Experimental Investigation of CPW Fed Fractal Array Antenna

This paper experimentally investigates the performance of a set of simple two element coplanar waveguide (CPW) fed fractal array antennas. The design is based on the single square microstrip patch antenna, operating at 1.57s GHz. This is the frequency of operation of a Global Positioning Satellite s...

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Main Authors: Murad, N.A., Esa, Mazlina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2003
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/1996/
http://eprints.utm.my/1996/1/article173_mazlina.pdf
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description This paper experimentally investigates the performance of a set of simple two element coplanar waveguide (CPW) fed fractal array antennas. The design is based on the single square microstrip patch antenna, operating at 1.57s GHz. This is the frequency of operation of a Global Positioning Satellite system receiving antenna. The basic patch antenna undergoes the first and second iteration process to form the first and second iteration fractal structures. The array elements are equally spaced between their corresponding centres. Through experimental investigations, it was found that the fractal antenna array operates at lower frequency of operations compared to the basic two element square patch antenna. The second iteration fractal array antenna has the lowest operating frequency, indicating a much more compact radiating structure. However, the reflection bandwidth decreases.
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spelling utm-19962010-06-01T03:00:10Z http://eprints.utm.my/1996/ Experimental Investigation of CPW Fed Fractal Array Antenna Murad, N.A. Esa, Mazlina TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering This paper experimentally investigates the performance of a set of simple two element coplanar waveguide (CPW) fed fractal array antennas. The design is based on the single square microstrip patch antenna, operating at 1.57s GHz. This is the frequency of operation of a Global Positioning Satellite system receiving antenna. The basic patch antenna undergoes the first and second iteration process to form the first and second iteration fractal structures. The array elements are equally spaced between their corresponding centres. Through experimental investigations, it was found that the fractal antenna array operates at lower frequency of operations compared to the basic two element square patch antenna. The second iteration fractal array antenna has the lowest operating frequency, indicating a much more compact radiating structure. However, the reflection bandwidth decreases. 2003 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/1996/1/article173_mazlina.pdf Murad, N.A. and Esa, Mazlina (2003) Experimental Investigation of CPW Fed Fractal Array Antenna. 2003 Asia-Pacific Conference on Applied Electromagnetics (APACE 2003), Shah Alam, Malaysia . pp. 58-62.
spellingShingle TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Murad, N.A.
Esa, Mazlina
Experimental Investigation of CPW Fed Fractal Array Antenna
title Experimental Investigation of CPW Fed Fractal Array Antenna
title_full Experimental Investigation of CPW Fed Fractal Array Antenna
title_fullStr Experimental Investigation of CPW Fed Fractal Array Antenna
title_full_unstemmed Experimental Investigation of CPW Fed Fractal Array Antenna
title_short Experimental Investigation of CPW Fed Fractal Array Antenna
title_sort experimental investigation of cpw fed fractal array antenna
topic TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
url http://eprints.utm.my/1996/
http://eprints.utm.my/1996/1/article173_mazlina.pdf