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The Characteristics of Koch Island Microstrip Patch Antenna

  • Kim, Il-Kwon (Department of Eletrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University) ;
  • Yook, Jong-Gwan (Department of Eletrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University) ;
  • Park, Han-Kyu (Department of Eletrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University)
  • Published : 2003.03.01
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Abstract

In this paper, the characteristics of Koch island microstrip patch antenna are investigated by numerical and experimental methods. The Koch patch is fractal shaped antenna which can be characterized by two properties such as space-filling and self-similarity. Due to its space-filling property of fractal structure, the proposed Koch fractal patch antennas are smaller in size than that of conventional square patch antenna. From numerical and experimental results, it is found that as the iteration number and iteration factor of Koch patch increase, its resonance frequency becomes lower than that of conventional patch, thus contributes to antenna size reduction. In particular, when the fractal iteration factor is 1/4, the fractal antenna is 45% smaller in size than that of conventional patch, while maintaining radiation patterns comparable to those of rectangular antenna and cross polarization level is about -20~-14 dB.

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