Abstract the aim of this paper is to design the meander line antenna mla for the. The meander line antenna aims at reducing the physical dimension while maintaining the required electrical. The ieee article shows an antenna that is small in terms of wavelength, but has lots of parallel wires closely spaced. A parametric study on dualband meander line monopole. In the past when the measured copolar radiation pattern of the antenna or the copolar reference radiation pattern c. This paper presents optimization problem formulations to design meanderline antennas for passive uhf radio frequency identification tags based on given specifications of input impedance, frequency range.
In this paper, the meander line antenna mla have been designed to. This inductance is important because electrically small antennas can have a signi. In this paper, they have investigated the parasitic element of the meander line. A meander antenna with reconfigurable polarization for. Solved software for viewing 3d antenna radiation pattern. It is a smaller area, but the radiation resistance, efficiency and. Design of meanderline antennas for radio frequency. Antenna radiation diagram plotter polar plots of measured em emission, with a proper radial axis scaling and span.
A meanderline antenna cannot provide high directivity. Most meander line antennas ive seen are at microwave frequencies and use fairly fat conductors. A microstrip meander line reconfigurable antenna for wireless applications avinash kumar1, rajni2. The design of triple band meander line with two rectangles fig.
Antenna design based on meander line technique to be applied to rfid tag. Meanderline antenna is a truly transformation of monopole antenna. Meander line antenna mla is an electrically small antenna which poses several. Microwave office software and cst is used for simulation designed process. Pdf design and simulation of meander line antenna for. The idea is to fold the antenna element back and forth to make the overall antenna shorter. One standard meanderline antenna and other two nonstandard meander antennas have.
For a given cylinder radius, use the cylinder2strip utility function to calculate the equivalent width. Design and analysis of a folded meander dipole antenna. Download antenna radiation diagram plotter for free. Here, a meander line resonator is placed in between the radiating elements. Microwave office software is used for simulation designed process. The radiation pattern of the meander line antenna was shown in fig. Hello hanaf meander line antennas are normally lambda2 or lambda4 antennas. Miniaturization of printed monopole antenna using double e. This work describes the design and implementation of an antenna based on meander line. Two different designs of meander line antenna are investigated, using conductor line and parasitic. Therefore, in our work, we make a study on the meanderline antenna. Antenna design based on meander line technique to be. Efficiency in bandwidth by using meander line antennas. A tripleband meander line with two rectangular shapes.
The design and performance analysis of compact single meander microstrip antenna at 2. Hi all, i will like to know the basics of designing a meander line antenna. What i will also like to know is how skycross seem to be able to use this design technique to control the radiation. The antenna is center fed and it is symmetric about its origin. Is there any software that enables me view antenna radiation patterns in 3d by simply using the information in say the. This study proposed an effective method to miniaturize the printed monopole antenna using a double eshaped meander line structure that were combination of several slots and a meander line. The radiation pattern of the antenna seems to agree with the quasiisotropic pattern at xzplane. Pdf the effect of conductor line to meander line antenna design. Figure 4 radiation pattern of meander line antenna figure 3 shows the simulation of the designed meander line antenna. The farfield pattern of an antenna may be determined experimentally at an antenna range, or alternatively, the nearfield pattern may be found using a nearfield scanner, and the radiation pattern. Design and analysis of meander microstrip antenna at.
Design of a miniaturized meandered line antenna for uhf. Figure 2, shows the simulation of antenna in hfss software 5. The first resonance of meander dipole antenna is at 200 mhz. In meander line antenna the return loss and radiation patterns were presented. Dual band meander line dipole antenna with harmonic traps. Thus, the polarization reconfigurable meander antenna is. In this section, all the pcb designs will have their layouts using pads 9. A miniaturized 878mhz slotted meander line monopole.
The radiation pattern of a meander line antenna is similar to that of a monopole antenna as illustrated in figure 3c. Meander line antenna mla is the most usage of antenna that use in lte. A page showing some of the antenna modeling software out there a person can use to help model an antenna for performance on many levels. The microwave office software is used designing antennas with a small size and. The design of an effective meanderline antenna for rfid purposes requires balancing. Radiation efficiency of meander line antenna is good as compare to conventional half and quarter wavelength antennas. Figure 2 is the far field radiation pattern and 3d flyover view of a 4x4 meander dipole with four meanders on each arm.
For the purpose of comparing the achievable size reduction, the antenna performance without the meander line slot antenna a was firstly. What is meander line antenna meander line patch antenna. In order to determine the performance of varying design parameters on impedance, resonance frequency, radiation pattern, etc. A microstrip meander line reconfigurable antenna for. Qantenna is able to show antennas in a 3d plot, and calculate its radiattion pattern. The dipolemeander class creates a meander dipole antenna with four dipoles.
Figure 3 presents the reflection coefficient of the proposed antenna in the frequency range 03 ghz. Pdf dual band meander line dipole antenna with harmonic traps is presented in this paper. Soh were designed a dual beam meander line antenna. Design of meander line antenna for operating frequency of. The implementation was validated with classical antenna simulation software. Design, fabrication, and characterization of a dual. Except for the dipole being shorter, the pattern looks the same as a dipole. However, the uhf tag antenna has a narrow bandwidth performance that involves a ground plane. Meander line antenna been designed to operate at 2. Design and simulation of meander line antenna for wireless. The study of different impedance meander line for microstrip. Create meander dipole antenna matlab mathworks italia.
Figure 3 from a parametric study on dualband meander line. It is of extreme important for the stability of the antenna performance to have near constant gain over the entire. The effect of conductor line to meander line antenna. This can bea straight trace inverted f, type trace. The coupling element and meander line antenna affect size of antenna and radiation efficiency in antenna structure, it has been introduced in background 36. The simulations results are obtained by using electromagnetic simulation software called feko. Design and analysis of a folded meander dipole antenna using the mininec program pedro a. Farfield radiation pattern for mla with modified line width. Antenna design calculators category is a curation of 83 web resources on, parallel square conductor transmission line calculator, magnetic loop excel sheet, analysis of antenna mast strength and. This paper proposes an electrically two type of smallsize antenna that is based on the meander antenna structure that.
Pdf design and simulation of meander line antenna for lte. In order to meet the demand of developing communication equipment the research of antennas focuses on some particular aspect, for instance. Antenna design based on meander line technique to be applied to. Measured results display that the proposed antenna produces omnidirectional radiation pattern of. An inductor model for analyzing the performance of printed. There is also an analysis of radiation pattern, gain of the antenna, directivity of the antenna, electric far field. Size reduction and bandwidth enhancement of aperture. Analysis and design of meander line dipole antennas. Design of planar meander line antenna ieee conference.
The effect of conductor line to meander line antenna design. A simple analytic formula, found in the literature for calculating the resonant frequency of a meander line dipole. By inserting the meander line resonator between the patch antennas with the edgetoedge distance less than 18. A return loss of 32db at 80 ghz and 26db at ghz was obtained for the. A double sided meandered line dipole antenna with tapered. Design of meander slotted patch antenna for wireless.
These sections are followed by a conclusion in section iv. A large ground plane is necessary to make the antenna efficient, but the radiation pattern is essentially omnidirectional. The study of meander line for microstrip and planar design ieee. This paper studies the dualband monopole antenna based on meander line structure for global system for mobile communications gsm band applications, which is also has the potential to be used for rf. A more compact design of a meander line antenna was designed to operate at 2. Design and simulation of meander line antenna for lte communications based on defected ground structure. The antenna is fabricated on a doublesided fr4 printed circuit board using an etching technique. A miniaturized 878mhz slotted meander line monopole antenna for ultra high frequency applications. In any illustration, the sketch drawn to represent the radiation of an antenna is its radiation. Radiation is the term used to represent the emission or reception of wave front at the antenna, specifying its strength. The radiation pattern shows how antennas distribute energy in space 20. Then the design has been tested with the advantest network analyzer. Design, fabrication, and characterization of a dualbandelectrically small meanderline monopole antenna for wireless communications.
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