Fractal Sectoral Monopole Antenna for UWB Band Applications

Authors

  • A. H. Majeed Department of Information and Communication Engineering, College of Information EngineeringAl-Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq
  • K. H. Sayidmarie College of Electronic Engineering, Ninevah University, Mosul, Iraq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/2022.ACES.J.370810

Keywords:

Bandwidth Extension, Fractal antennas, Monopole antennas, Stubs, UWB

Abstract

This paper proposes a fractal monopole antenna based on a sectoral-shaped patch. To improve the
gain of the proposed antenna over a larger bandwidth, the matching was enhanced by attaching two rectangular stubs to the feeding line. The antenna, which is built on an FR4 epoxy substrate with εr =4.3 and a loss tangent of 0.018 has a compact size of 28 mm×31 mm×1.6 mm. The antenna covers the UWB range and extends to about the 22 GHz frequency, as well as offers omnidirectional radiation patterns. The optimized configuration was fabricated and tested. The impedance bandwidth of the proposed antenna is about 155% with a reflection coefficient better than −10 dB and has a maximum gain of nearly 4 dBi with a relatively stable omnidirectional radiation pattern.

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Author Biographies

A. H. Majeed, Department of Information and Communication Engineering, College of Information EngineeringAl-Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq

Asmaa H. Majeed received B.Sc. Degree in Electronic and Communication from the Department of Electrical Engineering,the University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq, then an M.Sc degree in Electronic and Communication from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Baghdad University, Baghdad, Iraq. She then received a Ph.D. in Electronic and Communication from the Department of Electrical Engineering/Basrah University, Basrah, Iraq. She has approximately 14 years of teaching experience. She is a member of the teaching staff at the Department of Information and Communication Engineering, College of Information Engineering, Al-Nahrain University, Iraq. She has published 17 papers in national and international journals/conferences. Her research interests include the analysis and design of printed antennas.

K. H. Sayidmarie, College of Electronic Engineering, Ninevah University, Mosul, Iraq

Khalil Sayidmarie received a B.Sc. degree with first-class honors in Electronic & Communication Engineering from Mosul University, Iraq, in 1976, and a Ph.D. in Antennas & Propagation from Sheffield University, U.K. in 1981. Then he joined the College of Engineering at Mosul University in 1983 and was promoted to full professor in 1992. He worked as the head of the electrical engineering department for 9 years. He was a co-founder of the College of Electronic Engineering at Mosul University. He has been a professor of communication engineering at that college. Sayidmarie served as a professor of communication engineering at the College of Engineering, University of Amman Al-Ahliyya, Jordan from Oct 2006 to Sept 2009. He is a professor of communication engineering at the College of Electronic Engineering, Ninevah University. He has supervised 45 MSc and Ph.D. theses and published more than 140 papers.

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2023-01-02

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A. H. . Majeed and K. H. . Sayidmarie, “Fractal Sectoral Monopole Antenna for UWB Band Applications”, ACES Journal, vol. 37, no. 08, pp. 912–920, Jan. 2023.

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