Two Small Antenna Designs for Ultra-Wideband Wireless Systems

Abstract

This chapter focuses on designing small antennas used by Ultra Wideband (UWB) wireless systems. The study has been taken from the conventional rectangular manuscript patch antenna to miniaturize the size of used antenna to be more suitable for future 5G system applications. These applications are dealing with high data transmission rates over a very large spread spectrum frequency (3.1–10.6 GHz), so that, many challenges are provided in the antenna design. The main objective of this research is to design, and analyze two small manuscript patch antennas to satisfy UWB technology requirements. Several techniques were used to optimize the UWB bandwidth performance such as radiator dimensions, planar ground plane, and unprinted gaps between ground plane and radiators. Therefore, this work introduces two designs of microstrip-fed, small, and low profile which are called ax-shaped and socket-shaped patch antennas. It has been demonstrated numerically that the proposed antennas are suitable for UWB systems. They can provide satisfactory frequency domain performance (less than −10 dB return loss), including ultra-wide bandwidth with nearly omni-directional radiation patterns, and relatively good current density over the radiator parts of the proposed antenna designs.