Ricerc@Sapienza

An improved low-profile printed antipodal drop-shaped dipole antenna for wide-band wireless applications is presented. The proposed radiating structure is integrated with a planar metal reflector useful to enhance antenna gain up to 5.5 dBi and the frontto- back ratio up to 21 dB.The geometry of reflector, feeding line, and dipole arms is optimized in order to achieve a broad operating bandwidth useful to meet the requirements of modern wireless communication protocols.

In this paper a novel series feed patch array working in the 5.8 GHz ISM band for healthcare radar monitoring applications has been proposed. The single patch has been opportunely shaped to solve two critical problems of this antenna topology: reduced bandwidth and high Side Lobe Level (SLL). The bandwidth enhancement has been obtained with a dual band structure, resulting from the superposition of two tapered patches with different lengths.