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Multiband and Wideband Antennas

 
 
A large number of electronic devices exploits multiple wireless standards in modern mobile applications. The dimensions of such products (e.g., mobile handsets) are becoming smaller and smaller following the users’ needs and thanks to the progress of the modern integrated circuit technology. In this framework, it is usually necessary to integrate the RF-part (i.e., the different wireless interfaces) in only one antenna, thus yielding to multi-standard antennas. The design of these radiating systems is highly challenging since a high degree of miniaturization is also required.
In such a framework, fractal shapes have been proposed as a suitable solution for both miniaturization and multi-band issues, while spline-based shapes have been demonstrated very good Ultra-Wideband (UWB) properties.
   
Mobile handsets, smartphones, multi-purpose portable devices

Multiband S11 behaviour
Wideband S11 behaviour
   

 

 
 
Members of the ELEDIA Research Center have developed several cutting edge design approaches for the synthesis of miniaturized perturbed fractal multi-band and spline UWB antennas, based on the exploitation of Evolutionary Optimization, whose capability to deal with electromagnetic problems has been widely demonstrated. This kind of approach enables the formulation of the synthesis problem in terms of an optimization one, which is usually casted either in the time or in the frequency domain (depending on the specific application), where a set of unknown representative geometrical descriptors are tuned through an iterative process aimed at fitting suitable requirements/constraints on the electrical behavior in the desired band(s). The features of the arising designs have been also widely demonstrated through the fabrication and measurement of printed antenna prototypes, which is done in the ELEDIA Research Center facilities.
Fractal-based multi-band geometry
Spline-based UWB geometry

Keywords: Multi-band Antennas, UWB Antennas, Fractal, Spline, Mobile Handsets, Smartphones, Portable Devices, Evolutionary Design


See Also
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