Compact printed monopole antenna on liquid crystal polymer (LCP) for EWB applications

A compact tapered CPW-fed hollowed printed monopole antenna on the liquid crystal polymer (LCP) substrate with an extremely wide bandwidth (EWB) is introduced. The simulated results demonstrate that this antenna achieves an impedance bandwidth from 0.435 GHz to 14.52 GHz (33:1) for VSWRles2, and exhibits a nearly omnidirectional radiation pattern, while its area is only about 0.18 lambda1times0.13 lambda1, where lambda1 is the wavelength of the lowest operating frequency.

[1]  C.P. Wong,et al.  Liquid crystal polymers (LCP) for high performance SOP applications , 2002, 2002 Proceedings. 8th International Advanced Packaging Materials Symposium (Cat. No.02TH8617).

[2]  G. Ponchak,et al.  Characterization of liquid crystal polymer (LCP) material and transmission lines on LCP substrates from 30 to 110 GHz , 2004, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques.

[3]  J. Papapolymerou,et al.  Liquid Crystal polymer (LCP): a new organic material for the development of multilayer dual-frequency/dual-polarization flexible antenna arrays , 2005, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.

[4]  Li Yang,et al.  Design of a novel high-efficiency UHF RFID antenna on flexible LCP substrate with high read-range capability , 2006, 2006 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium.

[5]  J. Papapolymerou,et al.  Conformal double exponentially tapered slot antenna (DETSA) on LCP for UWB applications , 2006, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.

[6]  S. Nikolaou,et al.  Microwave tumor detection using a flexible UWB elliptical slot antenna with a tuning uneven U-shape stub on LCP , 2007, 2007 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium.

[7]  Shun-Shi Zhong,et al.  Compact hollowed printed monopole antenna with extremely wide bandwidth , 2007 .

[8]  S. Bhattacharya,et al.  Liquid Crystal Polymer (LCP): The ultimate solution for low-cost RF flexible electronics and antennas , 2007, 2007 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium.

[9]  Guo-Yu Wang,et al.  Compact printed monopole antenna with 24:1 impedance bandwidth , 2008 .