Broadband Antenna Design with Integrated CB-CPW and Parasitic Patch Structure for WLAN, RFID, Wimax, and 5G Applications

Abstract

This paper presents a novel CB-CPW wideband antenna design. HFSS software simulations reveal that the proposed design has a semicircle ground structure, transmission line, parasitic ground, CPW, relatively low return loss, broadband effect of 3.3377 GHz (4.8337 GHz-8.1714 GHz), double beam capability at 5.2 GHz, and four-beam capability at 5.5 GHz (5.8 GHz). It is compact in size at only 40 mm × 40 mm × 1 mm. A prototype of the proposed antenna was fabricated and measured to validate the simulated design; the results show a bandwidth of 3.38 GHz (3.95 GHz-7.33 GHz), relative bandwidth of 74%, and maximum gain of 3.87 dBi in the range of 5 GHz to 6 GHz; the prototype also achieves two and four-beam performance. Its working frequency covers WLAN (5.15 GHz-5.25 GHz and 5.725 GHz-5.825 GHz), radio frequency identification RFID (5.8 GHz), and global microwave internet access WiMAX (5.25 GHz-5.85 GHz) frequency bands.