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A locally conformal FDTD analysis of a thin printed antenna for wideband wireless applications. (English) Zbl 1220.78056

Summary: A compact wideband planar-printed antenna for wireless communications is presented. A suitable shape of the antenna arms and a proper tapering of the feeding line are employed to achieve an impedance bandwidth of more than 10GHz useful to meet the requirements of several wireless communication standards. An enhanced locally conformal finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) numerical procedure, based on a suitable normalization of the electromagnetic field-related quantities together with a near-to-far-field transformation, is developed to perform the full-wave analysis of the radiating structure. The proposed numerical procedure allows the accurate evaluation of the electromagnetic field distribution from the FDTD domain up to the far-field region, achieving a reduced computational burden compared with conventional FDTD formulations. Using the proposed technique, the electromagnetic and circuital behaviour of the antenna is then derived and analyzed in detail. Numerical results concerning the antenna parameters are in good agreement with experimental measurements.

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78A50 Antennas, waveguides in optics and electromagnetic theory
78M20 Finite difference methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory
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