Design of a Tuning Fork type UWB Patch Antenna

In this paper a tuning fork type structure of Ultra Wideband (UWB) antenna is proposed. The antenna offers excellent performance for UWB system, ranging from 3.7 GHz to 13.8 GHz. The antenna exhibits a 10 dB return loss bandwidth over the entire frequency band. The rectangular patch antenna is designed on FR4 substrate and fed with 50 ohms microstrip line by optimizing the width of partial ground, the width and position of the feedline to operate in UWB. The rectangular patch is then modified to tuning fork structure by maintaining UWB frequency range.

Authors:

• A. H. M. Zahirul Alam
• Rafiqul Islam
• Sheroz Khan

Keywords:

• Ultra wide band
• antenna
• microstrip
• partial groundplane.

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