Bandwidth enhancement of a printed wide-slot antenna with small slots

In this paper, four printed wide-slot antenna fed by a microstrip line with a polygonal slot for bandwidth enhancement is proposed and experimentally studied. One of these antennas is fabricated and measured. Impedance, radiation and gaincharacteristics of this antenna are presented and discussed. From experimental results, the measured impedance bandwidth, defined by 10-dB return loss, can reach an operating bandwidth of 4.03 GHz at operating frequencies from approximately 1.87 to 5.90 GHz.

Bandwidth enhancement; Microstrip-line-fed antennas; Printed slot antennas