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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2023

UWB Circular Fractal Antenna with High Gain for Telecommunication Applications.

Ibrahime Hassan Nejdi, Seddik Bri, Mohamed Marzouk, Sarosh Ahmad, Youssef Rhazi, Mustapha Ait Lafkih, Yawar Ali Sheikh, Adnan Ghaffar, Mousa Hussein

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Ibrahime Hassan NejdiAutomatic and Energy Conversion (AEC) Faculty of Sciences and Technology, BP 523, Beni-Mellal 23000, Morocco.
Seddik BriMaterial and Instrumentations Group, Electrical Engineering Department, ESTM Moulay Ismail University, BP 3103, Meknes 50040, Morocco.
Mohamed MarzoukMicroelectronics, Embedded Systems and Telecommunications (MiSET) Faculty of Sciences and Technology, BP 523, Beni-Mellal 23000, Morocco.
Sarosh AhmadDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Technology, Government College University Faisalabad (GCUF), Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0002-3099-1752
Youssef RhaziMicroelectronics, Embedded Systems and Telecommunications (MiSET) Faculty of Sciences and Technology, BP 523, Beni-Mellal 23000, Morocco.ORCID 0000-0002-6327-8507
Mustapha Ait LafkihAutomatic and Energy Conversion (AEC) Faculty of Sciences and Technology, BP 523, Beni-Mellal 23000, Morocco.
Yawar Ali SheikhDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Technology, Government College University Faisalabad (GCUF), Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0002-1458-3898
Adnan GhaffarDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland 1010, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0002-4548-9765
Mousa HusseinDepartment of Electrical Engineering, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain 15551, United Arab Emirates.ORCID 0000-0003-2186-9883

Funding

United Arab Emirates University 31N458
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The present study proposes a new, highly efficient fractal antenna with ultra-wideband (UWB) characteristics. The proposed patch offers a wide simulated operating band that reaches 8.3 GHz, a simulated gain that varies between 2.47 and 7.73 dB throughout the operating range, and a high simulated efficiency that comes to 98% due to the modifications made to the antenna geometry. The modifications carried out on the antenna are composed of several stages, a circular ring extracted from a circular antenna in which four rings are integrated and, in each ring, four other rings are integrated with a reduction factor of 3/8. To further improve the adaptation of the antenna, a modification of the shape of the ground plane is carried out. In order to test the simulation results, the prototype of the suggested patch was built and tested. The measurement results validate the suggested dual ultra-wideband antenna design approach, which demonstrates good compliance with the simulation. From the measured results, the suggested antenna with a compact volume of 40 × 24.5 × 1.6 mm

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circular ringefficiencyfractal antennalow-costringsUWBWLAN

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PMID37112513
PMCPMC10141080

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