Ultra-wideband microstrip folded antenna for wireless LAN, 5G and Internet of Things applications
Utkarsh Pandey, Parulpreet Singh, Raghvendra Singh, Vivek Kumar, Kanad Ray, Saurav Mallik, Haya Mesfer Alshahrani, E. Elshiekh, Mohamed Abbas, Ben Othman Soufiene
Abstract
This paper presents an ultra-wideband (UWB) microstrip antenna with a simple structure operating at 2.2-6 GHz bandwidth. The proposed antenna has been demonstrated for its suitability in UWB and multi-band applications, such as wireless local area network (WLAN), Wi-Fi, 5G, Internet of Things (IoT), etc. The antenna is shown to use a simple folded dipole antenna structure demonstrating an omnidirectional radiation pattern of gain 0.8 to 6 dBi throughout the frequency band. The antenna has strong gain at 2.4, 3.5 and 5.5 GHz. The measured results are shown to have a good agreement with the simulated results.