des sciences Technologiques, Université Ziane-Achour de Djelfa, Djelfa 17000, Algeria

Djelloul Aissaoui received the magister degree in signals and systems and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications science from the University of Tlemcen, Tlemcen, Algeria, in 2007 and 2019, respectively.

He is currently working as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Djelfa, Djelfa, Algeria. His current research areas of interest include fractal antennas, ultra-wideband antennas, and meta material antennas.

Abdelhafid Bouacha , Laboratoire De Télécommunications, Université De Tlemcen, BP 230, Pole Chetouane, Tlemcen 13000, Algeria

Abdelhafid Bouacha received the magister degree in signals and systems and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications science from the University of Tlemcen, Tlemcen, Algeria, in 2005 and 2012,respectively.

He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Telecommunications Department, Faculty of Technology, University of Tlemcen and a Research Member of the Telecommunications Laboratory of Tlemcen (LTT). His current research activities are focused on advanced antenna systems for 5G network and beyond.

Tayeb A. Denidni , Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique Centre EMT, 800 Rue De La Gauchetière West, Suite 6900, Montreal, Quebec, H5A-1K6, Canada

Tayeb A. Denidni received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Laval University, Quebec City, QC, Canada, in 1990 and 1994, respectively.

From 1994 to 2000, he was a Professor with the Engineering Department, Université du Quebec in Rimouski (UQAR), Rimouski, QC, Canada, where he founded the Telecommunications Laboratory. Since August 2000, he has been with the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Université du Quebec, Montreal, QC, Canada. His current research areas of interest include reconfigurable antennas using EBG and FSS structures, dielectric resonator antennas, meta material antennas, adaptive arrays, switched multi-beam antenna arrays, ultra-wideband antennas, microwave and development for wireless communications systems.

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Published

2022-05-04

How to Cite

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B. . Guenad, A. . Chaabane, D. . Aissaoui, A. . Bouacha, and T. A. . Denidni, “Compact Cauliflower-Shaped Antenna for Ultra-Wideband Applications”, ACES Journal, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 68–77, May 2022.

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