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http://dx.doi.org/10.12673/jkoni.2012.16.5.766

Design of wideband microstrip monopole slot antenna  

Lee, Young-Soon (Department of Electronic Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology)
Cho, Yun-Ki (Department of Advance test team, SL Corporation)
Abstract
In the present study, wideband microstrip monopole slot antennas which can be applied to the RF4CE Zigbee remote controller are designed. First I-shaped monopole slot antenna which has ${\lambda}g/4$ length at 2.45GHz is designed. In particular, a conducting via is used to connect the microstrip feed line and the ground plane surrounded with the etched slot for the bandwidth improvement. In order to reduce the antenna size, it is changed into L-shaped and T-shaped monopole slot antennas for which improve results of antenna performance are observed. In case of T-shaped monopole slot antenna, impedance bandwidth(VSWR<2) is about 3.32GHz, and also its radiation efficiency and gain is more than 90% and 2.1dBi respectively at whole operating frequency range. In particular, all of proposed monopole slot antennas have the end-fire radiations which has a maximum radiation power toward direction of open ends of monopole slots.
Keywords
Zigbee RF4CE; wireless remote control; monopole slot antenna; broadband; end-fire radiation;
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