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This paper presents a compact Multiband hybrid fractal antenna designed for mobile wireless applications it has planar structure and suitable for mobile applications at low cost. The proposed antenna structure is obtained by integrating a Koch curve and Minkowski curve. It exhibits multiband behavior, acceptable values of return loss, VSWR and gain in-spite of its compact size and less complexity. The proposed antenna design has been examined up to 2nd iteration of the new fractal geometry. The simulated results exhibited seven bands of operation covering some important frequency bands like GPS (L1 = 1227.60 MHz), bluetooth (2.41–2.49 GHz) of ISM band, WLAN 802.11 a/b (5.15–5.35 GHz) and other bands covers applications like mobile/fixed satellite and aeronautical navigation (3.876–4.375, 6.6188–7.0045, 7.9698–8.3373 and 9.1648–9.6214 GHz). Proposed antenna is designed by using scripting method of HFSS using MATLAB.
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Kumar, Y., Singh, S. A Compact Multiband Hybrid Fractal Antenna for Multistandard Mobile Wireless Applications. Wireless Pers Commun 84, 57–67 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-015-2593-x
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