A Novel Transparent TSA for Laptop and UWB Applications

A novel transparent Tapered Slot Antenna is proposed in this paper. Since the approval by the FCC in 2002, much research has been undertaken on UWB especially for wireless communications. Often times especially for devices where internet services are required, UWB is complemented with the 2.4GHz WLAN service like in Laptops or notebooks instead of being flltered out. In this paper, a transparent Tapered Slot Antenna (TSA) covering the frequency range from 2.1GHz to 10.8GHz is designed and fabricated using AgHT-8 for use in Laptop applications. The antenna provides su-cient gain, reasonable e-ciency and a good return loss.

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