Design of Hexagonal Antenna using Meander Fractal Geometry for Wideband Applications

Volume 7 Issue 1 April - June 2018

Research Paper

Design of Hexagonal Antenna using Meander Fractal Geometry for Wideband Applications

Sumeet Singh Bhatia*, Harpreet Kaur**, Shashi B. Rana***

* Research Scholar, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Yadavindra College of Engineering, Punjabi University, Bathinda, Punjab, India.

** PG Scholar, Department of Communication Engineering, GNDU, Regional Campus, Gurdaspur, Punjab, India.

*** Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Guru Nanak Dev University Regional Campus Gurdaspur, Punjab, India.

Bhatia, S. S., Kaur, H., Rana, S. B. (2018). Design of Hexagonal Antenna using Meander Fractal Geometry for Wideband Applications. i-manager's Journal on Wireless Communication Networks, 7(1), 29-39. https://doi.org/10.26634/jwcn.7.1.15369

Abstract

A design of hexagonal antenna using Meander fractal geometry for wideband applications is investigated and presented in this paper. Partial ground plane is used in the proposed design, which is further modified by varying its length from 7mm to 10mm and it is fed by a microstrip transmission line whose width is also varied from 1mm to 1.8mm, for achieving the wideband characteristics. The overall size of proposed antenna is 44.92 × 45mm2; it operates over the frequency ranges of 2.89 – 6.09 GHz and 7.35 – 8.65 GHz, suitable for WiMAX (3.4 – 3.69 GHz), WLAN (5.15 – 5.35 GHz and 5.72 – 5.82 GHz), point to point high speed wireless communication (5.925 – 8.5 GHz) and X-band for satellite communications (7.25 – 8.39 GHz). Reasonable agreement has been reported between the simulated and measured results. Proposed antenna shows the omnidirectional and dipole-like radiation pattern at the various frequency bands and also shows the good value of gain throughout the operating frequency range. In addition, the effects of the length of partial ground plane and the width of transmission line on the performance of proposed antenna is analyzed and discussed in detail.