CPW-Fed Wideband Printed Dipole Antenna for Digital TV Applications

• Published in: IEEE transactions on antennas and propagation Vol. 59; no. 12; pp. 4826 - 4830
• Main Authors: Chen, O. T.-C, Chih-Yu Tsai
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY IEEE 01.12.2011; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Antennas; Applied sciences; Bandwidth; Broadcasting. Videocommunications. Audiovisual; coplanar waveguides; Digital TV; Dipole antennas; Exact sciences and technology; Impedance matching; Microstrip antennas; Radiocommunications; Services and terminals of telecommunications; Systems, networks and services of telecommunications; Telecommunications; Telecommunications and information theory; Telemetry. Remote supervision. Telewarning. Remote control; Television; Transmission and modulation (techniques and equipments); High performance; Range finding; Return loss; Coplanar technology; Digital television; Printed antenna; digital TV; Broadband antennas; Dipole antenna; dipole antennas; Digital transmission; Antenna gain; Planar waveguide; Frequency band; Microstrip antennas; Antenna feeds; Radiation pattern; Coplanar waveguides; Antennas
• ISSN: 0018-926X; 1558-2221
• DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2165488

A co-planar waveguide (CPW)-fed wideband printed dipole antenna is developed to fulfill digital TV applications. This antenna is designed with multiple loops to effectively extend the frequency range of operations. Additionally, the parameters associated with the proposed antenna structure are well investigated and adequately determined. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed CPW-fed dipole antenna can operate at a frequency band from 430 MHz to 1180 MHz in which the return loss is better than 10 dB. The measured radiation patterns look like a dipole-type pattern. Particularly, the proposed antenna has a gain ranging from 1.78 to 2.83 dBi. Therefore, the antenna proposed herein is very suitable to various digital TV applications for high-performance receiving.