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Design of Compact Stepped Open Slot Antenna for UWB Applications

UWB 응용을 위한 소형 계단형 개방 슬롯 안테나 설계

  • Yeo, Junho (School of Computer and Communication Engineering/Information and Communication Research Center, Daegu University) ;
  • Lee, Jong-Ig (Division of Mechatronics Engineering, Dongseo University)
  • Received : 2016.08.02
  • Accepted : 2016.08.19
  • Published : 2017.01.31
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Abstract

In this paper, a design method for a compact stepped open slot antenna for an operation in the UWB band is studied. The proposed antenna is miniaturized by inserting L-shaped slots on the ground plane of the stepped open slot antenna through the creation of a resonance in the low frequency, and a strip director is appended to the antenna in order to increase the gain in the middle and high frequency regions. The effects of varying the length of the L-shaped slots, the distance between the director and the slot antenna, and the director length on input reflection coefficient and realized gain characteristics of the proposed antenna are analyzed. The optimized antenna with the size of $30mm{\times}30mm$ is fabricated on an FR4 substrate, and the experiment results show that the antenna has a frequency band of 3.02-11.04 GHz for a VSWR < 2, which assures the operation in the UWB band.

본 논문에서는 ultra wide band(UWB) 대역(3.1-10.6 GHz)에서 동작하는 소형 계단형 개방 슬롯 안테나의 설계 방법에 대하여 연구하였다. 계단형 개방 슬롯 안테나의 접지면에 L형 슬롯을 추가하여 낮은 주파수에서 공진이 발생하도록 하여 소형화하고, 중간주파수 및 고주파수 대역에서 이득을 높이기 위해 스트립 도파기를 추가하였다. L형 슬롯의 길이, 도파기와 슬롯 안테나 사이의 간격 및 도파기의 길이에 따른 입력 반사계수와 이득 특성을 분석하였다. $30mm{\times}30mm$ 크기로 최적화된 안테나를 FR4 기판 상에 제작하고 특성을 실험한 결과 전압 정재파비(voltage standing wave ratio; VSWR)가 2 이하인 대역은 3.02-11.04 GHz으로 UWB 대역에서 동작함을 확인하였다.

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