Design of an ultrawideband ring patch using coplanar waveguide technology for underground mining communications
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Kamil, A.; Coulibaly, Y.; Adnane, H.; Nedil, M.; Denidni, T. A.
- Source
- 2011 24th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering(CCECE) Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2011 24th Canadian Conference on. :000845-000848 May, 2011
- Subject
- Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Antenna measurements
Loss measurement
Bandwidth
Frequency measurement
Impedance
Antenna radiation patterns
Ultra wideband Antenna
Coplanar Waveguide Technology
Ring Antenna
- Language
- ISSN
- 0840-7789
In this paper, we present a new ultra wideband (UWB) antenna for UWB applications in underground mining environments. The proposed antenna is designed to operate from 3.1 to 10.6 GHz. It consists of a ring patch with a single layer metallic structure. The antenna is a printed-circuit patch using coplanar waveguide technology (CPW). The shape and the dimensions of the antenna are optimized to achieve a bandwidth of 124% and hence cover a frequency range from 2.8 GHz to 12 GHz. Experimental investigations are presented, and the obtained results confirm the antenna performances. With such characteristics, the antenna may find application in underground mining communications.