Multiband CPW-Fed Slot Antenna with L-slot Bowtie Tuning Stub

This paper presents a multiband CPW-fed slot antenna with L-slot bowtie tuning stub. The proposed antenna has been designed for PCS 1900, UMTS, WLAN 802.11 a/b/g and bluetooth applications, with a cost-effective FR4 substrate. The proposed antenna still radiate as omni-directional in azimuth plane and sufficient bandwidth for all above mentions. The proposed antenna works as dual-wideband, bandwidth at low frequency band and high frequency are about 45.49 % and 22.39 % respectively. The experimental results of the constructed prototype are presented and also compared with simulation results using a commercial software tool.

Authors:

• Prapoch Jirasakulporn

Keywords:

• multiband antenna
• slot antenna
• CPW-fed
• L-slotbowtie stub

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