Badrul Hisham Ahmad

Design of broadband single polarized antenna

In practical wireless communication application, bandwidth enhancement becomes one of the major design considerations. At the same time, circular polarized (CP) antenna received much attention for the applications of modern wireless communication system when compared to linear polarized (LP) antenna. This is because CP antenna can reduce the multipath effect. Hence, broadband antenna with operating frequency at 2.4GHz for WLAN application is proposed. The proposed antenna is done by using L-probe amendment with rectangular patch. The rectangular patch and copper ground plane is separated with 10mm air gap. This approach is used to enhance the bandwidth and the gain of the proposed antenna. The bandwidth of the designed antenna is more than 200MHz which meet broadband application. The return loss for the antenna is below -10dB to achieved 90% matching efficiency. The position of L-probe feed is altered in order to obtained different polarizations. The broadband antenna had been designed and simulated by us...

Design of dual band FSS by using quadruple L-slot technique

This paper presents a new design of dual band frequency selective surface (FSS) for band pass microwave transmission application. FSS can be used on energy saving glass to improve the transmission of wireless communication signals through the glass. The microwave signal will be attenuate when propagate throughout the different structure such as building. Therefore, some of the wireless communication system cannot be used in the optimum performance. The aim of this paper is designed, simulated and analyzed the new dual band FSS structure for microwave transmission. This design is based on a quadruple L slot combined with cross slot to produce pass band at 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz. The vertical of pair inverse L slot is used as the band pass for the frequency of 2.4GHz. While, the horizontal of pair inverse L slot is used as the band pass at frequency 900MHz. This design is simulated and analyzed by using Computer Simulation Technology (CST) Microwave Studio (MWS) software. The characteristics of the transmissio...

The investigation of single, dual and tri-band frequency selective surface

The single, dual and tri-band Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) design structure is designed and simulated by using CST Microwave Studio software. The reflection (S11) and transmission (S21) of the design FSS structure is analyzed based on the six types of configuration that have been set up. All configurations are simulated with the same size of the FSS design structure. The hybrid material (FR4 and glass) affects the transmission and reflection signals of the FSS which led to the compact structure. The measurement results are agreed for all FSS design structures but the difference is due to the transmission losses.

Investigation of the monopole antenna performance on hybrid material substrate

In the current telecommunication system, more applications such as GPS and video conferencing which need higher data rate has been discovered. In order to provide higher data rate, wider system bandwidth is needed for transferring data in a shorter time. Thus, an antenna which can provide wide bandwidth is significant to cover the desired system bandwidth. Recent researches also show that the using of hybrid substrate can improve the antenna performance. This paper investigates the monopole antenna performance on hybrid material substrate. The monopole antenna has been simulated in Computer Simulation Technology (CST) software in open space condition to investigate the antenna performance in resonant frequency, bandwidth, return loss, gain, directivity, and efficiency. Investigation shows that the increment of dielectric constant of hybrid material substrate, ɛr2 increases the return loss of frequency band from 2.9-6.6GHz without affecting the operating bandwidth. Notably, the increment of ɛr2 also brough...