{"title":"Experimental investigations of an omni-directional dielectric resonator antenna for UWB systems","authors":"I. Messaoudene, T. Denidni, A. Benghalia","doi":"10.1109/EUCAP.2014.6902440","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a new dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) is presented and investigated for ultra wideband (UWB) applications. The UWB antenna has a U-shape and excited by a microstip fed monopole. The proposed antenna was simulated and designed using two electromagnetic simulators. To validate our design, a prototype antenna was fabricated and measured. From the measurements, the U-shaped DRA has a 117.6% impedance bandwidth (from 2.94 GHz to 11.34 GHz, for return loss below -10 dB, largely covering the UWB spectrum band). Moreover, the proposed antenna provides an omni-directional radiation pattern. With these features, the present antenna can be used in ultra-wideband wireless systems.","PeriodicalId":22362,"journal":{"name":"The 8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2014)","volume":"46 1","pages":"2925-2927"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2014-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The 8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2014)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUCAP.2014.6902440","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In this paper, a new dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) is presented and investigated for ultra wideband (UWB) applications. The UWB antenna has a U-shape and excited by a microstip fed monopole. The proposed antenna was simulated and designed using two electromagnetic simulators. To validate our design, a prototype antenna was fabricated and measured. From the measurements, the U-shaped DRA has a 117.6% impedance bandwidth (from 2.94 GHz to 11.34 GHz, for return loss below -10 dB, largely covering the UWB spectrum band). Moreover, the proposed antenna provides an omni-directional radiation pattern. With these features, the present antenna can be used in ultra-wideband wireless systems.